Big banks kick off earnings season this week, which will also bring reports from GE Aerospace, Netflix, and Taiwan Semi. In economic news, we’ll get the consumer and producer price indexes, and retail sales data.
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(Bloomberg) -- The world's most-envied retirement plan has another high-profile booster: President Donald Trump.Most Read from BloombergLindsey Graham, Senate Hawk Turned Trump Ally, Dies at 71OpenAI Engineer's 'LOL' Moment Set Stage for Legal Fight With AppleUS Launches Fresh Iran Strikes as Tehran Declares Hormuz ClosedGates Heir's Shopping App Claimed Sales It Didn't DriveCanada Gives Share of Bridge Profits to US to Get Trump Go-AheadRiding high off public enthusiasm for the Trump Accounts f
(Bloomberg) -- The world’s most-envied retirement plan has another high-profile booster: President Donald Trump.Most Read from BloombergLindsey Graham, Senate Hawk Turned Trump Ally, Dies at 71OpenAI Engineer’s ‘LOL’ Moment Set Stage for Legal Fight With AppleUS Launches Fresh Iran Strikes as Tehran Declares Hormuz ClosedGates Heir’s Shopping App Claimed Sales It Didn’t DriveCanada Gives Share of Bridge Profits to US to Get Trump Go-AheadRiding high off public enthusiasm for the Trump Accounts f
Rising inflation, Bitcoin’s four-year cycle, and excess leverage continue to draw the cryptocurrency’s price down.
It is estimated that the SpaceX IPO created more than 4,000 millionaires. SpaceX, which joined the Nasdaq-100 index on Tuesday, isn’t likely to be the only mega IPO this year. BlackRock joins the QQQ fray.
(Bloomberg) -- Commitments for AI spending should sustain the investment theme around the technology for two to three years, even as tech giants gradually turn cash-flow negative and start raising debt to fund their buildouts, according to BlackRock Inc.’s Helen Jewell. Most Read from BloombergMicrosoft’s Xbox to Shift Obsidian Studio to New ‘Fallout’ Video GameTrump Vents Anger With Iran and Warns Ceasefire May Be ‘Over’Nvidia’s $1 Trillion Slide Sends Valuation to Pre-AI Boom LevelsUS Military
It was only a matter of time. Eventually someone would want a piece of $488 billion-in-assets Invesco QQQ Trust ETF.
(Bloomberg) -- Argentina is set to make a major payment on its dollar bonds this week, pulling off a feat few investors thought possible while the country refuses to tap global debt markets. Most Read from BloombergTrump Says US Ceasefire With Iran Is ‘Over’ After StrikesGreece Offers Bounty to Catch Ravenous Fish Lured by Warming SeaUS Strikes Iran and Blocks Oil Sales in New Test of TruceChip Stocks Sink After Blistering Run as Oil Jumps: Markets WrapTwo Millennium Trading Pods Made About $3.7
AI chip startup SambaNova said on Wednesday it has raised $1 billion in a late-stage funding round led by General Atlantic at an $11 billion post-money valuation. The company makes custom chips, hardware systems and cloud services tailored for inference - the process by which models respond to user queries. • The Series F round included significant investment from Seligman Ventures, T. Rowe Price Associates and Capital Group.
