Invest 2026: Two big themes investors can't afford to ignore

In his Last Word segment, Yahoo Finance Executive Editor and Sozzi Unleashed host Brian Sozzi looks ahead to Invest 2026, Yahoo Finance's biggest event of the year. Sozzi shares how he's preparing for the event and zeroes in on two pressing concerns facing Wall Street: stretched tech valuations and the mounting business risks posed by increasingly powerful artificial intelligence.

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We are about two weeks out from our big annual invest event here at Yahoo Finance on November 12th.

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This will be our biggest lineup ever of newsmakers.

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all coinciding with the aftermath of the mid-term elections and possibly right in line with the Anthropic IPO.

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You can check out our guest list at finance.yahoo.com/invest2026.

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Now, naturally, I just don't show up to invest each year unprepared.

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I would characterize my two-week lead up as controlled insanity.

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This is where I'm at right now, entering the eye of the storm with my prep.

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There is a force field around me while I'm sitting at my desk at Yahoo Finance HQ.

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Yeah, there there actually is, at least I think.

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In the prep calls I'm having, two themes have emerged I want you to think on.

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The first is a universal view that tech valuations are frothy and that this will end badly for investors.

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And two, the fundamental risk to businesses from ever more powerful AI.

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I would be using this moment to restudy the valuation of the companies that you own.

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I would also dig into filings to see how companies are investing to mitigate AI business risk.

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A lot of this could come to a head and you don't want to be caught off guard.

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Stay Unleashed.