{"id":184296,"date":"2026-02-03T23:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T04:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/asian-software-stocks-plunge-after-u-s-peers-decline-on-fears-over-ai-led-disruption\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T00:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T05:35:09","slug":"asian-software-stocks-plunge-after-u-s-peers-decline-on-fears-over-ai-led-disruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/asian-software-stocks-plunge-after-u-s-peers-decline-on-fears-over-ai-led-disruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian software stocks plunge after U.S. peers decline on fears over AI-led disruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/02\/04\/software-stocks-plunge-us-ai-disruption.html\">Asian software stocks plunge after U.S. peers decline on fears over AI-led disruption<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/02\/04\/software-stocks-plunge-us-ai-disruption.html\">https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/02\/04\/software-stocks-plunge-us-ai-disruption.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-03 23:58:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnbc.com\">www.cnbc.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wall Street&#8217;s concerns over AI-driven disruption affecting software companies impacted Asian tech stocks, mirroring declines in U.S. peers.<\/li>\n<li>Japanese software companies TIS, Trend Micro, and NS Solutions led the declines in Asia with drops over 15%, 8%, and nearly 7%, respectively.<\/li>\n<li>IT companies in India also saw drops, with the Nifty IT index falling nearly 6%, and prominent firms like Tata Consultancy Services and Infosys dropping 5.8% and 6.2%.<\/li>\n<li>Chinese software companies, including Kingdee International Software and Tencent, experienced significant declines, reflecting broader investor concerns about AI&#8217;s impact on software sectors.<\/li>\n<li>Investors are reassessing the valuation of software stocks due to the competitive threat posed by AI tools introduced by companies like Anthropic.<\/li>\n<li>Analysts suggest that for the software sector to recover, companies need to demonstrate AI&#8217;s potential as a growth catalyst rather than just a disruption risk, which may take time.<\/li>\n<li>In the U.S., shares of companies such as ServiceNow, Salesforce, and Intuit dropped sharply, contributing to the Nasdaq Composite\u2019s decline of 1.4% on Tuesday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asian software stocks plunge after U.S. peers decline on fears over AI-led disruption https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/02\/04\/software-stocks-plunge-us-ai-disruption.html Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":184297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108246307-1767025794257-gettyimages-2236521867-syn08393.jpeg?v=1767025847&w=1920&h=1080","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184298,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184296\/revisions\/184298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}