What’s News in Markets: Bubble Fears, AI Slop, Toilet Stocks

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  Hey, listeners.

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  It's Saturday, May 9th.

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  I'm Imani Moise for The Wall Street Journal.

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  And this is What's News in Markets, our look at the biggest stock moves of the week and the news that drove them.

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  Let's dive in. Investors spent this week chasing the next phase of the AI boom.

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  But analysts can't decide whether the AI trade looks more like the future or 1999.

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  The S&P 500 and Nasdaq both climbed to fresh records.

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  Tech stocks surged, software companies staged a comeback,

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  and investors poured into everything from cybersecurity firms to Japanese toilet makers.

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  The Nasdaq led the way, rising 4.5% over the week, while the S&P 500 grew 2.3%.

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  The Dow was up 0.2%.

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  Tech stocks stole the show this week, surging 7%, making it the best-performing corner of the S&P 500 by a mile.

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  The rally extended far beyond just the magnificent 7,

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  as a wide range of tech companies from Uber to Pinterest reported better-than-expected earnings.

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  Even software stocks got a boost, after being beaten down in recent weeks due to fears that their products

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  would eventually be replaced by AI.

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  Datadog was a top performer in the S&P this week.

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