Today’s surge in oil prices, prompted by Donald Trump’s declaration that the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the US and Iran is “over”, has taken a toll on the S&P 500. Our sense, though, is that oil prices will generally exert a much smaller influence on US equities than they did in the first month of the Iran war, as they keep playing second fiddle to sentiment around AI.
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