Bloomberg Surveillance · Wednesday, August 5, 2026
Alicia Levine highlights industrials as an attractive sector due to a combination of AI-driven capital expenditures and government incentives. She notes that projections for data center and AI build-outs indicate one trillion dollars in spending next year, directly benefiting 20% of the S&P 500 companies in the industrial sector.
“So you have, like it's a perfect storm. You have the capex incentives from the one big beautiful Bill which are rolling through the economy and are definitely helping hard assets that's industrials, as well as the funding from the hyperscalers.”
“So if you think about what you need to build a data center or what you need to kind of to build out the AI. On the hard asset side, the projections for next year is one trillion dollars in spending that is going directly into the P and L of twenty percent of the S and P. So that's why we like it.”