Rapid7, Amplitude, and Elastic shares fall as investors rotate from high-multiple growth names

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Shares of Rapid7, Amplitude, and Elastic declined in afternoon trading as investors rotated out of high-multiple growth stocks that had led the recent rally. Rapid7 fell 2.7%, Amplitude fell 2.7%, and Elastic fell 2.9%. The sell-off was driven by a sharper-than-expected rise in May import prices, which increased 1.9% against a 1.1% forecast and posted an annual gain of 6.7%, the largest since August 2022, complicating the inflation outlook ahead of new Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh's first meeting later in the week. Additional pressure came from a Bank of America fund manager survey showing reduced tech allocations and 28% of respondents citing an AI bubble as the second-largest tail risk, while SpaceX's $60 billion acquisition of AI coding platform Cursor signaled consolidation of valuable AI software assets into mega-cap infrastructure.

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Cloud & Digital Infrastructure▼ · 2 stocks
Amplitude Inc
AMPL
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Import price data complicates inflation outlook ahead of Fed meeting, prompting rotation out of high-multiple growth stocks like Amplitude.

Elastic NV
ESTC
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Import price data complicates inflation outlook ahead of Fed meeting, prompting rotation out of high-multiple growth stocks like Elastic.

Cybersecurity & Digital Trust▼ · 1 stocks
Rapid7 Inc
RPD
▼ NegativeMonetaryrelevance

Import price data complicates inflation outlook ahead of Fed meeting, prompting rotation out of high-multiple growth stocks like Rapid7.

Financials▲ · 1 stocks
Space Economy▲ · 1 stocks

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