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AI BUBBLE BURSTING? Broadcom & CrowdStrike Shock The Market!

Channel: Verified Investing Published: 2026-06-04 08:28
Verified Investing

Gareth Soloway argues the market may be starting to unwind an AI bubble after Broadcom’s earnings miss and lack of raised guidance triggered a sharp selloff across semis and AI-related names. He frames the move as both a technical break and a possible liquidity/rotation event, while emphasizing specific chart levels for trading the pullback.

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Detailed summary

Gareth Soloway opens by framing the session around a major market reset in AI-linked stocks, especially after Broadcom’s earnings. His core thesis is not that the bubble is definitively over, but that Broadcom may be the first meaningful crack in an overcrowded AI trade that had been priced for unlimited demand and rising margins. He says Broadcom “missed fractionally on revenue” and, more importantly, “did not raise guidance,” which he treats as an alarm bell for the whole semiconductor complex. He leans heavily on technical analysis to translate that thesis into action. On Broadcom, he highlights a failed breakout against a trend line he had previously identified, noting that the stock opened above resistance and still could not hold it, then collapsed to roughly 406 from 480. …

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Main takeaways

  1. Broadcom’s earnings miss and lack of raised guidance are treated as the first major crack in the AI/semiconductor trade.
  2. Soloway sees the move as both a technical breakdown and a possible sentiment shift, but he stops short of calling the bubble definitively burst.
  3. He gives explicit downside levels on Broadcom, S&P futures, QQQ, CrowdStrike, Ciena, PVH, and F5 for day trading and swing trading.
  4. Rotation is a key idea: weakness in semis/AI may be accompanied by strength in Microsoft, gold, silver, and potentially Bitcoin.
  5. Friday’s jobs report is a near-term catalyst that could confirm or offset today’s selloff.
  6. He thinks upcoming mega-IPOs may be absorbing liquidity and helping explain why markets stayed elevated so far.

Market read by horizon

Short term

Near-term setup looks risk-off for semis and AI names after Broadcom; watch whether key index levels hold into the close and whether Friday’s jobs report extends the selloff. Tactical traders should expect violent bounces and use the cited support zones rather than chasing weakness blindly.

  • Broadcom’s post-earnings break is the immediate catalyst; he expects volatility and possible further downside in semis today.
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  • Watch Broadcom at 395, then 380–381, with 350–355 as a deeper swing-trade zone.
  • S&P futures need to hold 7,500; a close below that level would be a bearish signal into next week.
Mid term

Over the next several weeks, the market likely decides whether this is a one-off earnings shock or the start of a broader AI valuation reset. Confirmation would come from follow-through weakness in semis and failed attempts to reclaim the broken trend lines; otherwise, the move may stay contained to rotation.

  • Over the next several weeks, he expects the market to decide whether Broadcom was an isolated miss or the start of a broader AI valuation reset.
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  • If semis keep failing on earnings and guidance, the AI complex likely enters a correction phase rather than another quick dip-buy.
  • He thinks rotation could favor megacap software and defensive names if money keeps moving out of high-beta AI leadership.
Long term

Structurally, the video argues that AI leadership may have been vulnerable to bubble dynamics all along, with price and guidance expectations outrunning fundamentals. If that proves right, the durable regime shift would be from broad momentum chasing to a more selective market where liquidity and earnings discipline matter again.

  • The lasting issue is whether AI leadership was a genuine secular growth regime or a classic valuation bubble driven by unlimited-demand assumptions.
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  • If the current weakness spreads, it could mark a broader regime change from momentum-led, high-multiple semis to a more selective market environment.
  • He believes chart discipline is the durable edge: regardless of the narrative, price and trend determine whether the AI story remains investable.
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Key claims (8)

BEARISH AI bubble Broadcom

Broadcom’s earnings miss and unchanged guidance may be the first crack in the AI bubble.

He directly links Broadcom’s report to a possible broader AI sector turning point.

BULLISH technical levels Broadcom

Broadcom’s sharp drop is creating tradable support zones at 395, 380–381, and 350–355.

He gives explicit chart levels for day trades and swing trades.

BEARISH market trend S&P futures

The S&P 500 is vulnerable unless 7,500 holds on a closing basis.

He says a close below 7,500 likely leads to more downside next week.

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Assets discussed (14)

Broadcom — AVGO
BEARISH stock

He says earnings missed fractionally on revenue and guidance was not raised, triggering a more than 15% drop and signaling possible AI bubble cracks.

S&P 500 futures — ES
BEARISH index

He says the futures are chopping after the earnings selloff and are setting up for another down day, with 7,500 as a key pivot.

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Where this transcript pushes against consensus

  • He treats Broadcom’s report as a potential market-wide turning point, but the evidence shown is still largely one-session price action rather than confirmed multi-day follow-through.
  • The claim that upcoming SpaceX/Anthropic/OpenAI IPOs are already influencing market behavior is speculative and not directly evidenced in the transcript.
  • He infers broader consumer weakness from PVH’s drop, but a single retailer miss is thin evidence for a macro demand slowdown.
  • The idea that institutions may be holding markets up until IPOs arrive is plausible but unsupported beyond his interpretation.
  • He alternates between saying the AI bubble may be popping and saying it may only be a rotation, so the thesis remains intentionally ambiguous.

Topics

AI bubbleBroadcom earningssemiconductor sellofftechnical analysismarket rotationgold safe havenBitcoin bounceCrowdStrike earningsS&P 500 trend lineliquidity and IPOs

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