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Markets plunge worldwide after ‘Big Short’ investor Michael Burry reveals $1.1 billion bet against AI stocks

Wall Street expects tech stocks to take a hammering this morning—again.

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Goldman and Morgan Stanley CEOs predict corrections of up to 20%, sparking global selloff

Wall Street expects tech stocks to take a hammering this morning.

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In private credit, banks are ‘quietly preparing for some distress on the horizon’ by requiring ever-stricter legal terms for debt-ridden companies

For instance, the level of so-called lien subordination protection has doubled in a year.

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The bloodbath in stocks was ‘the end of the cutting season,’ BofA says: Now we’re on alert for the ‘fail risks’ of 2025

No major central banks are expected to cut rates again this year, BofA predicts.

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Powell gave traders a green light to double down on AI—but the markets punished Meta and Microsoft anyway 

The market declined to demonstrate irrational exuberance despite upbeat remarks from the Fed.

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Wall Street is in a risk-on mood as it waits for Powell to deliver on the ‘Fed put’

“Earlier this month, markets shifted more towards a 'central back put' regime," Christian Mueller-Glissmann at Goldman wrote in a note to clients. 

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Debt financing in AI is a signal tech’s bull market is ‘getting weaker and weaker as the days go by,’ Morgan Stanley CIO says

“The landscape has suddenly gotten a lot, lot, lot more complicated” for tech stocks going forward, Lisa Shalett says.

24.10.2025 3

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Tech stocks look shaky, and the market is ‘showing early signs of vulnerability,’ JPMorgan analyst says

A series of earnings calls from tech companies has disappointed traders.

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The U.S. government shutdown has investors flying blind when it comes to high-quality data—and they seem to like it that way

Absent federal data, investors shifted from risk-off positions into risk-on mode.

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40% of Russell 2000 companies are unprofitable, but their stock outperforms—and ‘the bubble could continue,’ one analyst says

Wall Street wants to know if the stock market is partying like it’s 1999.

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Stock traders are delighted at the prospect of Trump losing his tariff war 

Investors are increasingly convinced that the Fed’s rate cuts are now locked in. The notion that the U.S. Supreme Court may rule that Trump’s...

20.10.2025 20

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Plummeting bank stocks lead global selloff as fear of private credit ‘contagion’ moves across equities and the dollar

The fear is that "the U.S. business environment and credit quality are in a poorer state than what data suggests," ING said in a note this morning.

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Don’t fear the AI bubble, it’s about to unlock an $8 trillion opportunity according to Goldman Sachs

“Anticipated investment levels are sustainable, although the ultimate AI winners remain less clear,” Goldman says.

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Jamie Dimon issues private credit warning: ‘When you see one cockroach, there are probably more’

JP Morgan's CFO Jeremy Barnum said: “A lot of the private credit actors are large, very sophisticated, very good at credit underwriting. So I don't...

15.10.2025 10

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OpenAI’s ‘flatlining’ subs in Europe: The AI boom’s poster child may be struggling to recruit new subscribers, Deutsche Bank warns

“The poster child for the AI boom may be struggling to recruit new subscribers to pay for it,” said analysts Adrian Cox and Stefan Abrudan.

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Global markets tumble as Beijing imposes new ban on U.S. shipping and Bessent vows China ‘will be hurt the most’ if it doesn’t surrender

China holds an unexpectedly strong hand in the trade war, and the U.S.’s tariffs have been counterintuitively positive for China.

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Wall Street thinks Trump will be forced to make a deal for China’s rare earth minerals

China holds an unexpectedly strong hand in the trade war, and the U.S.’s tariffs have been counterintuitively positive for China.

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Global selloff underway as traders sour on U.S. government shutdown and doubts about the Fed grow

It’s not chaos but it’s not good.

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AI isn’t in a bubble—the cash (and the hype) are real, these analysts say

The record-high price of gold suggests that a lot of investors want a hedge against an implosion in U.S. tech stocks. Yet some analysts are saying...

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Gold’s price record is driven by the ‘debasement trade,’ China, and fear of an AI bubble, analysts say

Gold surged over $4,000/oz, up 50% this year, driven by investor fears over government debt, a weaker dollar, a buying spree by China’s central...

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Central banks will end up holding Bitcoin in their reserves even though it is ‘backed by nothing,’ Deutsche Bank predicts

As Bitcoin's price goes up, its relative volatility declines, a new analysis by Deutsche Bank argues, which makes Bitcoin more like gold.

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Gold and Bitcoin go through the roof as U.S. shutdown forces investors to trade in the dark

There is a 67% chance that the U.S. federal government shutdown will last longer than 10 days, according to bettors on Polymarket—and for stock...

06.10.2025 3

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Spending on AI is increasingly fueled by debt, Goldman Sachs says

Big Tech companies used to buy in cash. Now they’re issuing debt, too.

03.10.2025 3

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Investors dumped U.S. assets overnight in favor of gold, Bitcoin, and foreign stocks as government shutdown leaves Wall Street ‘flying blind’

The big question moving forward is, how long will the shutdown last? 

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Nobody thinks a government bond crisis is going to happen but Wall Street is talking about it anyway

France and the U.K. are the two countries flirting most with a credit crisis, analysts say.

