Bot Brief

"There is no force on earth as powerful as an idea whose time has come."     

- Victor Hugo

Bots in the News:

With almost half of the components of the Bot Index experiencing double digit declines during the ‘tariff’ week. The Bot Index fell 11.51% while the S & P 500 fell just over 9%. The worst performance within the bots included:

          Oceaneering International -20.65%

          Zebra Technologies -20.42%

          Novanta -19.34%

          Fanuc -18.46%

          Yaskawa Electric -18.14

          Cognex Corp. -16.86%

          Textron -16.82%

          NVIDIA -14%

          Apple -13.55%

          Faro -13.06%

          Joby -12.23%

          Teledyne -11.89%

          Immersion Corp. -11.69%

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