Jefferies’ Chris Wood says it’s time to diversify beyond AI. Where should investors look now?
A quarterly results development with market-wide reach.
· Economic Times Markets
Jefferies’ Chris Wood is urging investors to diversify beyond AI as earnings growth for global AI stocks is expected to slow sharply and valuations remain elevated. His Asia portfolio retains exposure to semiconductor companies while avoiding heavy AI capex spenders, with India, China and other Asian markets featuring prominently in the allocation.
The analysis
Earnings versus expectations is what actually re-rates a stock; the surprise matters more than the absolute number.
Because the driver here is macro rather than company-specific, the read-through is to index-level positioning rather than to any single name — correlations tend to rise when the whole market faces the same signal.
Market context
- A market-wide development: it reaches beyond any single stock.
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