Coatue October 2025 State of the Markets Update 60 Pages on Public Markets every investor should read Get the Full Deck below ⬇️ 1) AI continues to drive markets higher while... 2) In addition, new names are winning the AI Race 3)... See more

On that template, AI looks like it has already finished the first act. The outer ring has cracked: neoclouds, “AI infra” smaller caps, and nuclear or power-adjacent trades are down 50% or more from their highs. That’s your paper-railway phase. The core of the story, Nvidia and a handful of megacaps, is still treated as the “safe” way to own AI, but

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When I was jotting down notes for this piece I started listing out all the best observable reasons 2026 could be a bad year.

• the labor market is weakening


• AI capex can’t continue at this rate and is propping up the market


• stocks are expensive and multiples will contract


• private credit boogeyman


• inflation returns