Fed’s Bowman Warns of Stock Correction If AI Bets Disappoint

Nov 10, 2026 15:30 ET · 1h ago

TREE NEWS update: Federal Reserve Governor and Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman said financial markets pose a risk to economic activity, including a sharp drop in share prices if returns on artificial intelligence investment fall short. She flagged risks from a “significant repricing of equity valuations” driven by AI returns and a sharp rise in long-term private-sector interest rates. Bowman also voiced concern over rapidly rising AI-related debt, with corporate bonds, private credit and project finance growth likely to exceed $800 billion this year. She hinted she could support a rate hike at the December FOMC meeting.

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Bowman's warning is notable less for the equity-risk point than for the pairing: an AI repricing scenario alongside a possible December hike, which leaves little policy cushion if both pressures arrive together. The debt figure she cites matters because AI capex is increasingly funded through corporate bonds, private credit and project finance rather than retained earnings, so a valuation reset and a financing-cost shock would hit the same balance sheets. Whether supervisors treat that leverage as a systemic concern, and whether the December meeting delivers the hike she hints at, are the open questions.

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