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Jun 18, 2026 12:10 PM

Take Chips Off The Table Before AI Trade Turns, UBS Warns

The UBS Group's trading desk sent a warning to clients late Wednesday, urging investors to “reduce risk meaningfully” in tech stocks as the AI trade grows increasingly crowded.

The bank’s traders flagged a troubling shift in how markets are pricing AI-related names, particularly in semiconductors. 

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“The market backdrop, and the narratives around the AI trade in semis, have now created an extreme and increasingly binary framework of ‘winners’ versus ‘losers.’ There is very little room for debate around the merits of anything in between,” the desk wrote, per CNBC. 

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