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A draft internal U.S. Treasury report obtained by NOTUS warned that an artificial intelligence bust could spread well beyond technology stocks, raising pressure across banks, chipmakers, cloud providers, data centers and private credit markets. The document compares today’s AI boom with the dot-com cycle, but its risk map is broader than the late-1990s internet trade. The draft points to a more deeply embedded AI industry, where the same investment theme runs through public equities, corporate balance sheets, lending markets, power…

Bitcoin is falling further behind U.S. equities as the performance gap between stocks, crypto and gold becomes harder for traders to ignore. From May 6 through June 1, the BTC, S&P 500 and gold comparison shows the S&P 500 up about 4%, while Bitcoin is down roughly 13% and gold has slipped around 5%. That divergence has strengthened the rotation trade, with investors favoring equities while alternative assets struggle to hold momentum. [caption id="attachment_460911" align="aligncenter" width="2048"] Source: Santiment[/caption] The split…

Foreign investors are pulling money out of South Korean stocks at one of the sharpest clips of the year, turning the KOSPI’s powerful tech-led rally into a stress test for domestic demand. A widely shared Global Markets Investor update put foreign net selling in the KOSPI at nine straight sessions, with roughly $3.4 billion of the latest outflows concentrated in technology stocks. The same update placed year-to-date foreign outflows near $55 billion, a figure that underlines how aggressively overseas funds…

Nvidia surged to a new record high as CEO Jensen Huang joined President Donald Trump’s trip to China, putting the company’s China access, AI chip exports, and political influence back at the center of the market. NVDA traded as high as $223.60 during the latest session and was last near $220.78, giving the company a market value of about $5.4 trillion. The move keeps Nvidia as the world’s most valuable listed company and extends a rally that has made AI…

U.S. stocks slipped from record highs as doubts returned around a fast U.S.-Iran agreement to reopen energy flows through the Strait of Hormuz. The move followed a strong rally tied to hopes that Washington and Tehran were moving closer to a temporary settlement, but markets turned more cautious as oil prices rebounded and the diplomatic path looked less settled. Bloomberg’s market wrap republished by Swissinfo said the rally that pushed stocks to all-time highs faltered as traders reassessed the odds…

US AI stocks are heading into a potential breakout window in May 2026. Three of the largest AI-exposed names all report Q1 earnings between May 4 and May 5, and each one carries a distinct technical setup. One sits at a stretched bull flag with volume divergence underneath. Another is testing a descending channel breakout for the second time. The third is hanging in a relief rally just above its bearish trigger. Together, they define how the AI trade resolves…

Artificial intelligence has now expanded its dominance to US equities and the credit market. The shift is rewriting how capital flows through Wall Street, with AI-linked companies crowding out traditional sectors from benchmark indices while also redefining the largest corners of the bond market. AI Stocks Hit Record 45% of S&P 500 as Credit Markets Follow Suit AI-linked stocks now account for a record 45% of the S&P 500’s total market cap, according to data from The Kobeissi Letter. That…

One AI stock reports earnings on May 4, three weeks before Nvidia prints, and the technical setup is the most oversold it has looked in a year. Palantir (PLTR) closed above $143 on April 23, down about 30% from its November peak and roughly 15% year-to-date. The stock has been stuck inside a falling channel since early November, rejected at every bounce. But under the surface, the signals are flipping. A bullish divergence has played out, institutional money has turned…

Defiance ETFs has filed a preliminary prospectus with the SEC for the Defiance US AI Resilience ETF. The passively managed fund is designed to hold companies least likely to be disrupted by artificial intelligence (AI). The filing, submitted on Thursday, marks Defiance’s latest thematic bet. Rather than chasing AI upside, this fund takes the opposite approach by targeting old-economy businesses that AI is unlikely to replace. What the AI Resilience ETF Holds The ETF will track the VettaFi US AI…