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BoJ Holds Rates, Tech Earnings Spark Asian Rebound; Kospi Surges 14%
Asian equities rose on Friday, led by a 14% jump in South Korea's Kospi after its worst weekly drop in decades, as the B...
Oil Prices Fall as Hormuz Shipping Recovers, Easing Supply Fears
WTI and Brent crude fell on Friday as shipping through the Strait of Hormuz recovered to 30-35% of pre-conflict levels, ...
Gold Heads for First Monthly Gain in Five Months Despite Friday Retreat
Spot gold slipped 0.5% on Friday but is still up 1.8% in July, underpinned by consistent buying near the $4,000 mark eve...
Dubai Index Rises 0.32% on Blue-Chip Gains; Abu Dhabi Slips on Mild Profit-Taking
UAE equity markets diverged at Friday midday, with Dubai’s DFM gaining 0.32% to 5,810.68, led by Commercial Bank of Duba...
European Markets Rally on AI Revival, Set for Fourth Monthly Gain; Inflation Data Looms
The STOXX 600 surged on Friday, fueled by a global tech rebound as Microsoft and Amazon capex plans eased AI overvaluati...
Materials Stocks Surge as AI Copper Trade Lifts ASX to Fourth Straight Monthly Gain
Rising copper demand from AI infrastructure sends ASX materials stocks higher, offsetting declines in healthcare and con...
Citadel Rescues AI Hedge Fund Situational Awareness After 36-Hour Margin Crisis
Leopold Aschenbrenner’s heavily leveraged fund faced a liquidity crunch as AI stocks tumbled. An emergency auction gave ...
US Futures Surge as Amazon’s AI Cloud Strength Sparks Tech Rally; South Korea’s Kospi Leaps 17%
Amazon’s blowout cloud revenue reignites AI optimism, sending global tech shares soaring. South Korea’s Kospi jumps a hi...
How Big Tech's AI-Fuelled Bond Splurge Is Exposing Investors to a Concentrated Risk
Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft now issue nearly 30% of US investment-grade bonds, and their share of the credit mark...
Monaco Forum Shifts Blue Finance From Conviction to Market Building
The second Blue Economy and Finance Forum in Monaco moved beyond proving the ocean is investable, focusing instead on th...
Gold Gains 1% in Turkey as US-Iran Tensions Ease, Lira Holds Steady
Turkish lira traded in a narrow band against major currencies while gold prices climbed, with gram gold up 1.12% to 6,23...
BIST 100 Fluctuates in Midday Trade as Gold Hits $4,100 and Oil Sinks 7%
Turkish stocks opened higher but gave up gains by midday on Monday, with technology shares leading the decline. Global s...
Global tech rally ignites risk appetite as Microsoft results ease AI spending fears
Equity markets from Wall Street to Seoul surged on a fierce technology rebound, after Microsoft’s strong cloud numbers s...
Borsa Istanbul Opens Higher as Global AI Rally Lifts Sentiment
BIST 100 index inches up 0.13% after a 1.55% sell-off the previous day. Textile leads gains while tech recovers; analyst...
South Korea's Kospi Surges Nearly 18% as AI Optimism Triggers Tech Rally
South Korea's Kospi index jumped almost 18% on Wednesday, led by SK Hynix and Samsung shares up around 30%, as Asian tec...
European Stocks Rise on AI-Fuelled Tech Bounce as BoE Leaves Rates Unchanged
Technology shares lead gains across Europe amid hopes that a sell-off in AI-linked assets is ending, while the Bank of E...
Microsoft sets record with near $450 billion single-day market cap gain
Shares surge 15% after cloud and AI forecasts smash expectations, pushing market cap past $3.35 trillion and easing fear...
Warsaw’s WIG20 Inches Toward 2008 High as WIG Hits New Record
The Warsaw Stock Exchange’s broad WIG index set an all-time intraday high on Friday, while the blue-chip WIG20 came with...
How a 25-Year-Old AI Trader's $20B Fund Imploded in a Matter of Weeks
Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness LP rode the AI infrastructure boom to over $20B before heavy losses and ma...
Retail Investors' AI Enthusiasm Fades as Record Outflow Hits Individual Stocks
US retail investors dumped $243 million worth of single stocks in one day – the largest net daily sale since the pandemi...
Hawkish Fed, tariff shock weigh on Indian stocks as rupee and foreign flows face fresh pressure
A hawkish Federal Reserve hold, three dissenting votes for a hike, and new US tariffs on 60 countries are creating a tou...
Brazil Homebuilder Rout Opens Buying Window as Caixa Pledges R$260bn in Housing Loans
Stocks like Direcional and Tenda plunged ~15% in July on credit fears, but analysts at Itaú BBA and Bradesco BBI say the...
NZ Shares Dip While Asia Gains; Meridian Gets Wind Farm Consent, AFT Chair to Retire
New Zealand stocks ended the week lower, bucking a regional uptrend, while Meridian Energy cleared a key hurdle for a ma...
European Stocks Rise as Tech Rally and AI Optimism Offset Inflation Jitters
A broad tech rebound, fueled by Microsoft and Amazon’s AI spending plans, pushed European markets toward a fourth straig...
Rupee Surges to Three-Week High on RBI Intervention and Dollar Weakness
The Indian rupee rallied to 95.39 against the dollar, its strongest level in three weeks, as aggressive RBI dollar sales...
South Korea’s KOSPI Jumps 15% as AI Chip Rally Reignites on US Cloud Earnings
KOSPI surged past 6,400 after two days of circuit breakers, led by Samsung and SK Hynix, as stronger-than-expected Azure...
Kospi Surges 16.5% as Microsoft’s AI Profits Ease Bubble Fears
South Korean stocks staged their strongest single-day rally in years, with Samsung and SK Hynix surging over 24%, after ...
Why Stablecoin Turmoil Threatens More Than Just Crypto Portfolios
As stablecoins and DeFi deepen ties with traditional banking, the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank exposed a dangerous in...
Morgan Stanley Predicts 25% Memory Price Jump, Chip Stocks Rally
A Morgan Stanley analyst says memory chip prices will surge at least 25% in Q3, fueling a rebound in Micron, Sandisk and...
Yen Spikes 3.3% in One Hour, Triggering Suspicions of Coordinated Japan-US Intervention
The yen surged as much as 3.3% against the dollar, its biggest drop in over a year, amid a flurry of intervention clues ...