America's Trade Deficit Just Hit $105.6 Billion, the Widest Since Before the Tariffs

Impact · against what's priced in

The record surge in AI hardware imports confirms the massive capital expenditure wave that the market already assumes for NVIDIA and Microsoft, but it provides a concrete signal for the 'declined' acceleration thesis for Amazon. While the trade deficit creates a GDP drag, the underlying volume of semiconductor and server imports validates the demand cycle supporting the sector's top weights.

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