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Artificial intelligence continues to attract record levels of investment, with billions flowing into data centres, microchips and AI infrastructure. Alongside this excitement, the gap between AI market expectations and real-world productivity is getting harder to ignore.
 
In our latest podcast, AI: Opportunity with Caution, Brian Arcese speaks to JC Xue about where we may be in the AI investment cycle - exploring why AI remains a compelling long-term opportunity, what growing market froth could signal for investors, and why companies are now likely to start optimising their AI spend.

AI has captured the market’s imagination, but inflation may prove the more persistent test.
 
Transformative technologies can create extraordinary long-term winners, but history shows that innovation-led booms often bring overvaluation and painful capital losses when too much capital chases too many opportunities at the wrong price.
 
AI matters. But even the strongest investment themes can become risky when enthusiasm leaves little margin of safety.
 
Meanwhile, the forces that helped keep inflation low for decades are beginning to unwind. Inflation may not dominate headlines like AI, but it remains one of the greatest threats to long-term purchasing power.
 
In this month’s Markets in a Nutshell, Linda Eedes explores why valuation discipline, inflation resilience and portfolio diversification still matter.

Despite ongoing conflict in the Middle East, increased oil prices and persistent trade tensions, global markets continued to move higher in May - driven largely by the ongoing AI investment boom.
 
In this episode of Markets in a Nutshell, Linda Eedes focuses on what matters from here.
 
She explores how the AI race is reshaping global markets, why deglobalisation may keep inflation structurally higher and what these shifts could mean for diversified investment portfolios.

After a volatile March, global markets rebounded sharply in April – even as geopolitical tensions escalated and inflation pressures continued to build.
In this episode of Markets in a Nutshell, Linda Eedes focuses on what matters from here.
She explores the macroeconomic backdrop shaping global markets, the risk of inflation staying higher for longer and why now is not the time for investor complacency.

March was a reminder of how quickly market optimism can unravel. The beginning of the month was defined by hopes that inflation had been tamed and would start to fall. But by mid-March, the escalation of the Israel-American conflict with Iran triggered an inescapable disruption the world over. Linda Eedes unpacks this shift and its immediate and far-reaching consequences on global markets during March and beyond in this episode of Markets in a Nutshell.