Episode summary
Bloomberg Surveillance TV: July 7th, 2026 | Bloomberg Surveillance
Bloomberg Surveillance
· · 29 min · Hosts: Tom Keene, Paul Sweeney, Lisa Mateo, Michael Barr · Guests: Julian Emmanuel, Torsten Slok, Ulf Kristersson
Summary
The discussion centered on how the AI trade is still driving markets, even as investors rotate within it. The analyst argued that Samsung’s record profits and Micron’s margin strength show the underlying AI theme remains intact, but positioning has made the short-term reaction more erratic. He said the recent pullback in some chip names is a healthy digestion and that capital is moving toward big spenders and still-reasonably valued laggards.
A second theme was macro relief from lower oil prices. The analyst said crude’s retreat back to about $70 or below is “unequivocally positive” for consumers and broadly disinflationary, which should help asset-market volatility and reduce the urgency of Fed tightening. He argued the market is misreading the Fed’s reduced communication as more hawkish than intended.
Later, Torsten Slok argued the key question is when AI shows up in profit margins outside the Magnificent 7. He said the S&P 493 has not yet seen the payoff, creating a mismatch between current valuations and future earnings assumptions. The show closed with Ulf Kristersson pressing the case for stronger European defense spending, more support for Ukraine, and continued NATO burden-sharing.
Key takeaways
- The analyst said the AI trade remains intact, but near-term market moves are being driven by positioning and profit-taking rather than a break in the story.
- The analyst called the drop in oil prices back toward $70 a “profound positive” that should ease consumer pressure and help keep inflation in check.
- The analyst said the Fed is unlikely to move this year and that the market is overreading reduced central-bank communication as hawkishness.
- Torsten Slok said the crucial AI valuation risk is whether profit-margin gains outside the Magnificent 7 arrive slowly enough to make today’s earnings expectations too aggressive.
- Slok said AI is already a major factor in markets, GDP, and Treasury demand because hyperscaler debt issuance is crowding out other fixed-income buying.
- The prime minister of Sweden said Europe should increase defense investment, sustain support for Ukraine, and take a bigger share of NATO responsibility.
Notable quotes
“Stocks have become more volatile as the wall of worry is large around AI adoption, spend regulation, profits, sustainability, and capital raise”
“the sentiment around the AI trade in in our uh view is probably as cautious as it was in the first quarter of the year”
“The retreat back to $70 and below is almost one of the fastest spike on wines on record and it's absolutely unequivocally positive”
“There's a mismatch between current earnings expectations and the actual time firms need to generate ROI on AI investments”
“what really is critical is that now we need to see profit margins go up outside the Magnificent 7”
How the episode opens
Bloomberg Audio Studios podcasts radio news. This is the Bloomberg Surveillance Podcast. I'm Jonathan Pharaoh along with Lisa Abramitz and Amarie Hordern.
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Subscribe to the podcast on Apple, Spotify, or anywhere else you listen. And as always on the Bloomberg terminal and the Bloomberg Business app. Judian Emanuel of EverOR maintaining a 7750 S&P year-end price target, writing, "Stocks have become more volatile as the wall of worry is large around AI adoption, spend regulation, profits, sustainability, and capital raise.
Julian joins us now for more. Julian, good morning.
Good morning. We often say on this program you can learn something about the data and you can learn something from how the market responds to the data. This morning numbers from Samsung fantastic record quarterly profits stock gets hammered.
What can you learn from that this morning? So what you can learn is the sentiment around the AI trade in in our uh view is probably as cautious as it was in the first quarter of the year coming into the reporting season in April that actually caused the market to pivot higher. Um it really is this every one of these aspects has now become a glass half empty type of view.
But at the end of the day, what we think that this earning season will show is that like this report last night, there is incredible strength and you know, if if positioning gets to one way, it gets taken off. But the longer term trend, the fact that these uh stocks and and this theme is driving financial markets in the global economy higher is intact.
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Topics
- global markets
- equity strategy
- quantitative outlook
- macroeconomic outlook
- sweden politics
Companies and tickers mentioned
- EVR
- APO
- Evercore ISI
- Apollo Global Management
- Bloomberg
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