August 28, 2025 As investor continue to digest NVDA’s earnings report and position for the next leg of the AI trade, we wanted to call out some emerging near-term weakness in another key Technology theme in our column today. Cyber Security stocks and thematic funds have been retracing their YTD gains over the past 2-months, […]
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August 7, 2025 Artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly evolved from a niche technology to a foundational force shaping nearly every major industry in the U.S. economy. Given the scale of investment, breadth of adoption, and the distinct economics of AI business models, there is a compelling case for creating a standalone AI sector within widely
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July 10, 2025 One of the key themes to emerge since equities put in their April 7th low has been smart grid implementation. We’ve observed that among infrastructure focused funds, smart grid adjacent stocks and the GRID ETF has been YTD leadership among the funds we track (chart below). The GRID ETF (chart below) is
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June 12, 2025 The Crypto trade is heating up with recent news that companies are taking a page out of the MSTR playbook and adding Crypto to their balance sheets. This is being called a “bitcoin treasury strategy,” buying digital assets like bitcoin, ether, and solana in hopes of boosting their stock prices. Roughly 60
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June 5, 2025 Equities have staged a bullish reversal since early April and we’re seeing nuclear stocks emerge as the new “Juice” trade in the alternative energy space. Investors are moving off low vol. in favor of higher beta exposure in both Growth and Cyclical areas of the equity market. In the Alternative Energy space,
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May 29, 2025 As equities have reflated since early April, investor risk appetite has firmed. Crypto currencies have seen performance vs. USD firm and various thematic ETFs begin to outperform again. Looking beneath the surface, we’ve seen more speculative miners and infrastructure stocks catch bids while some established crypto players aren’t keeping pace. Coins have
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May 22, 2025 Global trade dynamics have impacted almost every aspect of the global equity market in 2025. Investors have concerns about aggregate economic impact on growth, inflation concerns due to rising trade barriers, infrastructure and supply chain sourcing and the availability of labor. One way that has manifested across investment themes is by bifurcating
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May 8, 2025 If you’re of a certain age you remember the record store. Whether vinyl, cassette or compact disc, all of recorded music was physically laid out by genre. At the risk of dating myself, I was all about the music scene and the record store as a teen in the 1990’s. A most
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April 24, 2025 US equities have had a good week on optimism around trade war reconciliation. Positive catalysts included acknowledgement that escalating tariffs on China would be “unsustainable” by Treasury Secretary Bessent. News that US/Japan talks shows progress and reports that lowering tariffs on China were in consideration. These developments surfaced as earnings season struck
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April 17, 2025 US equities are in risk-off mode. Last week’s rally on the first round of conciliatory developments between the US and ex-China trading partners has dissipated as investors shift to discounting the US/China trade conflict. Restrictions on semiconductor exports have already crimped NVDA and TSMC while continued selling in Mag7 shares has been
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