Why Record Highs And A Near-Zero VIX Should Worry You

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq hit record highs, yet a narrow group of AI giants like Nvidia masks broader weakness.

The S&P has now joined the Nasdaq at record highs, and Tim Knight says it is officially the bulls' market to lose, they've got the baton and there's no reason they shouldn't keep running. But the picture underneath is stark: this is a very, very bifurcated market where a tiny handful of multi-trillion-dollar tech names are holding up everything, and the reason they can is AI. The Dow and the small-cap Russell are nowhere near their highs, thousands of points below in the Dow's case.

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00:00 Precious metals try to diverge

01:20 A long-term inflection point

03:06 The S&P joins the record highs

03:20 The bulls have the baton

04:00 The Dow and small caps lag badly

04:40 A very bifurcated market

04:50 One sector holds up everything

06:00 AMD and the backorder story

06:40 NVIDIA nears 6 trillion

07:30 The bonds nobody's watching

08:30 14% of the budget is interest

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