Show Notes
Josh Schafer is an investment writer and strategist at Barron's, and the author of the Searching for Signals Substack. He joins Phil Rosen on Full Signal to discuss why market breadth is weakening even near record highs, how Meta's Muse is fueling the AI rally, the rise of consumer AI agents, and his top stock picks for the year ahead. This episode is sponsored by Bloomberg: http://bloomberg.com/equityindices Subscribe to Opening Bell Daily: https://www.openingbelldailynews.com/subscribe Follow Phil on X: https://x.com/philrosenn Follow Phil on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/philrosen/Timestamps: 0:00 - Market breadth narrowing 2:49 - Why stocks ignore bond yields 4:22 - Meta Muse 6:00 - Fee AI products vs. monetization 11:16 - Would consumers pay for AI agents? 13:39 - AI regulation and existential risk 16:32 - AI token prices 19:08 - Trump's tech CEO seating chart 22:09 - Intel 23:32 - Cybersecurity 26:01 - Walmart 28:38 - Under-the-radar sports stock 31:37 - Searching for Signals#podcast #investing #markets #tech #ai #macro #stocks #bitcoin #fed
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