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Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 was down 0.9%, or 82.8 points, to 9,064 by 11:58am AEDT on Friday, Sharecafe reports. The outlet says investors were weighing Jensen Huang’s reported resignation from Nvidia.

Nine of the index’s 11 sectors were in the red, including technology, mining and real estate. Sharecafe also points to scrutiny of major banks at a parliamentary committee as a possible factor in financial-sector weakness. It’s a market snapshot, not proof that Nvidia news alone drove the fall. But it shows how a leadership change at a company central to AI computing can travel well beyond the chip sector.

Discuss: When a major AI company’s leadership news moves wider markets, how much should investors read into one day’s price action?

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