Private credit and private equity are linked. PC finances the massive needs of AI and to a lesser extent PE also provides funding albeit less direct. Banks are less eager to allocate large sums to AI.
If the current AI bubble bursts what will PC and PE look like?
The US and Japan are joining forces to fend off yen bears as the currency has fallen to a 40 year low against the USD.
Now Bessent has enlisted even the Fed. If it fails what will happen to the yen and through contamination the USD and US treasuries?
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The biggest losers are the American consumers.
This triple whammy from China is rewriting the entire high technology development playbook.
This was possible due to US and its allies’ sanctions.
Solution to this existential challenge according to the US and its allies?
More sanctions!
Whammy 1.
Moonshot AI’s KIMI K3, sending shockwaves across the entire AI ecosystem.
Whammy 2.
China builds domestic DUV lithography machines leaving ASML in panic.
Whammy 3.
CXMT blockbuster IPO putting Micron, Samsung and SK Hynix on notice.
ASML is not only concerned it will lose DUV lithography machines sales in China to Chinese domestic supplier but China will export these machines and dominate the DUV world market.
The next challenge for ASML is EUVs and it’s coming sooner than you think.