“Bond King” Jeffrey Gundlach says gold’s surge has run too far too fast, and that investors who missed the rally should wait for a significantly cheaper entry point before adding exposure. In a new CNBC interview, Gundlach says investors should be cautious on gold in the short term, believing that the precious metal will likely witness another leg down before it can restart its uptrend. “I’m not really that fond of gold in the near term. It peaked out at about $5,500. And after the vertical rise up from $3,500, I wouldn’t be surprised if gold went below $4,000 before…
Author: Henry Kanapi
Billionaire investor Bill Ackman says the stock market still offers compelling value despite the recent rally to new all-time highs. In a new Bloomberg interview, Ackman says he sees several converging forces he believes the market has not yet fully priced in. “We have massive AI spending. We have massive energy spending. We have a tax bill that’s driving investment. Every day there are how many deals that are being announced. The administration is very supportive of transactions as opposed to an FTC, which would stop everything. So I think you’re going to see lots of reason to be bullish…
Scott Chronert, head of US equity strategy at Citi, says the market is underestimating how large and how long the AI infrastructure buildout will run, naming one specific sector as the firm’s highest-conviction play. In a new CNBC interview, Chronert says that despite a strong run in equity prices, the earnings growth in semis has been so powerful that valuations have actually become more attractive, not less. “The picks-and-shovels play on the AI buildout, in our view, continues to be probably the highest conviction component of this, with the hardware area of tech also being additive to that playbook.” Chronert…
Morgan Stanley has made formal allocation recommendations for Bitcoin while leaving the door open to holding BTC on its balance sheet. In an interview at the Bitcoin 2026 Conference, Amy Oldenburg, who leads the Digital Asset initiatives at the bank’s emerging markets equity division, says Morgan Stanley has made its BTC allocation position clear to clients. “We have made recommendations on allocation to Bitcoin. We’ve announced allocation recommendations to Bitcoin of 2% to 4%.” On April 8th, Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM) launched MSBT, making it the first US bank-affiliated asset manager to offer a crypto ETP. Data from the…
The numbers from the earnings report of the four largest hyperscalers show that AI is the engine driving growth across the world’s largest tech companies. Starting with Alphabet (GOOGL), data from the earnings report that ended on March 30th shows that Search advertising revenue grew 19%, with the company pointing directly to AI features like AI Overviews and AI Mode as drivers of engagement and repeat usage. Meanwhile, Google Cloud revenue surged 63% to more than $20 billion for the first time, while backlog nearly doubled quarter over quarter to over $460 billion. Gemini Enterprise is scaling quickly, with paid…
A new report from McKinsey says the global demand for AI compute power is set to trigger one of the largest capital deployment cycles in history, while identifying the three categories of investors best positioned to capture the opportunity. The consulting firm projects that data centers worldwide will require $6.7 trillion in capital expenditure by 2030 to keep pace with surging demand for compute power. Of that total, $5,2 trillion is earmarked for data centers equipped to handle AI processing loads, with the remaining $1.5 trillion going toward traditional IT infrastructure. McKinsey says the opportunity revolves around three distinct investor…
Paolo Ardoino, chief executive of Tether, says the global financial system is structurally unprepared for the volume of transactions that an AI-powered economy will require. Speaking at the Bitcoin 2026 Conference, Ardoino says the future will see a mind-boggling number of transactions with the rise of AI agents and machines. “We believe in a future where billions of people, billions of machines and trillions of AI agents will need a self-custody wallet. People need to be in charge of their own wealth. People need to be able to transact with whomever they want.” According to Ardoino, the current financial system…
A senior Morgan Stanley researcher says the signal that will unlock bullish sentiment on hyperscalers is not a revenue inflection point but something almost nobody is paying attention to. In a new episode of Morgan Stanley’s Thoughts on the Market podcast, Stephen Byrd, global head of thematic research, says the AI story is playing out in two distinct worlds simultaneously, and that the market will ultimately be driven by what it sees in the faster of the two. “We’re living in almost two worlds where the fast adopters will show what’s possible. The average utilization for enterprises will still take…
Billionaire investor Ray Dalio says the United States is unambiguously in a stagflationary period, and that any move by the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates in the current environment would be a serious and damaging error. In a new CNBC interview, the billionaire investor says it would be a costly mistake for incoming Fed Chair Kevin Warsh to cut interest rates. According to Dalio, the data suggests that inflation is still on the up and up, and a rate cut would make people question the Fed’s credibility. “Because of the issues that are here in terms of a more…
Legendary hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones is sounding one of his most urgent warnings yet about the state of the US equity market, noting that America’s dependence on firm stock prices has reached a level that dwarfs every previous market peak in modern history, including the crashes of 1929, 1987 and 2000. In a new episode of the Invest Like the Best podcast, the billionaire warns that the US is betting heavily on equities at a level never seen in history. “We’re clearly so leveraged in equities in this country. We’re so dependent upon firm equity prices at this…
