Headline inflation above 4% closes the door on "one-and-done," but the AI trade is bouncing anyway. TL;DR 1/ Tuesday's CPI print above 4% year-over-year has killed the "one-and-done" narrative and forced the market to price a genuine hiking cycle, with the 10-year set to breach 5% cleanly on reopening. 2/ The AI trade is bouncing on hard demand evidence (CoreWeave beat, OpenAI's first $10B revenue quarter, Anthropic IPO momentum), but this is a vol-structure-driven relief rally in a negative gamma regime, not a durable re-rating. 3/ NVDA is cheap on every metric but functions as a value trap until the board resolves the Jensen Huang situation ahead of November 17th earnings. 4/ Hormuz throughput at 30% of pre-war levels, Iran hardening on nuclear talks, and an overnight Ukraine strike on Russian export infrastructure at Ust-Luga mean commodity tail risk is not priced out. Regime: Fragile. Use the buyback re-entry window to selectively add AI infrastructure exposure, but keep sizing disciplined given short gamma and unresolved rates repricing.
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