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Amazon shares shed twelve percent in June, and the culprit isn't weakness — it's ambition. The company announced it will spend two hundred billion dollars this year on its artificial intelligence buildout, a capital commitment so large it rattled near-term earnings expectations and sent investors to the exits, at least temporarily.
That spending figure connects directly to a broader conversation about where the real AI money is flowing. Blue Whale Growth Fund's manager positioned early in Nvidia and SK Hynix while trimming software exposure before most of the Street caught on. His thesis is straightforward: follow the infrastructure, follow the chips, follow the capital — not the applications layer.
Meanwhile, small-cap stocks are finally waking up. Goldman Sachs strategists point to three catalysts behind the Russell two thousand's recent outperformance — artificial intelligence tailwinds reaching smaller companies, a resilient economic backdrop, and a genuine surge in biotechnology. After years of underperformance relative to large caps, the rotation appears to have some structural legs beneath it.
That's the tape. Markets Desk, signing off the floor.
