The baying of the hounds can be heard at a distance. Yesterday, Nvidia's Jensen Huang confirmed that it was indeed true that he had a romantic affair with Alice Huang (not related to the family), who U.S. intelligence services claim is a Chinese honeypot tasked with facilitating smuggling of the firm's advanced GPUs into China. Now, a class-action lawsuit and investigations have started flying from almost everywhere.

This development is not unexpected, as basic securities law allows shareholders to sue their investees if they misrepresent facts or otherwise perform actions that cause a drop in stock prices. They may have a point, as Nvidia's shares dipped significantly when the confirmation of Jensen's infidelity and the ramifications thereof hit the press everywhere.