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🚨 Alert #2426 Wed Aug-12 14:30:22
Cost of insuring against default by AI hyperscalers hits record levels
Credit default swap spreads for major AI hyperscalers including Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft have hit record levels, signaling investor concern over the sustainability of their massive capital expenditure on AI infrastructure.
🎯 Tickers & verdicts
| ticker | direction | verdict | since close | 30m | day lo | day hi | intraday px |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| primary GOOGL | ▼ bearish | FRESH | +0.64% | +0.15% | 341.04 | 346.61 | |
| SMCI | · unclear | PRICED | +10.70% | +1.39% | 33.94 | 38.10 | |
| MU | · unclear | PRICED | +5.12% | +1.00% | 886.10 | 934.82 | |
| AMD | · unclear | PRICED | +3.05% | +1.12% | 477.04 | 491.04 | |
| QCOM | · unclear | PRICED | +2.54% | +0.15% | 161.22 | 166.81 | |
| AVGO | · unclear | PRICED | +2.52% | +0.38% | 414.75 | 426.56 | |
| TSM | · unclear | PRICED | +2.14% | -0.21% | 427.00 | 432.60 | |
| ASML | · unclear | PRICED | +2.12% | +0.06% | 1808.64 | 1837.51 | |
| peer NVDA | · unclear | REPRICING | +1.51% | +0.06% | 219.15 | 224.84 | |
| MSFT | ▼ bearish | FRESH | -0.87% | 0.00% | 488.82 | 501.46 | |
| PLTR | · unclear | REPRICING | -0.71% | +1.14% | 168.58 | 173.70 | |
| META | ▼ bearish | FRESH | +0.36% | +0.08% | 578.33 | 602.08 | |
| AMZN | ▼ bearish | FRESH | +0.30% | -0.04% | 267.14 | 273.99 |
🧭 Decisions
| strategy | ticker | action | side | rationale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | GOOGL | ○ skip | — | verdict FRESH, direction bearish -> short GOOGL (other: Credit default swap spreads for major AI hyperscalers including Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft have hit record levels, signaling investor concern over the sustainability of their massive capital expenditure on AI infrastructure.) [skipped: signal conflict — wanted short, conflict-hold — mat 65 ties incumbent S1 long GOOGL, incumbent held (strictly higher materiality required to flip)] → close -0.68% |
| S2 | - | ○ skip | — | no counterparty in universe |
| S3 | NVDA | ○ skip | — | direction unclear for NVDA → close +1.15% |
| S4 | GOOGL | ○ skip | — | overnight drift: short GOOGL at close, exit next close (other: Credit default swap spreads for major AI hyperscalers including Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft have hit record levels, signaling investor concern over the sustainability of their massive capital expenditure on AI infrastructure.) [skipped at close: outranked — mat 65 short lost to mat 75 short (decision 9920) for S4 GOOGL exiting 2026-08-13] |
📈 Trades
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📖 Glossary
- S1 primary — trades the alert's primary ticker in the direction the article itself indicates; exits at the same day's close.
- S2 counterparty — trades the inferred counterparty ticker (weakest signal, LLM-inferred sympathy); exits at the same day's close.
- S3 peer — trades an inferred peer ticker (also LLM-inferred sympathy); exits at the same day's close.
- S4 overnight — holds the primary ticker from today's close to the NEXT day's close.
- Verdicts are decided top-to-bottom, first match wins; REPRICING is also the fallback when nothing else matches (2026-08-08 #220).
- UNKNOWN — a needed price input (move since close or move in the last 30m) is missing.
- PRICED — |move since previous close| ≥ 2.0%: already reflected in price.
- REPRICING — |move in the last 30m| ≥ 0.5%: the tape is actively moving on it. Also covers a quieter move — |move since previous close| in [1.0, 2.0) with a quiet last-30m tape: still developing, not yet priced.
- FRESH — |move since previous close| < 1.0%: a genuinely new move.
- materiality — how market-moving the story was judged, 0-100 — alerts require materiality ≥ 60.