Hiring AI Experts Boosts Bonds, Stock Performance, Barclays Says

Companies hiring more experts in artificial intelligence are seeing their stocks and bonds outperform this year, according to Barclays Plc.

The bank looked at how many job postings a firm has seeking AI experts, as opposed to AI generalists, versus the median for their sector. It then compared the level of AI expert hires to the firms’ equity and credit returns in 2026.