Prepared Remarks
Equity Investor, Macro Commentary
US large-cap stocks are set for a catch-up trade after the biggest, best companies fell 15% or more on a manufactured conflict that is now irrelevant, even as AI usage exploded and their numbers kept rising. The Nasdaq 100 is up only 4% this year and the S&P 500 2%, less than Claude's inflection since December alone is worth. x.com x.comÂ
US large-cap equities look near a bottom because hedge-fund positioning suggests forced selling is in its final innings, not economic deleveraging. By many measures this is one of the largest hedge-fund equity deleveraging events in 30 years; AI positions built over 18 months are being unwound in 75 days. Yet profits are growing about 20% year over year, AI compute demand exceeds supply, and the S&P 500 has barely moved. Contagion has reached credit, multistrats and European bonds. x.comÂ
Alphabet's AI capex payback is being repriced, making its post-earnings decline more than a one-day mood swing. Guidance and cloud and AI margin commentary are the near-term tests. If growth continues but the multiple compresses, the risk is duration in mega-cap AI, not a collapse in technology growth. x.comÂ
US stocks face a potentially bigger selloff as rising inflation compounds concerns about AI spending. PCE inflation reached a four-month high of 3.6%, increasing pressure on the Fed to raise rates; Alphabet shares fell after disappointing earnings, slowing ad growth and more than $51 billion of quarterly capital investment. x.comÂ
Far less inflated valuations and significant AI earnings make US equities unlike the dot-com market top. AI/SI spending may still be overexuberant. Rates and yields have returned to historical averages; more oil through the Strait of Hormuz and from OPEC and Russia should lower oil and inflation. The market may not have bottomed yet, but falling yields, steady rates and the midterms passing should let it climb the wall of worry. x.com x.com x.comÂ
Anthropic's S-1 and @UncleAlpha007's claim that Microsoft is growing despite a 27% headcount cut have turned the near-term tech-equity view bullish. At least a tradable rally is expected; further upside depends on Iran developments and PCE. Stay nimble. x.com x.comÂ
Uncertain AI-capex profits and higher oil costs from Iran still threaten US stocks. The SPCX-Nvidia deal brought much-needed overnight inflows to chips and is shifting sentiment, but tech's waterfall decline will not heal with a sharp V-bottom. Be prepared for a big fade. x.comÂ
US large-cap equities stay a buy because an uninterrupted AI narrative is strong enough to overcome adverse macro developments. Core inflation in the high 2s or low 3s is not a big risk; stocks, the Fed and a sideways 10-year yield show little concern. As long as AI capex is not slowing, macro remains a dominated risk. A pullback is overdue, but its likelier catalyst is AI-related, such as a megacap like Meta cutting capex or open models reviving ROI questions, which would change the view. x.com … Show more
Strong corporate earnings make weekend crash panic a contrarian buying opportunity in US large-cap equities. Most individual stocks have already gone through bear markets despite the S&P 500 nearing record highs; weekend social-media panic rarely leads to a genuine economic downturn and instead offers long-term investors an attractive entry point. x.comÂ
The AI-led S&P 500 peak will likely end somewhere between 2000 and the Nifty Fifty: painful, but not a 34-year Japan-style wait. Breadth is ugly, with record index highs while most stocks bleed; @RestlessCentaur notes over 70% of S&P 500 stocks are down more than 10%. Today's leaders trade around 30x forward earnings, while the 2000 and Japan tops were two to three times pricier. x.com x.com x.com x.com x.comÂ
US stocks broadly are undervalued because most of AI's economic value flows to the businesses consuming tokens, not the token producers. AI agents do tasks far more cheaply than human labor, so value creation exceeds value capture by 50:1 or more, lifting aggregate earnings. S&P 500 earnings growth should accelerate beyond historical norms, in step with model labs' revenue. 2026 EPS revisions already outpace the norm, inflecting as Claude Code spread in January, even with CAPE at 42x. x.com … Show more
