What bubble? By this measure, the AI boom still isn't at dot-com bust levels

What bubble? By this measure, the AI boom still isn’t at dot-com bust levels

Relentless stock-market highs, astronomical valuations for OpenAI, and reports of hyperscalers taking on more debt have stoked fears that the AI boom is another tech bubble ready to pop. Even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman acknowledged this summer that investors were getting “overexcited about AI” and drew parallels with the dot-com bubble. But Capital Economics pointed…

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Top analyst says the U.S. bull market dates all the way back to the 1980s, and stocks just hit a potentially unsustainable 363% of GDP

Top analyst says the U.S. bull market dates all the way back to the 1980s, and stocks just hit a potentially unsustainable 363% of GDP

A leading Wall Street strategist is doing some calculations about the total value of U.S. stocks rocketing to a staggering 363% of GDP as of last Friday, blowing past the infamous 212% mark reached during the dotcom bubble. It’s a warning if you think it’s unsustainable, but David Kelly, chief global strategist for JP Morgan…

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Nvidia’s China-based rival posts 4,300% revenue jump as chipmakers’ earnings reported no H20 chip sales to the country

Nvidia’s China-based rival posts 4,300% revenue jump as chipmakers’ earnings reported no H20 chip sales to the country

Cambricon, a China-based semiconductor firm, posted record profit in the first half of the year, along with revenue that surged roughly 4,300%. The earnings, released late Tuesday, serve as an example of Nvidia’s growing local competition in China, as the government and market seek alternative chipmakers to gain traction in the region. Nvidia’s business in…

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How investors should be thinking as the stock market nears a P/E ratio of 30—a number that spelled disaster before the dotcom crash

How investors should be thinking as the stock market nears a P/E ratio of 30—a number that spelled disaster before the dotcom crash

Something doesn’t make sense about the current stock market boom. U.S. big caps keep soaring while the economic outlook keeps getting worse. Right now, the atmospherics, Big Momentum and AI euphoria, are winning over the negative news flow and daunting market metrics. But sooner or later the fundamentals will take charge, and then, watch out…

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Trade tensions can lead to stock market crashes

Trade tensions can lead to stock market crashes

By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Major geopolitical risk events, including trade tensions, can trigger large corrections in stock prices, the International Monetary Fund said in a report on Monday. That in turn can generate market volatility which can threaten financial stability, it said in a chapter from its forthcoming Global Financial Stability Report. The IMF…

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