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8/19/25, 10:52 AM Can UAE’s value stocks hold their own against meme-frenzy investing?
Can UAE’s value stocks hold their own against meme-frenzy investing?
Latest US markets surge are built around AI and meme-stocks – that’s high risk
Last updated: August 19, 2025 | 08:08
Sameer Lakhani, Special to Gulf News
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Traders at the Dubai Financial Market (DFM).
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By now it’s bit of a tired theme.
Value investors of yore return from their pearly gates and observe the markets that they helped create. What they see are meme stocks; the ‘Mag 7’; crypto mania; AI
frenzy and a go-go theme dominated by young newly crafted millionaires.
Higher tariffs, which have led to higher inflation and lower job creation in the US, have been shrugged off by investors.
A ‘buy the dip’ algorithm has meant that not only have the worst stocks outperformed beaten down profitable companies, but even when there has been a solid
performance by the value sector, they have been dismissed as a rare phenomenon in an otherwise ‘flash’ dominated market.
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