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All Along the AI Watchtower

AI value-chain stocks sold off as crowded, leverage-fueled trades unwound despite rising token spend, creating mispriced opportunities…

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Small Themes: June 2026

Small Themes argues crowded AI positioning could rotate capital into senior housing, stadiums, exchange competition, fintech and airlines…

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equities

Macro Memo: Spin Cycle

US equities face 10–15% drawdowns over the next three to four months as inflation and rate fears rise, but stable core inflation supports a…

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State of the Themes: June 2026

Citrindex’s June 2026 review tracks AI, energy and fiscal-spending themes, warning that rising AI token costs could challenge the…

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Semis Memo: Supply Chain Inheritance

AI data-center buildouts are inheriting EV and solar supply chains, lifting demand and pricing for analog and power-semiconductor…

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energy

Flash Note: Defense Production Act

The Defense Production Act designates grid equipment as essential to national defense, reinforcing five- to six-year backlogs for Korean…

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commodities

Strait of Hormuz: A Citrini Field Trip

The Strait of Hormuz field report details Iran’s evolving rules for tanker passage through the 54-mile Iran–Oman chokepoint during a live…

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Agentic Utilities

Agentic AI is driving token consumption and reviving the investment cases for Akamai, Fastly, Circle and Cloudflare as utility-layer…

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Let There Be Light

AI hyperscalers’ $650B–$700B 2026 capex is shifting the optics trade toward photonic components, substrates and equipment as co-packaged…

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THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS

The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis models AI-driven white-collar layoffs, collapsing consumer demand, mortgage stress and a 38% S&P…

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aerospace & defense

Thematic Update: Modern Warfare

Modern warfare investment themes center on directed-energy weapons, subsea drones and Arctic infrastructure as geopolitical tensions lift…

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aerospace & defense

Atoms vs Bits

AI disruption fears are compressing software multiples as data-center, defense and aerospace demand tightens materials supply chains.

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Semis Memo: Muscle Memory

Semis Memo maps second-order AI infrastructure opportunities in memory, semiconductor equipment subsystems, advanced packaging and silicon…

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Macro Memo: Running Hot

U.S. GDP grew 3.8% in Q2 and 4.3% in Q3 as AI-linked productivity gains offset stagnant job creation; Fed liquidity expansion eases funding…

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portfolio management

26 Trades for 2026

26 Trades for 2026 presents a thematic watchlist spanning potential winners, scenario hedges, and ideas to monitor after 2025’s equally…

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Carving Up the TPU

Google’s TPUs give it vertically integrated AI training and inference economics as Anthropic and Meta consider adoption, challenging…

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crypto

Macro Memo: Mo-vember

Macro Memo expects a deteriorating US job market, December Fed hold and near-term volatility before fiscal-expansion hopes fuel a Santa…

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healthcare

I Can See Clearly Now… The Rain Is Gone?

Healthcare small caps have rebounded as policy fears recede, fundamentals improve, and 2025 M&A accelerates.

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Power Struggle: Natural Gas

U.S. natural gas faces structurally higher prices as AI data centers and LNG exports outpace maturing, increasingly price-sensitive shale…

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inflation

Macro Memo: Red October

U.S. equities remain supported by secular capex and fiscal stimulus while tariffs, weak cyclical demand, and policy-driven mortgage-rate…

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