Nvidia's record single-day loss
Six hundred billion dollars of market value evaporates in one session.
- When
- Known to
- ± 12 hours
- Era
- Contemporary, Holocene
Nvidia fell 17% on 27 January 2026, the largest single-day loss of market value in American history and the second such record the company had set in twelve months. The fall followed doubts about the returns on the enormous capital spending committed to AI data centres, and dragged the wider market with it — an index increasingly dependent on a handful of firms.