Stocks rose Friday as Apple led a broad rally following a strong investor reaction to its quarterly earnings report and the market closes out a whirlwind week highlighted by Nvidia’s record-breaking losses in reaction to China’s DeepSeek cheaper AI model and a flurry of earnings reports.

Since the start of 2023, Nvidia 's (NASDAQ: NVDA) stock has gained an astronomical 906% as of the time of writing. It's also right around its all-time high right now, but these two facts may scare some investors off. The common thought is, "Nvidia has risen so much already; how can it increase more?"

By Sinéad Carew, Amanda Cooper, Ankur Banerjee NEW YORK/LONDON/SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Investors sold technology stocks across the globe on Monday as they worried that the emergence of a low-cost Chinese artificial intelligence model would threaten the dominance of current AI leaders like Nvidia,