Wall St ends lower as megacaps highlight AI costs
Meta Platforms, Microsoft drag megacaps lower
Amazon and Apple post quarterly revenue beat
Estee Lauder shares drop to record low
September PCE data in line with estimates
Indexes down: Dow 0.9%, S&P 1.86%, Nasdaq 2.76%
Updates post close
By Abigail Summerville
Oct 31 (Reuters) - All three U.S. stock indexes closed loweron Thursday after Microsoft and Meta Platforms highlighted growing artificial intelligencecosts that could hit their earnings, curbingenthusiasm for megacaps that have fueledthe market rally this year.
Shares of Facebook-owner Meta PlatformsMETA.O slipped 4.1% and MicrosoftMSFT.O fell 6%, despiteboth companies beating earnings estimates in results reported after the bell on Wednesday.
Among otherso-called Magnificent Seven megacap technology companies, Amazon.com AMZN.O and Apple AAPL.O reported quarterly resultsafter the market close. Amazonbeat revenue estimates, boosted by strong growth in its cloud services unit. Apple alsobeat revenue and profit expectations as iPhone sales grew.
Shares ofAlphabet GOOGL.O, which reported on Tuesday, fell 1.9%.
"You had three of the Magnificent Seven all say they basically have open-ended budgets for AI spend and investors don't like to hear that," said Carol Schleif, chief investment officer at BMO Family Office.
"The intermediate and longer-term implications of this buildout are really important for U.S. long-term growth and long-term productivity. ... In the short run, investors are asking where's the profit from it?"
Microsoft and Meta both said capital expenses were growing due to AI investments, which could reduce profitability.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI fell 378.08 points, or 0.90%, to 41,763.46. The S&P 500 .SPX lost 108.22 points, or 1.86%, at 5,705.45 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC dropped 512.78 points, or 2.76%, to 18,095.15.
The Personal Consumption Expenditures price index, the Federal Reserve's preferred inflation metric, rose 0.2% in September, in line with economists' expectations. However, the core figure was 2.7% year-over-year, slightly abovethe 2.6% forecast, while consumer spending increased a little more than expected.
After the data, traders stuck to bets for a 25-basis-point rate reduction in the Fed's Nov. 6-7meeting.
"We do expect them to cut by a quarter next week because there is nothing in the data this week that should throw them off of that," Schleif said.
Information technology .SPLRCT led declines among sectors, but upbeat results from ConocoPhillips COP.N and Entergy ETR.N lifted energy .SPNY and utilities .SPLRCU.
An index of chip stocks .SOX fell 4%,led by a 17.4% plunge inMonolithic Power Systems MPWR.O shares after the maker of power control products and semiconductors used in vehicles reportedits results. Nvidia NVDA.O also dropped 4.7%.
The VIX .VIX, Wall Street's "fear gauge," ticked up asinvestors braced for more volatility in the next few weeks from corporate results and the Nov. 5U.S. presidential election followed by the Fed's policy-setting meeting.
Estee Lauder EL.N posted itsworst day on record, dropping 20.9% afterthe cosmetics company withdrew its 2025 annual forecasts.
Shares of Uber Technologies UBER.N fell 9.3% afterthe ride-hailing company forecast fourth-quarter gross bookings below expectations.
Intel INTC.Oreported earnings after the close that were weighed down by impairment and restructuring charges.
Declining issues outnumbered advancers by a 2.66-to-1 ratio on the NYSE. There were 106 new highs and 97 new lows on the NYSE.
The S&P 500 posted 24 new 52-week highs and nine new lows, while the Nasdaq Composite recorded 59 new highs and 159 new lows.
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Reporting by Abigail Summerville in New York; Editing by Richard Chang
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