Investors / stance tracking
What Torsten Slok is saying
Chief Economist, Apollo Global
3 dated public stances tracked since 2026-07-07, most recently 2026-07-09. Each line carries the date and the venue it came from; quotation marks mean verbatim. Methodology.
The stances below are c8alpha's editorial distillation of Torsten Slok's public commentary — television, podcasts, and interviews — compiled by automated transcript analysis and dated to the episode they came from. They may lag the speaker's current view and may contain extraction errors. Text in quotation marks is verbatim from the episode; everything else is our paraphrase. Torsten Slok is not affiliated with c8alpha and has not endorsed this page. Nothing here is investment advice.
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2026-07-09
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| Theme | Stances | Lean | Mix | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LONG-DURATION TECH AND SOFTWARE EQUITIES | 1 | 1 bearish | 2026-07-09 | |
| VALUE STOCKS | 1 | 1 bullish | 2026-07-07 |
Tracked stances
bullish / bearish is a view they argued; owns / short is a position they said they hold.
2026-07-09
LONG-DURATION TECH AND SOFTWARE EQUITIES
bearish
CNBC Television · video
Rate shock is not over — sustained core inflation (decoupled from falling oil) will keep rates higher for longer, which directly compresses NPV of long-duration cash flows concentrated in tech and software
“tech, software, anything that has long duration cash flows are going to be more sensitive now”
Significant slowdown in AI payoff could tip economy into a recession, says Apollo Global's Slok
2026-07-07
VALUE STOCKS
bullish
Bloomberg Television · video
AI concentration is now the dominant factor across equities, IG credit, high yield, and venture capital, so value stocks — which do not embed an AI productivity premium — provide downside protection if AI fails to deliver the profit margin expansion investors…
“value investing is indeed one place to hide”
Slok Says Profit Margins Outside Mag 7 Need to Rise
2026-07-07
long Investment Grade Credit / short USTS
pair
Bloomberg Television · video
Hyperscalers issuing $700B+ in IG corporate debt are structurally crowding out investment-grade bond managers' demand for US Treasuries, as IG buyers now substitute hyperscaler paper for sovereigns and financials
“the hyperscalers are issuing so much IG corporate debt that this is crowding out demand for US treasuries”
Slok Says Profit Margins Outside Mag 7 Need to Rise
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