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Welcome to Investing News Network’s weekly briefing on tech news and the tech stocks that are moving the market. <\/strong><\/p>\n We also analyze next week’s catalysts to help you prepare for the week ahead.<\/p>\n Technical sector performance this week<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n Tech investors broke another wall this week amid fresh AI headlines against a backdrop of worsening geopolitics and credit markets. <\/p>\n The week started on a hopeful note, with markets rising on speculation that conflict with Iran may be easing, fueling a rally in big tech and crypto on Monday (March 23); However, strong messages from both the White House and Tehran quickly sent oil and bonds back up, ending the early week’s risk rally. <\/p>\n Within tech, software names experienced another glut reports<\/a> Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) Web Services is developing AI agents to automate tasks in sales, business-development and cybersecurity teams, where the company recently cut hundreds of jobs, it was reported Tuesday (March 24). <\/p>\n This week also focused on the funding situation with both Ares and Apollo Global Management (NYSE:APO) Setting quarterly withdrawal limits<\/a> Major private credit funds lost about 5 percent of assets after a surge in redemption requests, effectively trapping more capital. Barclays (NYSE:BCS) also Said<\/a> It is reducing asset-based lending to smaller borrowers following losses linked to the collapse of Market Financial Solutions and Tricolor Holdings, another sign that leverage is becoming tougher for borrowers outside the top tier. For the tech ecosystem, this combination points to a slower, more selective capital pipeline for everything from late-stage private companies to small infrastructure companies. <\/p>\n Memory chip makers also hit after Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) turboquant paper<\/a> A way to compress AI key-value caches by nearly six times without affecting the accuracy of the content was reported, leading to sharp selling in DRAM and HBM-related names like Sandisk (NASDAQ:SNDK) and Western Digital (NASDAQ:WDC). <\/p>\n Analysts were quick to argue that cheaper, more efficient speculation often leads to more usage and ultimately higher aggregate demand, but the first move this week was the classic de-rating of anything tied to memory intensity that is sending these stocks soaring. <\/p>\n “This whole fear thing is in the headlines, and it’s a perfect example of where we are in the market right now, because it’s extremely narrative driven,” said Nicholas Mersh, portfolio manager at Purpose Investments. <\/p>\n \u201cAs soon as Google came out and said, hey, we got an algorithm breakthrough that uses less memory, all these names just tanked. It has to do a little bit with the overall ecosystem as well as geopolitical concerns in general, but when you narrow it down to these memory companies, they come back today. It’s really interesting in terms of the dynamics that we’re seeing in the overall market that it’s based on a very knee-jerk reaction and how “It’s very reactionary in terms of where plug-ins come out.”<\/p>\n NASDAQ COMPOSITE (INDEXNASDAQ:.IXIC)<\/a> It ended in the red for the fifth consecutive week, closing at 20,948.36, down 4.76 percent from Monday’s start.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Diamondback Energy, Marvell Technology and <\/em><\/em>Demonstration of Arm Holdings, March 23 to 27, 2026.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n through charts google finance<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Top tech news of the week<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n\n
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