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Published on 12 September 2026
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Every so often, you look at the market charts and have to rub your eyes. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq are currently enjoying one of those moments, pushing into territory that was, until recently, the stuff of fantasy. It’s a rally of historic proportions, we’re told. But as someone who has seen a few of these rodeos, my first instinct is to ask a simple question. Is this real, or are we all just getting swept up in another bout of collective madness?
This time, the story goes, it’s different. The engine driving this relentless climb isn’t flimsy speculation, but something far more tangible, artificial intelligence. To me, it feels less like a traditional market rally and more like a fundamental rewiring of the economy, orchestrated by a handful of colossal companies. You know the names. NVIDIA, Microsoft, Apple. These aren’t just participants in the new gold rush, they are the ones selling the shovels, the maps, and the land the gold is supposedly on.
NVIDIA, once the darling of computer gamers, has somehow become the indispensable backbone of the entire AI revolution. Its chips are the digital brains powering everything, and its earnings calls have become must-watch television for the entire financial world. Then you have Microsoft, the old guard that cleverly reinvented itself as a cloud computing behemoth, weaving AI into its services so seamlessly that businesses can’t imagine life without it. It’s a masterclass in monetising a revolution.
Of course, behind all this glamorous AI wizardry lies the gritty, unglamorous world of semiconductors. Let’s be honest, chips are not exciting. They are the plumbing of the digital world. But as we’ve learned, when the plumbing breaks, the whole house floods. These companies are the foundation upon which the entire tech edifice is built. Without them, the AI dream remains just that, a dream.
This has created a rather convenient feedback loop. The more sophisticated AI becomes, the more powerful the chips it needs. The more powerful the chips, the more sophisticated the AI can become. It’s a cycle of growth that seems, for now, to be spinning faster and faster, pulling the whole market along with it. It’s a compelling narrative, one that underpins collections of stocks like the Record High Rally, but an investor must always look at both sides of the coin.
And that brings me to the risks, because there are always risks. Investing is never a sure thing. These sky-high valuations demand nothing less than perfection. One slip, one missed earnings target, and the fall could be as dramatic as the climb. The market’s gains are concentrated in so few names that it feels like we’re all crammed into the same lifeboat. If one of these giants stumbles, we all get wet.
Then there’s the ever-present threat of the regulators, who are beginning to look at the power wielded by big tech with increasing suspicion. And let’s not forget geopolitical squabbles, which could throw a spanner in the works of these global supply chains at a moment’s notice. Believing this rally is unstoppable is naive. The market, like gravity, is a force that eventually asserts itself. The question is simply when.
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