{"id":990682,"date":"2026-02-09T08:31:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T03:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=990682"},"modified":"2026-02-09T08:48:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T03:18:16","slug":"investors-chase-cheaper-smaller-companies-as-big-techs-ai-plans-spook-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/09\/investors-chase-cheaper-smaller-companies-as-big-techs-ai-plans-spook-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"Investors chase cheaper, smaller companies as Big Tech&#8217;s AI plans spook markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investors are turning to cheaper, smaller companies while reassessing how \u200dmuch risk they are willing to take owning volatile assets after market whipsaws pounded some sectors and assets. Wariness and risk aversion have swept through some corners of the market that have shone the \u2060brightest in recent years, accompanied by gains in other areas, as investors rotate their holdings. For example, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, a benchmark designed to track industrial companies, hit a record high on Friday even as software stocks lost $1 trillion over the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investors are turning to cheaper, smaller companies while reassessing how \u200dmuch risk they are willing to take owning volatile assets after market whipsaws pounded some sectors and assets. Wariness and risk aversion have swept through some corners of the market that have shone the \u2060brightest in recent years, accompanied by gains in other areas, as investors rotate their holdings. For example, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, a benchmark designed to track industrial companies, hit a record high on Friday even as software stocks lost $1 trillion over the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}