🚨 NVIDIA'S CEO JUST SENT A SERIOUS WARNING TO GLOBAL MARKETS!
Stocks, gold, silver, and Bitcoin came under heavy pressure last week, while oil surged.
And Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang just highlighted one of the biggest problems facing the AI industry.
Demand for AI is enormous, but the money needed to meet that demand is becoming harder to find.
The demand is there. Financing it is becoming the problem.
Two things help explain why: war and the AI spending race.
First, the war.
Since the Iran war began on February 28, oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz haven't returned to normal.
Brent surged above $116 last week before pulling back toward $114 today.
And despite efforts to reduce tensions, the threat of renewed U.S. military operations against Iran remains.
Higher oil prices are feeding inflation.
U.S. inflation reached 3.7% in September, and the Fed is facing growing pressure to keep interest rates elevated.
Before the war, the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield was 3.97%.
Earlier this month, it climbed above 5.30%. Today, it's hovering near 5%.
That makes borrowing more expensive, just as AI companies need more money than ever.
Now the second problem: how the AI boom is being funded.
Big tech companies are borrowing more. Investors are also borrowing to buy AI stocks.
And some companies are financing their own customers.
The IMF recently examined 14 major AI deals:
→ $300 billion invested in smaller AI businesses
→ $650 billion in debt financing
→ $1.4 trillion in future purchases promised to big tech companies
Think of a car dealer lending someone money to buy a car from that same dealership.
The dealer makes a sale but also provides the money for it. If the buyer can't repay, both the loan and future sales are at risk.
That's why strong AI demand doesn't automatically mean the financing is sustainable.
And Meta just showed how expensive this race has become.
In the third quarter, Meta spent $34.9 billion on investments, more than the $32.8 billion it generated from operations.
Its free cash flow turned negative.
And now Meta has announced plans to raise up to $95 billion in equity to help fund its AI expansion.
THE PROBLEM IS SIMPLE:
AI COMPANIES NEED MORE MONEY WHILE BORROWING REMAINS EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE.
And because AI companies make up such a large part of major stock indexes, their losses can drag the entire market down.
We already saw the danger last week as technology stocks came under heavy selling pressure.
And borrowed money makes everything worse.
When stocks fall, investors using leverage can be forced to sell other assets to cover their losses.
That's why stocks, gold, silver, and Bitcoin can fall together during a liquidity crisis.
Gold recently slipped below $4,000 before recovering.
Bitcoin has been trading around $80,000.
And Treasury yields remain far above their pre-war levels.
Now look at what's coming:
→ October 28: Fed interest rate decision. No change is widely expected.
→ October 29: U.S. GDP and Core PCE inflation data.
→ October 30: Bank of Japan interest rate decision.
→ November 3: U.S. midterm elections, with the risk of renewed military strikes against Iran afterward.
→ This week: Major earnings from Microsoft, Alphabet, and Amazon.
→ December 9: Fed interest rate decision, with markets expecting another possible hike.
The bigger question is whether AI spending can keep growing with money this expensive.
The IMF has already warned that a sharp slowdown in AI investment could trigger a much broader market correction.
Huang believes the funding shortage will eventually be solved.
But the question is how.
For years, cheap money helped finance bigger investments and bigger bets.
Now borrowing costs remain high, AI spending keeps rising, and geopolitical risks are making everything more expensive.
THE REAL DANGER BEGINS WHEN EVERYONE NEEDS CASH AT THE SAME TIME.
And that's exactly the risk investors should be watching right now.
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