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The artificial intelligence trade had a major setback after the Wall Street Journal reported that the Biden administration could unveil new restrictions on the exports of AI chips to China. Nvidia, a pivotal mega cap tech trade, gets about 20% of its revenue from China. In Asia, AI related stocks were under significant selling pressure.

Despite a potential headwind for the AI trade, the NASDAQ 100 will likely have a record first half. BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager is also betting big on AI, coming out with a new overweight call. BlackRock sees a mild recession happening later this year but anticipates a mega force like AI could still help equities outperform, given a weakening macroenvironment.

We should get some volatility going into quarter close as so many traders are starting to become bullish stocks and as so many stocks are near critical option levels. The FOMO trade might be here, but the economy is clearly feeling the effects of the Fed’s tightening cycle and the consumer is weakening but has no trouble getting a job, so it will be interesting how the stock market’s back gets broken.

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Ed Moya

With more than 20 years’ trading experience, Ed Moya is a senior market analyst with OANDA, producing up-to-the-minute intermarket analysis, coverage of geopolitical events, central bank policies and market reaction to corporate news. His particular expertise lies across a wide range of asset classes including FX, commodities, fixed income, stocks and cryptocurrencies. Over the course of his career, Ed has worked with some of the leading forex brokerages, research teams and news departments on Wall Street including Global Forex Trading, FX Solutions and Trading Advantage. Most recently he worked with TradeTheNews.com, where he provided market analysis on economic data and corporate news. Based in New York, Ed is a regular guest on several major financial television networks including CNBC, Bloomberg TV, Yahoo! Finance Live, Fox Business and Sky TV. His views are trusted by the world’s most renowned global newswires including Reuters, Bloomberg and the Associated Press, and he is regularly quoted in leading publications such as MSN, MarketWatch, Forbes, Breitbart, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Ed holds a BA in Economics from Rutgers University.

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