Tuesday 29 September 2026 5:22 pm  |  Updated:  Monday 28 September 2026 6:36 pm

AI doom headlines aren’t spooking all investors

By: Carl Hazeley

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Retail investors’ response to AI doom headlines disproves the common notion that they move as a herd, writes Finimize CEO Carl Hazeley in today’s Notebook

Retail investors steady on AI

Earlier this month, AI bosses called for a slowdown. We saw markets do what markets do: react.

The stocks at the heart of the story took a beating. Nvidia fell more than three per cent, AMD dropped five per cent and the semiconductor index dropped almost six per cent. One week later the Nasdaq was back at a record high. Reading those headlines might give the most seasoned investors whiplash.

But as the markets – and the media – were digesting the latest AI scare, retail investors appear to have been doing what they often do: staying steady.

Our latest Modern Investor Pulse, based on 2,488 retail investors, was in the field as the slowdown news broke and gathered pace, so it’s a........

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