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Equities cover stocks and ownership shares in publicly and privately traded companies across all sectors and geographies.

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What's Happening in Equities

Equity markets face a collision between structural AI demand and mounting near-term headwinds that are fracturing investor confidence. CoreWeave's operational stumbles sparked overblown sector pessimism despite sustained AI capex cycles, while Meta's cash drain from AI buildout and Nvidia's capital constraints reveal the tension between deployment demand and funding availability—a bottleneck that slows the pace of infrastructure expansion even as underlying demand remains strong. Separately, a sharp rotation into Treasuries as yields plummet signals flight to safety, with jobless claims at decades lows sustaining wage pressure and limiting Fed rate cuts, while Chinese equities have entered bear market territory and French sovereign yields hit 24-year peaks, indicating capital flight from riskier assets into government bonds and compressing equity risk premiums globally. Retail investor enthusiasm for AI equities has outpaced fundamental support at current valuations, and strategists warn that shifting AI targets and uneven market breadth—with the Nasdaq declining while select stocks gain ground—point to sector rotation rather than uniform liquidation, leaving equity positioning vulnerable to sentiment reversals if geopolitical tensions persist or inflation fails to ease as optimists forecast.