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global · Thursday, 28 May 2026
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S&P 500
7,514.94
+0.55% |
FTSE 100
10,505.01
+0.37% |
BTC/$
75,170.61
-0.86% |
10Y Yield
4.4750
-0.40% |
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Good morning. The equity market has officially decided that the artificial intelligence hardware cycle is bigger than the Middle East.
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Micron crossed $1tn during Tuesday's session, Tony Blair urged Labour to pivot toward Trump, FedEx launched a $9bn European logistics play, and Ed Sheeran is testing free agency.
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Wall Street prices the silicon, not the shrapnel.
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Thoughts
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Wall Street has made a definitive calculation about the state of the world. Geopolitics is a localised friction, but the artificial intelligence hardware cycle is the absolute economic baseline.
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The divergence is sitting in plain sight across the week's data. The Pentagon just admitted that Operation Epic Fury has consumed $50bn in three months, yet WTI crude actively retreated to $93.63 a barrel despite fresh airstrikes in the Gulf. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley explicitly ignored the regional friction to hold their 2026 S&P 500 targets at 8,000. While the credit rating agencies warn of rising corporate default rates as energy costs compound, the equity desks are entirely focused on Micron crossing the trillion-dollar threshold.
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The market's logic is grounded in sheer capital scale. The corporate tech contest now routinely dwarfs sovereign military budgets. ByteDance is preparing to deploy $70bn on data centres this year alone, matching the American hyperscalers dollar for dollar out of its own profits. When single private companies are outspending the Pentagon's active war footing simply to secure advanced silicon, the traditional hierarchy of global risk is inverted.
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If this calculation holds, the historical risk premium on international conflict is permanently compressed. Equities will continue to treat regional wars as regional problems, provided they do not directly sever the semiconductor supply chains connecting Taiwanese foundries to Californian server racks.
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Until tomorrow. Hopefully the algorithms have factored in the coffee run.
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| "I'm afraid fifty billion just doesn't make you a priority client anymore, general." |
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