Tech Pressures European Stocks

2026-09-14 15:57 By Andre Joaquim 1 min. read

European stocks closed sharply lower on Monday amid another jump in sovereign yields and fresh concerns that risks to AI safety could hamper investment in hardware.

The Euro STOXX 50 fell 1.1% to 6,257 and the STOXX Europe 600 dropped 0.5% to 636.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a slowdown on the development of frontier AI models to prevent a scenario where the loss of control in agents could have adverse effects on society, prompting endorsements from rivals OpenAI and xAI.

The possibility of added guardrails on AI development pressured stocks for chip manufacturers and other companies in the AI infrastructure sector.

ASML and Infineon sank 6.3% and 7.5%, respectively, while Schneider Electric lost 6.8% and Siemens Energy plummeted 8.5%.

Meanwhile, banks also closed sharply lower as more escalation in the Middle East lifted oil and gas prices and worsened the inflation outlook in the Eurozone.

Santander, BBVA, Intesa Sanpaolo, and Deutsche Bank dropped between 2% and 1.3%.



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