Big Tech stocks are treading water after $1 trillion sell-off week

As of 6:12 a.m. ET, Oracle was up 1.5% and Microsoft had edged 0.8% higher. Meta was down 0.3% and Amazon was down 0.1%. Alphabet fell 0.6% and Nvidia was down around 1% after rebounding 7.9% on Friday.

The market grew jittery last week after expenditure outlooks continued to shoot through the roof in Big Tech earnings last week, as companies doubled down on AI bets.

Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft and Meta reported a combined capital expenditure of about $120 billion in the fourth quarter alone. The figure could hit $660 billion in 2026, the Financial Times reported, higher than the gross domestic product of countries like the United Arab Emirates, Singapore and Israel.

Cloud companies’ growing margins come alongside “potential stock volatility” amid macro headwinds, said Justin Post, a research analyst at Bank of America Securities, in a note on Monday.

“But management teams seem confident in their ability to forecast demand and that capacity will be fully utilized in 2026,” he added.