The U.S. stock market is fracturing into two camps, and it’s leaving investors with a brutal case of whiplash
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AI-heavy names are now trading like a separate asset class—correlated more to rates, data-center capex, and sentiment gauges like the Fear & Greed index than to the broader economy. If your business is levered to AI multiples, plan for a regime where capital access and valuation swing much harder than your operating performance.
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