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Is the AI trade broadening or narrowing?
It is sorting rather than broadening — the market has been separating AI winners violently within the theme rather than spreading the bid across it.
Based on Antevo intelligence published 14 August 2026 · Intelligence, not advice.
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The distinction is between a theme that lifts everything associated with it and a theme that has started to discriminate. Through the summer the tape did the second: equities melted up while sorting AI winners violently, and the undercurrent beneath the AI-led tape has been on this brief's watch list since early July.
A sorting market is healthier than an indiscriminate one and more fragile than a broad one. It means the index level is being carried by a shrinking set of names, which is what makes the funding question consequential rather than academic.
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