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A striking technical pattern is emerging as midterm elections approach: the fate of artificial intelligence (AIQ) (AIEQ) stocks appears increasingly tethered to Republican control of the Senate, Renaissance Macro Research Chairman Jeff DeGraff said on Wednesday.
In an interview with CNBC, DeGraff identified this correlation with his proprietary charts tracking GOP Senate control probabilities aligning almost perfectly with the price action of major semiconductor (SMH) (SOX) (SOXX) indexes and Goldman Sachs's broad AI basket. "The relationship between the ability of the Republicans to hold the Senate and the performance of AI seems to be ever increasingly more linked," DeGraff said.
The market psychology is straightforward—any uptick in the perceived probability of Republicans losing Senate control is being interpreted by traders as a structural negative for AI shares. While backlash against data centers appears somewhat bipartisan on the surface, the market is pricing it differently, assigning meaningful risk premiums based on which party holds power.
DeGraff cautioned investors against assuming the sector will simply snap back to its earlier highs, invoking an old market saying: "You never step in the same river twice." How long this political premium persists—"whether it's just bluster and talk"—remains to be seen, but for now, the trading community is treating Senate control as a leading indicator for AI's near-term trajectory, he told CNBC.
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