Ratings agency Fitch warns of significant AI-related market correction risks. Unprecedented AI spending and soaring tech valuations raise concerns about future returns. Geopolitical risks, including US-Iran conflict and El Nino, also pose credit threats. Global growth is expected to slow, with inflation impacted by energy prices. Highly indebted nations face particular vulnerability to these compounding risks.

The US credit outlook is increasingly levered to AI investment confidence, while consumer-facing sectors and private credit markets face mounting headwinds

Fitch says a possible AI market correction is emerging as a major global credit risk, citing stretched valuations and $182bn of Big Tech bonds.