Nvidia CEO Loses Stock Kingmaker Status as Touts Fall Flat
By and Carmen Reinicke
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Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang is losing his midas touch in the stock market.
A year ago, when the euphoria about artificial intelligence was in full force, Huang's name dropping of customers and partners at the chipmaker's GTC conference sparked a rally in a number of the stocks, including Dell Technologies Inc. and Synopsys Inc. But similar mentions in his keynote address on Tuesday were met with shrugs.
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