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Goldman Sachs says this ‘Goldilocks’ stock market could be in for a shock before the end of the year

“There is a risk that Goldilocks meets one of the three bears,” the bank says.

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Trump’s overnight demand for 100% tariffs on pharmaceuticals will be ‘a meaningful commercial hit for US consumers,’ top analyst says

The good news: There are several loopholes in Trump’s proposal that mean the impact of the new taxes may be limited.

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Trump’s overnight demand for 100% tariffs on pharmaceuticals will be ‘a meaningful commercial hit for US consumers,’ top analyst says

The good news: There are several loopholes in Trump’s proposal that mean the impact of the new taxes may be limited.

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Everyone agrees stocks are suspiciously high. And everyone agrees they’re going higher anyway

The party is likely to continue despite the fact that the U.S. stock markets are dependent on the fate of just seven—or maybe even just one—company.

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Markets are selling off after Powell said six words investors don’t want to hear: ‘Equity prices are fairly highly valued’

Investors are wary of any sign that the Fed thinks “irrational exuberance”—as former Fed chair Alan Greenspan once called it—has kicked in.

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The AI boom is unsustainable unless tech spending goes ‘parabolic,’ Deutsche Bank warns: ‘This is highly unlikely’

“In the absence of tech-related spending, the U.S. would be close to, or in, recession this year,” George Saravelos says.

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Gold hit a new record high—and that’s an indicator of fear lurking within the stock market, Deutsche Bank says

Investors are both bullish on equities as well as being afraid that there are major downside risks, Deutsche’s Henry Allen says.

22.09.2025 4

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Inside the Fed’s economic projections, ‘something isn’t adding up’ according to SoFi investment chief

The Fed says the economy will grow and unemployment will decline. So why did it cut interest rates on Wednesday?

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Trump’s attacks on the Fed are hurting the dollar and driving up the price of gold

The dollar has put in such a feeble performance this year that it has begun to hurt foreign investors in U.S. assets.

17.09.2025 6

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‘Peak Goldilocks’: The markets have bought the Fed rumors—watch for them to sell on the news

Markets will move on Wednesday after Wall Street parses Cook’s statement and his Q&A for clues about future rate cuts beyond Wednesday. 

16.09.2025 10

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S&P 500 will hit 7,000 by early 2026, JPMorgan argues, as stocks climb ‘wall of worry’

Here’s why stock investors seem to love trouble so much.

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Companies are spending so much on AI that they’re cutting share buybacks, Goldman Sachs says

“Surging capex spending related to AI will likely prevent a major increase in the buyback payout ratio," the bank says.

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When AI’s ‘inevitable slowdown’ comes it could tank S&P 500’s valuation multiple by up to 20%, Goldman Sachs says

The looming danger, Goldman says, is when Amazon, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle decide to reduce their capex.

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The price of gold could hit $5,000 if Trump keeps meddling with the Fed, Goldman Sachs says

"Gold is a store of value that doesn’t rely on institutional trust,” Samantha Dart says.

04.09.2025 4

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Nvidia’s massive market cap is a ‘bubble risk,’ Deutsche Bank says: ‘We appear to be in uncharted territory’

“Nvidia’s market cap is now larger than every country’s entire listed stock exchange apart from the US, China, Japan and India,” the bank said.

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Gold hits new record and stock futures tumble as Wall Street worries over Trump’s tariff price increases

Top of the list of usual suspects is, of course, "uncertainty."

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Tech stocks head south as investors see that growth in AI may not be limitless

Nividia, Marvell Technology, and Super Micro Computer Inc., all showed unexpected weakness in August.

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Trump’s war on the Fed created a ‘twist steepener’ in the bond market and it’s hurting the dollar

The dynamic is dragging the dollar lower, in reaction to President Trump's interference in the Fed, weak growth, and inflation risk, according to...

29.08.2025 10

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Investors are ignoring the coming wave of tariff-driven inflation, Deutsche Bank warns

The prices-paid component of the ISM services survey often predicts where inflation will  be three months from now, and right now it's 4%.

27.08.2025 3

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Investors got a look at a world where the dollar isn’t a reliable reserve currency and decided they didn’t like it

Some hopes emerged as investors focused on the Fed’s institutional strength.

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Wall Street is scared that we’re looking at the end of the Fed’s independence

The bond market flinched yesterday and stocks sold off.

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Goldman Sachs says we’re on the verge of a stablecoin gold rush worth trillions

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent believes stablecoins will buoy the market for U.S. Treasuries, and the government will sell more short-term debt...

20.08.2025 10

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Sam Altman might be right: He’s not the only one who thinks the stock market is in ‘bubble’ territory

A company with a chatbot that often gets things wrong is somehow about to become the largest unicorn earth has ever seen. That does feel frothy.

19.08.2025 10

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The bond market is signalling that a September cut from the Fed is no longer locked in

“After the PPI spike yesterday, there has been some hawkish repricing of Fed expectations,” ING told clients.

15.08.2025 10

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AI spending added 0.5% to GDP growth and the Magnificent 7 stocks are driving the market

The S&P 500 is up 10% this year, driven largely by tech companies that are spending heavily on AI.

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