Investors grow selective as global AI trade begins to fracture
Markets are splitting as soaring costs force investors to scrutinize returns. Hardware makers outperform software firms while South Korean chip stocks surge.
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Investors are drawing sharper lines in the global artificial intelligence investment trade as soaring capital expenditure, rising debt loads, and persistent uncertainty over which companies will profit from the technology cause the once-unified market to fracture. This shift is driving divergent market performance across hardware makers, software and data firms, and regional markets, fundamentally altering leadership within equity and debt markets while reshaping investor flows and valuation dynamics across sectors and regions as of February 6, 2026.
