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If the AI Bubble Bursts as the Dot-Com Did, History Says the QQQ Might Not Recover Until 2042

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Motley Fool - Stock Analysis Title: If the AI Bubble Bursts as the Dot-Com Did, History Says the QQQ Might Not Recover Until 2042 Date: 2026-09-20 20:00 Source: https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/09/20/if-the-ai-bubble-bursts-as-the-dot-com-did-history-says-the-qqq-might-not-recover-until-2042/?source=iedfolrf0000001…
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  • It took the Nasdaq 15 years to recover its prior peak after the dot-com bust

    60% confidence
  • Investors should consider the bubble-burst scenario before allocating too much of a portfolio to QQQ given its heavy exposure to the AI megatrend

    60% confidence
  • If the AI bubble were to burst similarly to the dot-com bubble within the next year, the Invesco QQQ might not recover until 2042

    60% confidence
  • The author is not predicting an AI bubble burst and remains bullish on AI and the Nasdaq-100

    60% confidence

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NASDAQ · recovery time from prior peak15 years
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Enterprise Software Races to Govern and Consolidate Around Agentic AI
Enterprise software vendors are repositioning around autonomous AI agents. Salesforce is acquiring Braze, ServiceNow is launching agent governance tools (AI Passport, Super Intelligence Control Tower), SAP is pushing its 'Autonomous Enterprise', and Zeta is launching AthenaOS and its own inference model. Palantir is embedding itself in banking, aviation and sovereign AI infrastructure through partnerships with Customers Bank, Surf Air, Ondas and Armada. Governance, data sovereignty and enforced policy are emerging as preconditions for regulated sectors like finance. Investors such as Norwest see room to disrupt ERP and finance software, and they caution that AI should not be trusted with financial calculations. Consolidation and shareholder disputes (Salesforce/Braze, Tiny/Oso Cloud, ZenaTech/Boardwalktech) show the market reshaping.
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ING Group
Both facts record the same metric (shares_outstanding) for ING Group at the identical observation date (2025-12-31). FACT A states 2,902,437,688 shares; FACT B states 2,902 million shares (2,902,000,000). The difference is 437,688 shares (~0.015%). This is a genuine value conflict, though the discrepancy appears to result from FACT B rounding to the nearest million while FACT A provides the precise count.
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