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It’s another horrible day in the markets, and the usual suspects are to blame: AI, oil, and the French

“The wobbles of recent weeks all collided at once,” as Deutsche Bank’s Jim Reid said.

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AI is killing 10,000-plus jobs per month and 9% of jobs are at risk, analysts say

Everything you need to know before you reach the office this morning.

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Markets sell off worldwide as further conflict looms in the Middle East and Elon Musk cuts capex guidance

High oil prices are bad for Asia, which imports most of its fuel.

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX-Tesla merger math doesn’t add up

Everything you need to know before you reach the office this morning.

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Tech futures rise in premarket trading as SpaceX stock rockets overnight—and Wells Fargo’s ‘buy’ signal is triggered

Nasdaq futures were up 0.43% after SpaceX reported Q3 earnings that solidly beat analysts’ expectations

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Anthropic’s S-1 leaks (again)—here’s a look at the massive losses on the income statement

Everything you need to know before you reach the office this morning.

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Stocks sell off globally as France imposes riot curfews and Saudi Arabia cancels ‘Davos in the Desert’

Traders sold off after oil hit $111 per barrel this morning, an AI IPO in South Korea lost 30% on its debut, and the yield on the French 10-year bond...

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‘We’ve never seen a 44% decline in demand for a brand’: Converse is in free fall and some suspect Nike may sell it

Everything you need to know before you reach the office this morning.

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Markets: As bond yields cool off, stock buyers step in where angels fear to tread

Increasing yields in the bond market are making it more expensive for tech companies to borrow the money they need to fund AI development.

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Le risque: How the rioting in France might trigger a ‘blow up’ in the bond market

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A look inside the $52 billion hole that CoreWeave needs to climb out of

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The bloodletting in stocks is stanched as investors buy the dip and rotate out of tech

Investors also listened closely to Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s speech at the IMF—and they liked what they didn’t hear.

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CoreWeave investor explains how the loss-making AI ‘neocloud’ provider plans to claw its way out of debt

The critics are wrong, according to Evan Schlossman, principal at Neostellar Capital Corp., which holds a stake in CoreWeave.

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Suddenly, Wall Street is worried that the U.S. economy is more ‘vulnerable’ than it looks

The stock market is up 13% this year, unemployment is low, and U.S. GDP is growing, but suddenly it seems like Wall Street thinks this glass is half...

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Global wave of selling as traders flee tech stocks—and futures are signaling the bloodbath will continue today

Everything you need to know before you reach the office this morning.

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Europe, U.S. futures rise as semiconductor supplier ASML beats expectations

A lot of eyes are on the French bond market right now as Paris struggles to deal with its national debt.

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The numbers that show we are approaching the top of the AI boom

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Banks in France could collapse because ‘widening riots can cause deposit flight,’ analysts warn

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Whose side is he on? U.S. threatens to cut arms supplies to Ukraine as Trump announces ‘ceasefire’ that is immediately ignored by Russia

Everything you need to know before you reach the office this morning.

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‘What happens in Paris doesn’t stay in Paris!’ Wall Street fears ‘doom loop’ as ‘France is veering toward a full-blown civil crisis’

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As Trump eyes a new round of major combat operations in Iran, rising oil prices and European bond contagion risk spark global stock selloff

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AI is heading toward a cash-flow negative inflection point, and spending will slow in 2027, Wall Street thinks

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‘We take the unpopular stance that a bond-market crisis would be a good thing’: Wall Street is losing its patience with government debt

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OpenAI’s Altman: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology’

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GM’s Mary Barra says ‘I’m done making predictions’—but sees fully autonomous driving in 2028

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AI ‘godfather’ Yann LeCun: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is ‘deluded,’ ‘crazy,’ and doesn’t understand cybersecurity

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Trump and Tehran are boxed in until the midterms because Iran wants to keep U.S. gas prices high and the president can’t accept ‘surrender’

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Anthropic’s $2 trillion IPO prospectus has leaked—here’s a snapshot of its income statements

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Memo smearing Amodei circulated in White House before Anthropic CEO’s dinner with President Trump

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The S&P 500’s ‘biggest risk’ is companies’ ‘debt refi wall’ as bond yields top 5%

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Temu axed its $1 billion network of fake influencer accounts on Meta

Temu had spent nearly $1 billion funding partnership ads with various influencers and creators, many of which appeared to be fake accounts.

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Kalshi could be worth $42 billion—if it can survive the Supreme Court unscathed

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Nscale’s $35 billion IPO is largely silent about its biggest customer, China’s ByteDance, which wants access to Nvidia’s chips

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Suddenly, polls show the Democrats in sight of taking the Senate in the midterms

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Money-losing Nscale’s $35 billion IPO includes a $3 billion deal with Nvidia and ‘going concern’ worries

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Three guys using Anthropic’s Claude hacked into OpenAI and accessed its source code for $6,500 reward

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Europe has a new way to annoy Trump: A ‘hostile’ trade pact with Canada as an ‘associate member’ of the E.U.

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OpenAI IPO looks like a no-go: Sam Altman is discussing a new round of VC funding valuing the company at $1.2 trillion

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Global selloff in stocks as bond market enters ‘new era’ of risk

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With his credibility on the line, the Fed’s Warsh will be forced to raise interest rates this week

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Everyone agrees AI could kill us all. Congress is thinking about maybe doing something about it.

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Trump says he’ll give everyone $5,000 if Americans vote Republican—but it’s questionable whether he can deliver on the promise

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‘I am the house now’: Scott Bessent dares currency markets to move against him

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Out-of-control OpenAI agents hijacked a German site to make a secret message board

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Crude awakening: The White House’s oil numbers don’t add up

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Fed’s Goolsbee says AI is ‘not far’ from overheating the economy

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The bond market is in open revolt as Trump declines to accept an Iranian peace deal and oil hits $92 a barrel

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Trump threatens to blow Kharg Island ‘to smithereens’ as U.S. and Iran trade fresh strikes in the Gulf, driving up the price of oil

Everything you need to know before you reach the office this morning.

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Temu spent up to $962 million on ads that helped finance an army of fake creators on Meta platforms, research claims

DEK: Among the top 100 influencers collaborating with Temu, about 73 are fake, ORL researcher Vendula Prokůpková says.

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Nvidia’s massive future spending commitments ‘make the company’s risk profile more complex,’ Saxo says

Everything you need to know before you reach the office this morning.

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