Cooling inflation and resilient employment support a cautiously bullish stance, but rising consumer stress and AI capital scrutiny demand selectivity. Investors should favor quality growth and real assets while maintaining defensive ballast, as this late-cycle environment rewards discipline over broad risk-taking.
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Markets are rewarding cash flows over narratives as earnings beat expectations and manufacturing improves. Leadership is broadening toward industrials, financials, and energy, while software and speculative growth remain under pressure. Rotation, not recession, continues to define the February tape
Equity leadership remains concentrated where earnings visibility, AI-driven productivity, and capital discipline intersect. As inflation proves sticky and policy risk rises, sector performance is diverging sharply—rewarding cash-flow durability and punishing balance-sheet stress, rate sensitivity, and regulatory uncertainty.
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Early 2026 is defined by late-cycle rotation rather than regime change. Broadening earnings, rate volatility, and improving productivity favor cyclical Value sectors tactically, while structural Growth leadership remains intact. Selectivity and balance—not binary style bets—are increasingly critical as expansion matures
Interest-rate direction is a key driver of sector leadership. Falling or stable yields support Technology and Communication Services by easing valuation pressure on long-duration earnings. Rising or volatile rates tend to favor Financials, Energy, and cyclically oriented Industrials, where cash flows are nearer-term and valuations less sensitive to discount-rate shifts.
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