• MajinBlayze@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    The parts of the economy stock market that would be heavily impacted by oil prices are already in the gutter.

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        Segregate the market into “AI” and “non-AI” segments for simplicity.

        Looking at the thousand or so “investors” who’s money matters at this scale, there’s no point in selling “non-AI” stock to fund “AI” investments already, these markets are already low. Adding the Iran war to that isn’t changing anything. More likely, they are borrowing against existing “AI” stock and reinvesting that (oversimplification, but speaking broadly). Additionally, one of the big sources of these loans is Saudi Arabia, which benefits from the higher oil prices.

        The only other way in which oil prices impact “AI” is through energy costs, which impacts the immediate profitability of “AI”, which “investors” have shown they are unconcerned with.

        Or, to simplify,

        Nothing about the “AI” speculative bubble is likely to be impacted by the war in Iran.