NVIDIA shares traded near $219 on September 18, 2026, after opening the week of September 14 lower on calls from AI executives including Anthropic’s Dario Amodei for a slowdown in frontier model development to address safety risks. Offsetting that pressure, the company’s fiscal Q2 results showed data-center revenue of $89 billion, up 117% year-over-year, with CEO Jensen Huang projecting a doubling of chip sales and 70% revenue growth for 2027. Traders are also weighing Huawei’s accelerated AI-chip roadmap, elevated Treasury yields, and the Federal Reserve’s September policy decision amid persistent inflation concerns. These factors have kept near-term price action sensitive to both AI-spending momentum and macro-rate expectations.