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The race to dominate artificial intelligence has triggered one of the largest capital expenditure cycles in corporate history. Technology giants are investing aggressively in data centres, networking infrastructure, power capacity, and advanced processors to secure future leadership in AI.

The Federal Reserve's communication strategy has become almost as important to financial markets as interest rate decisions themselves. For years, investors relied on policy projections, economic forecasts, and forward guidance to estimate where borrowing costs were likely to move.

The Iran ceasefire has dominated market attention because of its immediate effect on oil prices, inflation expectations, and risk appetite. Yet a quieter and potentially more durable shift is taking place across the technology sector.

Financial markets have welcomed the decline in oil prices following the US-Iran ceasefire, viewing it as a potential catalyst for lower inflation and easier monetary policy. Yet history suggests the relationship between commodity prices and inflation is rarely straightforward.

Digital advertising was historically dominated by search engines, social media platforms, and open-web publishers. That hierarchy is changing as large retailers build advertising businesses around their own customer data.

Accenture's guidance reduction was initially treated as an earnings disappointment. Slower expected revenue growth and pressure in parts of the government business gave investors clear reasons to reassess near-term forecasts.

UBS's technology reduction call is one of the more direct bearish assessments of AI equity valuations to emerge from a major investment bank and arrives in a context that makes it more compelling than a typical cycle-top warning. The Warsh Fed's hawkish hold has …