Deck: THE REAL POST-FED QUESTION: WHO CAN FINANCE THE GROWTH? The first Federal Reserve rate increase in more than three years changes the investment question. The obvious interpretation is that higher rates are bad for growth stocks because they increase the discount rate applied to future earnings. That remains true. High-growth companies do not become
Deck: Calls to slow frontier-AI development have shaken semiconductor stocks and challenged the assumption that ever-faster models automatically justify ever-higher AI spending. Yet the deeper investment question is different: can Big Tech monetise the enormous compute infrastructure already being built even if frontier progress slows? The market may be asking the wrong question about the
Deck: With U.S. inflation still above target, Brent crude near $108 and the 10-year Treasury yield testing 5%, the Fed faces an unusual problem: raising rates could hurt risk assets, but refusing to tighten may destabilise the bond market even more. The most important signal ahead of today’s Federal Reserve decision is not that equities
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The biggest mistake this week was not failing to predict four declining sessions. It was more fundamental: before analysing AI, semiconductors or individual stocks, we should have asked whether the market was entering a persistent multi-day risk-off regime. That changes how the entire investment process should begin. We asked the questions in the wrong order
AI earnings remain exceptional, yet the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield is pressing toward 5% and volatility remains unusually subdued. The strategic question is no longer whether AI wins or rates win. It is how to retain exposure to accelerating AI economics without carrying unnecessary valuation, concentration and duration risk. AI may be creating part of
South Korea’s KOSPI surged 4.6% and Japan’s Nikkei 2.1% as semiconductor shares exploded higher — even while oil, rate expectations and currencies signalled tighter financial conditions. The important message is not simply that AI is back. It is that hardware is attempting to reclaim market leadership against a hostile macro backdrop. The strongest signal today
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Treasury yields near 4.8% should theoretically pressure long-duration technology assets. Yet AI infrastructure spending, semiconductor revenues and capacity commitments continue accelerating. The reason may be structural: for the companies funding the AI buildout, the relevant constraint is increasingly not the price of money — but the availability and productivity of compute. Inventory then travels backwards
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FRL DEEP RESEARCH Research for registered members of the TITAN Options Circle private research community Volkswagen has crossed a line that makes its current restructuring much more than another cost-cutting programme. On 3 September 2026, the supervisory board approved what Volkswagen describes as the most extensive transformation programme in the Group’s history. The newly approved
FRL DEEP RESEARCH For the private TITAN Options Circle research community Cernobbio is not, by itself, a trading signal. That distinction matters. The 52nd TEHA Forum at Villa d’Este takes place from 4 to 6 September 2026 under the traditional framework of examining the world, Europe and Italy. The opening day is devoted primarily to
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