🏦 BlackRock: 2026 Midyear Global Investment Outlook
BlackRock Investment Institute's midyear outlook frames the central question as whether AI accelerates growth into a new era of abundance or scarcity in power, labor, capital, and materials dominates, citing front-loaded AI capital spending, rising financial-system leverage, and increasing market concentration in a handful of forces.
Why it matters: BlackRock argues that diversifying away from AI-driven market concentration is now a larger active allocation decision than before, meaning investors relying on broad index exposure carry more idiosyncratic risk than in prior cycles.
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