The recent collapse of subprime auto-lenders Tricolor Holdings and debt-heavy auto-parts company First Brands has raised questions about the health of the credit market. JPMorgan’s CEO Jamie Dimon voiced caution over the high-profile crack-ups, saying his “antenna” is up. “When you see one cockroach, there’s probably more,” Dimon said on the bank’s third-quarter earnings call…
The global market’s AI euphoria may be hitting a critical inflection point. After two years of record-breaking gains, a growing chorus of financial heavyweights, from Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan to the IMF and Bank of England, are warning that what began as a genuine technological revolution is now flashing unmistakable signs of speculative excess that…
Jamie Dimon, CEO of the world’s most valuable bank and architect of the “fortress balance sheet” that helped JPMorgan emerge unscathed from the 2008 financial crisis, believes investors are downplaying the risk of a major market correction—one that could slash stocks by about a third. With stock market valuations and concentration at record highs, some…
Alibaba‘s mapping app Amap recorded more than 360 million daily active users on the first day of China’s eight-day National Day holiday on Wednesday, setting an all-time high for the platform, the company said in a statement. Alibaba and rival Meituan have been locked in a bitter battle for market share, with Amap moving away…
Since the beginning of the year, Kelvin Siu and his fiancée had waited for gold prices to decline before buying jewellery for their wedding. Last week, they finally pulled the trigger to purchase, as gold prices continued to climb to fresh highs. “We had no choice but to buy the gold dragon and phoenix bracelets…
Nvidia’s RTX6000D, its newest artificial intelligence chip tailored for the Chinese market, has seen only lukewarm demand with some major tech firms opting not to place orders, two people with knowledge of procurement discussions said. The RTX6000D, designed mainly for AI inference tasks, is seen as expensive for what it does, according to the two…
The moment investors have been waiting for all year is probably at hand. Markets have been clamoring for the Federal Reserve to resume its rate-cutting cycle, and the central bank finally looks poised to trim its target rate at this week’s policy meeting. The odds for a cut have risen steadily in the last few…
This article first appeared on GuruFocus. US stocks may be about to get another tailwind and it’s not from earnings or rate cuts. According to JPMorgan strategists led by Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou, share repurchases could jump by another $600 billion in the coming years, after already hitting an all-time high of $1.5 trillion in 2025. They…
The stock market has a key hurdle it needs to clear this week. While investors have mostly shrugged off bad news in the US job market, equities are about to be tested by coming consumer inflation data, according to Dubravko Lakos-Bujas, the global head of market strategy at JPMorgan. Should inflation figures come in hotter-than-expected…
A venture capital firm backed by Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund is taking a minority stake in an AI-powered logistics technology start-up backed by Hong Kong’s wealthiest man, as it looks for investment opportunities in the Greater China region to more than triple its assets under management by the end of 2025. Doha-based Rasmal Ventures, backed…