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The U.S. equity market is in a mechanical repricing cycle. The convergence of the 2027 earnings-growth cliff, the discount-rate regime shift, and the AI capex circularity will compress concentrated tech valuations by 10–15% within the November 2026 – May 2027 window. The 20%+ tail is gated by the AI capex → revenue conversion.
U.S. export controls aimed at leading-edge chips inadvertently created a pricing-power windfall in China's mature-node foundries. The mechanism: a deliberate policy line, state capital reallocation, and an unmodeled AI demand shock.