The market's leadership is shifting fast. The clean version is simple: memory is tight, AI spending is getting harder to justify on faith alone, and money is moving away from the biggest winners into the suppliers, infrastructure names, and smaller parts of the market with clearer payback.

• Memory squeeze and who pays

• HBM shortage and the cycle risk

• China as delayed relief

• Rotation away from mega-cap tech

• AI capex meets cash-flow scrutiny

• Optics and energy become second-order AI winners

• Fed, bonds, oil, and transport costs

• Where rotation is landing

• Risk markers to watch

Sources:

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