Memory and HBM pricing. The most cyclical part of the most cyclical industry; HBM shortages gate GPU shipments.
What to watch: DRAM and NAND contract prices; HBM allocation. It arrives monthly, and the effect typically lasts months.
It sits in tier 4 — Stock and sector specific: Moves one company or one group, not the market. Any factor here becomes tier one if it gets large enough — a bank failure and a pandemic both started as somebody's sector news.
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- AI investment cycle
- Index concentration
- Demographics and retirement flows
- Immigration policy
- Energy transition and climate policy
- Rise of passive and index investing
- Semiconductor cycle
- AI adoption and labour substitution
- Consumer preference shifts
- Data-centre power and grid constraints
- AI labour displacement and the entry-level job
- Birth rates and household formation
- Semiconductor sales and equipment book-to-bill
- EV sales share and battery pack prices
- Marriage and birth counts
- College enrolment and the demographic cliff