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AI boom could lift US financing costs and widen sector gaps

The outlook is linked to a week that saw 10-year Treasury yields hit a 24-year high, with Bloomberg citing AI-related corporate borrowing.

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Forexlive summarizes US writer Derek Thompson’s warning that the AI build-out may resemble “Dutch disease,” where demand for scarce inputs like chips, power, and technical labor pulls resources away from other parts of the economy.

The report says the argument points to upward pressure on bond yields, electricity prices, and wages for scarce technical staff, which could leave financing costs higher for sectors outside technology.

It also connects the thesis to market conditions this week, noting 10-year Treasury yields reached a 24-year high and that Bloomberg partly attributed the move to AI-related corporate borrowing.

For equities, Forexlive says the framework implies a wider divergence between AI beneficiaries and consumer-facing companies, while it adds energy price pressures as a complicating factor as Iran-war oil prices lift electricity and input costs.

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