Wall Street's record-setting rally, fueled by Big Tech's massive AI investments, faces a key risk from rising interest rates, which reduce the present value of future profits and pressure high-multipl…
Global bond markets face a greater threat from rising rates outside the U.S. than from the Federal Reserve, with traders pricing in about 400 basis points of rate hikes across seven major markets over…
A report titled 'AI Debt Failure Will Prompt Another Wave of Fed Bailouts' warns that the failure of AI-related debt will trigger additional Federal Reserve bailouts. The document, released as a PDF, …
The S&P 500 fell 0.2% to 7,785.76 on Friday, retreating from a record high as investors weighed weak retail sales and Middle East tensions, with Applied Materials dropping 5.1% after its forecast fail…
South Korea's KOSPI briefly reclaimed 7,000 on Friday, extending a 22% rebound from its July 30 low as cooling US inflation revived demand for chipmakers Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. The index op…
Morgan Stanley's chief US economist Michael T. Gapen said in a Friday note that cooling core CPI data gives the Federal Reserve room to be patient on interest rates, but two risks—an energy shock from…
Bank of America said in a client note on Thursday that the AI buildout is inflationary, with computer prices rising 3.5% in July and software prices up about 40% over the past year, complicating Feder…
Michael Burry, the investor known for 'The Big Short,' said the unassailable positivity around AI reminds him of the dot-com and housing bubbles, warning the mania could be 'orders of magnitude more d…
In the latest Market Focus Weekly podcast from The Business Times, correspondent Howie Lim interviews Arun Sai, senior multi-asset strategist at Pictet Asset Management, who argues that the AI trade's…
Goldman Sachs analyst Robert Kaplan said the Federal Reserve's July decision to hold interest rates steady was 'absolutely correct' and urged policymakers to evaluate economic data until September wit…
Portfolio manager Knox Ridley of IO Fund argues that the recent AI-driven semiconductor correction may present a buying opportunity, citing global liquidity as a key tailwind and identifying specific …
Investors in Anthropic, the developer of the Claude AI models, are targeting a $2 trillion valuation for its October IPO, according to the Financial Times, citing the company's projected revenue of $1…
The DeFi Report, a cryptocurrency and macroeconomics analysis company, said that approximately 85% of the bear market in Bitcoin and altcoins is over, with the remaining 15% dependent on global macroe…
The EU AI Act, adopted in 2024, introduces risk-tiered regulation with fines up to €35 million or 7% of global turnover for non-compliance, while NIST's AI RMF provides a voluntary but influential fra…
The S&P 500 closed at a record 7,757.64 after tame July CPI data, but Cisco Systems Inc. shares fell 4.6% to $118.18 in after-hours trading despite record fiscal Q4 revenue of $17.3 billion, as the co…
South Korea's Kospi index rose as much as 4.8% on Thursday, extending its gain from a July 30 low to about 22% and putting it on track for a technical bull market, driven by a rebound in AI-related ch…
The S&P 500 rose 0.26% to 7,748.50 points on Wednesday, lifted by upbeat results from CoreWeave and other AI infrastructure firms, while mild inflation data reinforced bets the Federal Reserve will ho…
The rapid buildout of AI data centers is creating inflationary pressures that complicate the Federal Reserve's fight against inflation, according to a CNBC report. Tech leaders claim AI will eventuall…
Cathie Wood, CEO and CIO of ARK Invest, predicts the Federal Reserve will not tighten monetary policy in 2026, citing a 'coiled spring' economy driven by AI productivity gains and falling inflation. W…
S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 futures slipped about 0.1% in premarket trading as investors awaited earnings from Applied Materials, Lumentum Holdings, and Cisco Systems, which will test AI hardware demand, a…