元外株ファンドマネージャー、チーフストラテジスト、CIOなど。生命保険会社・資産運用会社で公的年金・企業年金・投資信託運用に携わるなど投資家として40年近く市場と関わってきた。 経済と相場の関係、資産間の分析が得意。グラフで見せる。A picture is worth a thousand words.
The market is being driven by just 2 sectors:
The S&P 500 has added over +$5 trillion in market cap so far in 2026.
Meanwhile, AI stocks have added +$6 trillion in value, followed by +$200 billion added by the energy sector.
At the same time, other sectors have erased -$1 trillion of their market cap.
To put this differently, the majority of market gains have come from just 84 firms, with the rest from 22 energy stocks.
AI-related stocks now reflect ~47% of the S&P 500’s market cap, near an all-time high and up from 27% in early-2023.
AI is all that matters.
One point that I have been making recently is that today's imbalances aren't just a repeat of past imbalances -- there is much more concentration of the surplus in Asia, and the pattern of inflows into the US is also different.
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Retail sales surged in May even as gasoline hit $4.50 a gallon. Strip out autos and gas, and consumers still spent aggressively across eleven of thirteen categories.
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@KobeissiLetter U.S. margin debt is surging. Based on historical precedent, major corrections in the S&P 500 have occurred after the YoY growth rate of margin debt exceeded 60%. Conversely, no major correction in the S&P 500 has occurred before that threshold was reached.