The Magnificent Seven no longer trades as one basket.
AI-lab safety warnings, a 5% 10-year yield, and diverging cash-flow regimes now send chips, platforms, software, and consumer-hardware names in opposite directions within the same week.
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Fundamentals have decoupled inside the basket, with Tesla's collapsing 1.4% operating margin the exact inverse of Nvidia's 66.2% while both sit in the same index.
The Warsh hike sent members of the same basket in opposite directions by funding model and margin profile — diverging cash-flow regimes, not one correlated AI trade.
Nvidia touched a record $237 while Micron, Intel, and Qualcomm sat 11–26% below their highs in the same week — the chip complex now trades as opposing baskets rather than one trade.