Global markets broadly rise on AI chip demand despite Wall Street’s retreat on inflation data - AP News

Global equity markets broadly advanced on continued demand for artificial intelligence chips, even as U.S. stocks pulled back after inflation data came in hotter than expected. The divergence points to a sector-specific earnings and capital-spending channel overpowering the macro rate-sensitivity that typically weighs on equities when inflation prints surprise to the upside. Semiconductor and AI-linked names carry the most direct exposure, as their valuations rest heavily on expected hyperscaler spending, while rate-sensitive segments of the S&P 500 such as utilities, real estate, and small caps are more vulnerable to a repricing of the Federal Reserve's easing path. Traders will be watching the next Consumer Price Index release and Treasury yield moves for confirmation of whether inflation persistence is shifting expectations for policy rates.

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