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El-Erian says that AI has pulled up the stock market in two ways—and it can unwind it, too. “One is indexes,” he says. “The second one has to do with ‘risk compression.’ In credit, you go all the way up the high-yield curve. So, AI has pulled everybody up with them. Some names don’t deserve the valuations they have right now. Others do.”
By Andy Serwer
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In fact, Nvidia used to be a decent yielder, and November used to be payment-raising time. After years of stunning stock price gains, splits, and no dividend raises, the payment is a penny a share per quarter, for a yield of 0.0002%, the lowest in the S&P 500.
Wall Street estimates that Nvidia will generate over $93 billion in free cash this year, and $151 billion next year, after around $5.5 billion in yearly capital spending. Its dividend costs about $1 billion. Maybe it’s time for a raise.
By Jack Hough
In particular, what happens in Japan doesn’t stay in Japan. As Société Générale strategist Albert Edwards writes: “The world’s financial markets had long gorged themselves on Japan’s multidecade era of ultralow interest rates and super-sized [quantitative easing]. Western politicians in particular should quiver with fear as Japan turns off the liquidity tap that has in effect suppressed Western bond yields below levels that their bloated fiscal deficits justify.”
By Randall W. Forsyth
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