Easing Inflation and AI Rally Push Stocks Toward Records | The Close 8/13/2026
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Bloomberg Television brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are Wells Fargo CIO, Wealth & Investment Darrell Cronk, JLL President, Retail Advisory Services Naveen Jaggi, Barclays Managing Director, Senior Retail Analyst Adrienne Yih, Bluestone Equity Partners Founder & Managing Partner Bobby Sharma, Janus Henderson Head, Multi-Asset Macro Investing Mike Contopoulos, Susquehanna International Group Senior Equity Research Analyst Mehdi Hosseini, Mizuho Securities Managing Director, Restaurants Equity Research Nick Setyan, JAB Holdings Chief Investment Officer Anant Bhalla, & VMG Partners Managing Partners Robin Tsai.
Nauti's Take
A friendly market keeps AI budgets open, and small teams feel that directly: vendors keep funding tooling, credits and cheaper entry tiers. The catch is the evidence base, because share prices say nothing about the revenue or margins of individual AI products.
Anyone spending should tie it to measured outcomes such as time saved or higher utilisation instead of market sentiment.
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