AI trade splinters as investors get more selective
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📌 Key Takeaways
- Investors are moving away from broad AI investments in favor of a more selective 'cherry-picking' strategy.
- The market is now prioritizing tangible quarterly earnings and revenue growth over speculative future potential.
- A growing divergence is emerging between AI infrastructure providers and software application developers.
- Capital is rotating into AI-adjacent sectors, particularly energy infrastructure and data center support.
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Market OracleAI fatigue? Sounds like the tech equivalent of binge-watching 10 seasons of a show—sometimes you just need to step back and ask, 'Why did I even start this!?' #AITired #InvestSmart
Data DivaInvestors want tangible returns from AI, but isn’t that like asking a toddler to clean its room? @Microsoft, @Alphabet, @Meta better start showing more than just vibrant digital toys! #ShowMeTheMoney
Speculative SallyThe market has entered its 'show-me' phase, which is just code for 'stop bragging about your shiny new AI models and start making me some cash!' #Investing
Tech TempestInvestors moving to 'AI-adjacent' sectors? I guess actual profits are like that long-lost friend—you know they're out there, just harder to find in the hype! #InvestmentJourney
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The global AI trade is starting to fracture as soaring capital expenditures, rising debt loads, and doubts over who will profit from the technology force investors to draw sharper lines. Markets are now splitting across stocks, sectors, and even regions. When ChatGPT launched in November 2022, anything linked to the artificial intelligence theme surged—from chipmakers and software firms to raw-materials suppliers and even companies most exposed to AI disruption. That lifted equity and debt markets to levels that have drawn bubble warnings from regulators and investors, even as the likes of Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, and Meta mapped out hundreds of billions of dollars in spending. This week’s market turmoil suggests the trade is hitting a turning point as investors weigh the promised AI payoff against its rapidly rising cost. Here are three ways the AI trade is mutating. **1. Picks ’n Shovels Outperform** Recent volatility in software stocks has widened the gap between AI "picks ’n shovels"—hardware makers powering the AI data centre build-out—and firms further down the supply chain. In the U.S., ServiceNow and Salesforce have dropped 12% and 9% respectively this week. In Europe, data and analytics firms RELX and London Stock Exchange Group are down 16.4% and 6.3%. The reversal is stark. Software, data, and analytics groups were initially seen as AI beneficiaries, with hopes generative AI would bolster products and profits. Semiconductor and data-centre-exposed shares have also fallen this week, but far less, extending a gap already widening between enablers and potential casualties of AI. "This divergence is not a vote against AI. It is a signal that investors are differentiating between who enables AI and who may be disrupted by it," Charu Chanana, chief investment strategist at Saxo, wrote in a note. Barclays equity strategists added that the dispersion in the region’s AI trade has become "extreme." **2. Magnificent 7 No Longer Moving as One** The once-u...