Morning Bid: Ukraine ceasefire hopes soften US inflation blow
By Jamie McGeever February 12th, 2025 Feb 13 (Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in Asian markets. Investors banking on the recent decline in U.S. bond yields and the dollar underpinning a rally across risk assets got a stark reminder in the shape of punchy U.S. inflation on Wednesday that interest rates won’t be coming down any […]
Donald Trump’s trade remedies reflect America’s troubled reality
“Our partners shouldn’t blame us for a shift aimed at solving the problems they have helped cause” by Robert Lighthizer Financial Times October 31 2024 Critics of Donald Trump’s popular tariff proposals claim they will be inflationary and harm the economy. The fact that this never happened during Trump’s first term, when we raised tariffs, […]
Why Apple may get the ‘last laugh’ in AI as rivals double down on spending craze
By Therese Poletti February 10th, 2025 Most big technology companies indicated this earnings season that their capital spending on artificial-intelligence data centers is continuing unabated. That makes Apple Inc. stand out even more for how much it’s not spending. Investors once worried that Apple was behind the pack in AI because it wasn’t spending as much […]
The winners of hyperscalers’ big spending plans will continue to be chip companies like Nvidia
By Therese Poletti Investors still worrying about chip stocks in light of fears of lower spending on AI can breathe a sigh of relief now that Amazon has joined in with three other Big Tech companies committed to massive capital spending. In its fourth-quarter earnings call Thursday, Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) said it spent $26.3 billion […]
DeepSeek Fails to Deter $325 Billion Gamble of Century: Dave Lee
Summary by Bloomberg AI Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Microsoft are projected to spend a combined $325 billion in capital expenditures in 2025, an unprecedented amount. The majority of Amazon’s spending will be geared towards building capacity for AI, with CEO Andy Jassy stating that AI represents a “once in a lifetime” opportunity. Despite the massive […]
Amazon, Like Microsoft, Says It Can’t Keep Up With AI Demand
Summary by Bloomberg AI ▪ Amazon warns of capacity constraints in its cloud computing division despite plans to invest $100 billion this year. ▪ CEO Andy Jassy says growth will be “lumpy” due to delays in getting hardware and insufficient electricity, echoing concerns of rival Microsoft. ▪ Amazon spent $26.3 billion in capital expenditures in […]
DeepSeek’s impact is huge – but it’s not game over for US rivals
The Chinese AI could spur adoption of the technology, increasing demand for chips from the likes of Nvidia Alok Sama February 2nd, 2025 The Sunday Times A week ago you might have been excused for thinking that a DeepSeek was an unusually cerebral Sikh gentleman. That was before its founder, the enigmatic Liang Wenfeng, wiped […]
Nvidia Positioned For $400 Billion AI Boom With Advanced GPUs, New Product Launches Driving Revenue Growth, Say Analysts
Anusuya Lahiri (Benzinga Newswire) Wall Street analysts rerated NVIDIA Corp(NASDAQ:NVDA) after U.S. tech stocks plunged Monday as Chinese open-source artificial intelligence platform DeepSeek made the market jittery over the AI technology investment prospects in the U.S. tech firms. Tigress Financial analyst Ivan Feinseth upgraded Nvidia from Buy to Strong Buy and raised the price target from $170 to $220. DA Davidson analyst Gil Luria maintained a Hold rating on Nvidia […]
What Americans Need to Know About the US Deficit and Impact
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DeepSeek Upends Silicon Valley Assumptions About AI Costs
Summary by Bloomberg AI A Chinese AI startup called DeepSeek has released an open-source AI model called R1 that rivals or outperforms leading US developers, sparking concerns about the US lead in AI development. The tech industry is trying to understand how DeepSeek achieved this feat, with some suspecting that the company built its chatbot […]