Fed's Warsh Opens Door to Rate Hike as Oil Slides and AI Stocks Rally
Markets

Fed's Warsh Opens Door to Rate Hike as Oil Slides and AI Stocks Rally

Fed Chair Kevin Warsh left the door open to tightening after a hot core PCE reading, while Brent slipped on Hormuz hopes...

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Fed's Warsh Signals Higher Rates Possible as Markets Reprice Hike Odds
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Fed's Warsh Signals Higher Rates Possible as Markets Reprice Hike Odds

Warsh's Jackson Hole debut pushes traders to see a near-60% chance of a September hike; stocks drift while two-year yiel...

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Iran Truce Expiry Lifts Oil Above $90 and Hits Global Stocks as Bond Yields Surge
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Iran Truce Expiry Lifts Oil Above $90 and Hits Global Stocks as Bond Yields Surge

Brent's rise above $90 and a 30-year US yield near 5.33% punished equities in Europe and the US, with the DAX and Nasdaq...

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Rising Treasury Yields Meet Record Leverage, Testing Market Stability
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Rising Treasury Yields Meet Record Leverage, Testing Market Stability

Thirty-year Treasury yields above 5.2%, record margin debt and a $3tn AI selloff are combining into an early-warning sig...

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Wall Street futures edge higher as oil drops before July PPI and Fed clues
Markets

Wall Street futures edge higher as oil drops before July PPI and Fed clues

U.S. stock futures nudged up Thursday while Brent crude fell 1.9%. Investors await July producer prices and Fed speakers...

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Markets Hold Breath as US CPI Test Looms for New Fed Chair Kevin Warsh
Economy

Markets Hold Breath as US CPI Test Looms for New Fed Chair Kevin Warsh

Investors brace for US inflation data that will determine whether the Federal Reserve raises rates in September. AI stoc...

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AI Semiconductor Sell-Off Forces Hedge Fund Liquidation, Stokes Capex Anxiety
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AI Semiconductor Sell-Off Forces Hedge Fund Liquidation, Stokes Capex Anxiety

A sell-off in memory and chip stocks nearly forced hedge fund Situational Awareness into a fire sale, as investors quest...

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Palantir's Stock Jumps 30% on 'Otherworldly' Q2 Revenue, Pushing CEO Alex Karp Up 67 Billionaire Ranks
Companies

Palantir's Stock Jumps 30% on 'Otherworldly' Q2 Revenue, Pushing CEO Alex Karp Up 67 Billionaire Ranks

Palantir's commercial revenue surged 149% as Q2 sales and earnings blew past estimates, erasing year-to-date losses and ...

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German Financial Press Veers Between AI Panic and Dividend Comfort
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German Financial Press Veers Between AI Panic and Dividend Comfort

A tour of Germany's financial media: AI-stock warnings clash with dividend-hunting covers, Deutsche Bahn posts a rare pr...

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Brent Slides 4.9% as Trump Pauses Iran Strikes, Calming Stocks for Now
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Brent Slides 4.9% as Trump Pauses Iran Strikes, Calming Stocks for Now

Brent crude fell to $83.59 after Trump said he would hold off on new Iran strikes, lifting stocks and easing inflation f...

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Apple Briefly Hits $5 Trillion Market Value, Joining Nvidia at the Top
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Apple Briefly Hits $5 Trillion Market Value, Joining Nvidia at the Top

Apple's shares briefly pushed its market value above US$5 trillion, making it the second company after Nvidia to reach t...

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Rentokil Slump, AI Reversals and SpaceX: A Week for UK Investors
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Rentokil Slump, AI Reversals and SpaceX: A Week for UK Investors

The Investors' Chronicle podcast breaks down Rentokil's post-results plunge, the retreat in AI and semiconductor stocks,...

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Former OpenAI Researcher’s AI Hedge Fund Implodes; Citadel Takes Over Portfolio
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Former OpenAI Researcher’s AI Hedge Fund Implodes; Citadel Takes Over Portfolio

Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness LP collapsed under concentrated AI bets and margin calls after a July AI s...

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South Korea's Kospi Surges Nearly 18% as AI Optimism Triggers Tech Rally
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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...

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European Stocks Rise on AI-Fuelled Tech Bounce as BoE Leaves Rates Unchanged
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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...

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How a 25-Year-Old AI Trader's $20B Fund Imploded in a Matter of Weeks
Markets

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...

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Kospi Surges 16.5% as Microsoft’s AI Profits Ease Bubble Fears
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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 ...

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Ex-OpenAI Researcher’s $45bn AI Hedge Fund Forced to Liquidate After Dual-Sided Losses
Markets

Ex-OpenAI Researcher’s $45bn AI Hedge Fund Forced to Liquidate After Dual-Sided Losses

Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness fund, which bet heavily on AI infrastructure and shorted software, is unwi...

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Semiconductor Sell-Off Pushes Nasdaq-100 to Edge of Correction
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Semiconductor Sell-Off Pushes Nasdaq-100 to Edge of Correction

A 24.5% plunge in the PHLX Semiconductor Index since late June has dragged the Nasdaq-100 within 0.6 percentage points o...

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'The Market Would Crash': Big Short Investor Steve Eisman Warns AI Capex Dependency Could Trigger a Nvidia-Led Selloff
Markets

'The Market Would Crash': Big Short Investor Steve Eisman Warns AI Capex Dependency Could Trigger a Nvidia-Led Selloff

Steve Eisman warns that the stock market's reliance on AI infrastructure spending is so extreme that any pullback by hyp...

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Kospi Plunges 10.8% as Chinese Chip Competition Rattles Asian Markets
Markets

Kospi Plunges 10.8% as Chinese Chip Competition Rattles Asian Markets

A sharp selloff in Asian semiconductor stocks, led by a near 11% crash in South Korea's Kospi, reignites fears that Chin...

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CAC 40 Edges Higher as AI Chip Profit-Taking Weighs; Safran Soars, LVMH Slips
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CAC 40 Edges Higher as AI Chip Profit-Taking Weighs; Safran Soars, LVMH Slips

The Paris bourse eked out a modest gain as investors locked in profits on AI and semiconductor names, while falling oil ...

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Nikkei Rebounds as Oil Slump Boosts Cyclicals; AI Stocks Struggle
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Nikkei Rebounds as Oil Slump Boosts Cyclicals; AI Stocks Struggle

Tokyo's Nikkei rose 0.5% on Monday, buoyed by a drop in crude prices after the U.S. paused strikes on Iran, while AI and...

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Asian Equities Mixed as Oil Surge Rekindles Inflation Fear; AI Rally Lifts Wall Street
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Asian Equities Mixed as Oil Surge Rekindles Inflation Fear; AI Rally Lifts Wall Street

Asian stock markets ended divided on Wednesday, with Japan and Hong Kong falling while Korea and Australia gained, as a ...

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