OBAM: Investment opportunities outside AI
Now that the Republicans and Democrats have finally ended the shutdown after much wrangling, it seems that investors are simultaneously taking a step back. The substantial gains on AI-related stocks are being cashed in. Last week, I attended a conference in the US in which nearly 300 companies participated. It proved almost impossible to find companies that were not talking about data centers and AI.
OBAM: Buffett, Cruijff and Jobs: Tour guides in a volatile stock market
Investors currently face a high degree of uncertainty. Geopolitical tensions are rising, protectionism is back on the scene, America has started a trade war, and meanwhile a (quiet) revolution in artificial intelligence is taking place. Despite all this turbulence, stock markets are already close to their all-time highs, while at the time of Trump’s “Liberation Day,” predictions were still that a global recession was inevitable.
