The AI boom is becoming harder to stop
Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft now have $2.4 TRILLION+ in future off-balance-sheet commitments, according to the WSJ. These aren’t hidden debts, but largely long-term commitments for data centers, energy, servers and compute capacity. The key point: a significant part of future AI spending is already locked in. That creates enormous momentum across the AI ecosystem — from Nvidia and Broadcom to memory, data centers, power equipment and utilities. It also accelerates the financialization of AI infrastructure: long-term Big Tech contracts can support debt, private credit and potentially securitization. ✅ Short term: this makes an abrupt AI capex slowdown less likely. ⚠️ Long term: it raises the stakes. If AI revenues fail to justify these massive commitments, overcapacity, falling compute prices and refinancing stress could turn today’s financial accelerator into tomorrow’s vulnerability.
The number of S&P500 stocks that now have negative beta to the market is at the highest level since 2000 / 2001
“The list of “Negative Beta” stocks, names whose day in and day out correlation to the S&P 500 is inverse, has surged to 121 names, far surpassing the only other significant spike, in 2000-01 after the dot com bubble had burst.” -Evercore Source: Negligible Capital ISI evercore
Asset Managers and Hedge Funds have now built the largest Nasdaq Futures short position in history
Source: Barchart
Sandisk $SNDK is now up 62% in the last 14 days, adding $101 billion to its market value.
SanDisk has now broken past almost every analyst target on Wall Street. Source: Bull Theory
Energy stocks are up by nearly 38% so far this year ... so far, that ranks as the third best year going back to 1990.
Source: Kevin Gordon Bloomberg
Equity options on specific assets will begin trading at 7:15 ET starting this Monday (TODAY).
Here are the full requirements for eligibility for pre-market options trading: -the option class has an average daily volume of 150,000 contracts or higher -the underlying equity to the option has a $50 billion or higher market capitalization, and -the underlying equity to the option has an average daily traded volume of 10 million shares or higher. Source: Trend Spider
The new AI infrastructure stack
Piper Sandler mapped the new AI infrastructure stack across 8 layers from the power grid all the way to the agent as AI scaling creates bottlenecks across power, cooling, networking, storage, cloud & inference: Source: Shay Boloor Piper Sandler
Tech has had quite the month so far... and we're not even halfway done
Source: Trend Spider
