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While conventional wisdom says rising interest rates hurt tech and other growth stocks, as they make borrowing money to fund rapid growth m♛ore expensive, recent ⛄history suggests otherwise.

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This includes a stellar 59% gain during the 1999-2000 hiking cycle, which coincided with the final stages of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:dot-com rally, though it collapsed after the Fed had finished hiking rates. It also saw a 36% rise between Dec. 2015 and the corresponding month of 2018, when accelerating economic growth prompted the Fed to raise rates from record-low levels.

The Nasdaq 100 fell by a quarter between March and late December of last year, but has since recovered and is now 5% higher than it was before the Fed started raising interest rates.

In early 2016, during the initial stages of the previous tightening cycle, the index fell 14% within two months of the first rate hike, amid a broader stock market 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:correction, but by July꧃ had fully recovered its losses. It rose through a series of eight rate hikes over the next two-and-a-half-years, ending more than a third above than its pre-tightening level.

AI Could Beไ Biggest Transformative Event in Decades

History may not be the only tailwind for tech. Analysts at Wedbush Securities believe tech stocks can power through 'higher for longer' interest rates as the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:artificial intelligence (AI) revolution—which they believe is the tech industry's biggest transformative event since the 1990s internet boom—ushers in a risk-on environment.

The analysts cited an explosion of company use cases for AI and said we may be entering the next phase of massive AI spending, citing AI titan Nvidia's (NVDA) massive 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:earnings beat last quarter. Big tech companies like Google (GOOGL), Microsoft (MSFT), Amazon (AMZN), and Nvidia that have invested heavily in AI could be among the biggest beneficiari🐼es🍬.