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AI’s market winners raise concentration risk for global investors

A NYT Business columnist argues that with stocks and bonds both posting strong midyear gains, investor risk is increasingly tied to a smaller set of AI-favored companies.

Near the midpoint of the year, both stocks and bonds are delivering good returns, but a columnist at NYT Business says the global stock market is becoming highly concentrated.

The concern, according to NYT Business, is that AI-driven performance is rewarding a narrower group of winners, which can make overall market outcomes more dependent on those same names.

The column frames AI as a driver of investor gains so far, while warning that this concentration may represent the greatest risk going forward.

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