(Bloomberg) -- Chip startup SambaNova Systems Inc. has raised $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation, underscoring investors’ conviction in rising demand for infrastructure tied to artificial intelligence.Most Read from BloombergGreece Offers Bounty to Catch Ravenous Fish Lured by Warming SeaChip Stocks Sink After Blistering Run as Oil Jumps: Markets WrapTwo Millennium Trading Pods Made About $3.7 Billion Last MonthUS Strikes Iran and Blocks Oil Sales, in New Test of TruceChina Sentences Officia
(Bloomberg) -- Momenta Global Ltd., a Chinese autonomous-driving firm, opened 1.8% higher in Hong Kong on Wednesday after raising HK$5.9 billion ($752 million) in an initial public offering, testing market appetite for loss-making firms that offer promising technologies.Most Read from BloombergGreece Offers Bounty to Catch Ravenous Fish Lured by Warming SeaChip Stocks Sink After Blistering Run as Oil Jumps: Markets WrapTwo Millennium Trading Pods Made About $3.7 Billion Last MonthMicrosoft’s Xbo
(Bloomberg) -- Private credit is poised to take on an even bigger role in financing the “massive amount of infrastructure investment” for artificial intelligence as companies look for capital to fund outsized expenditures, according to the head of BlackRock Inc.’s research arm.Most Read from BloombergGreece Offers Bounty to Catch Ravenous Fish Lured by Warming SeaChip Stocks Slide on Worries Rally Has Run Too Far: Markets WrapTwo Millennium Trading Pods Made About $3.7 Billion Last MonthMicrosof
Chinese robotaxi firm Momenta Global said on Tuesday it had priced its Hong Kong listing at the top end of its marketed range, aiming to raise HK$5.89 billion ($751.02 million), joining a wave of tech listings reviving the city's capital markets. Here are more details: • The self-driving technology firm is offering 19.9 million shares at an issue price of HK$295.60 per share, an exchange filing showed. It plans to use about 60% of the net proceeds from the offering to boost research and development, including upgrading its artificial intelligence computing power, expanding data storage, and scaling up its engineering team, the firm said in its prospectus.
BlackRock's fund tracking the Nasdaq-100 index will begin trading Thursday, bringing new competition to a segment long dominated by Invesco's QQQ. The iShares Nasdaq 100 ETF is set to trade under ticker IQQ and charge an expense ratio of 0.
The Texas Stock Exchange is now open for trading—sort of. The upstart exchange, backed by Wall Street heavyweights like BlackRock, is now trading a handful of test symbols on its live exchange starting today. The test is expected to last a few days before it transitions to phasing in all publicly traded stocks and funds.
(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump rang the opening bell for the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq from the Oval Office on Monday, a celebratory event to mark the launch of Trump Accounts, a new investment vehicle for children.Most Read from BloombergGreece Offers Bounty to Catch Ravenous Fish Lured by Warming SeaOil, Gas Tankers Cross Hormuz Via Oman-Side Route After U-TurnsThe Tanker Tycoon Making Millions on Hormuz Shuttle RunsModi’s Flagship Biofuel Push Faces Backlash From Motorists
(Bloomberg) -- Executives at some of Wall Street’s biggest names have faced a barrage of recent questions about whether artificial intelligence has crippled the value of their software investments.Most Read from BloombergGreece Offers Bounty to Catch Ravenous Fish Lured by Warming SeaOil, Gas Tankers Cross Hormuz Via Oman-Side Route After U-TurnsThe Tanker Tycoon Making Millions on Hormuz Shuttle RunsModi’s Flagship Biofuel Push Faces Backlash From MotoristsFIFA Allows Balogun to Play After Trum
Investors have pulled billions, funds have closed and proxy voting is down. But proponents say the strategy remains viable, even if it’s pursued more quietly.
If you retired in 2023 or 2024, your money market fund delivered yields above 5% on virtually no risk, according to CNBC. Millions of retirees responded by parking record sums in cash, treating short-term instruments as a complete income strategy. That approach worked in a specific rate ...
Veteran investor Cathie Wood is one of the most prolific traders on Wall Street and is counted among the strongest believers in Bitcoin (BTC). In fact, she once claimed that her investment firm, ARK Invest, was the first public asset manager to gain Bitcoin exposure in 2015, when the leading ...
For the first time, a U.S.-listed stock and ETF have been tokenized by a third party on a public blockchain and done so entirely within America's existing regulatory framework. Ondo Finance, the leader in tokenized securities by total value, has launched tokenized versions of BlackRock's iShares ...
The U.S. Treasury has selected two low-cost BlackRock iShares exchange-traded funds as foundational investment options for the upcoming federal "Trump Accounts" initiative to build childhood wealth.
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(Bloomberg) -- The head of BlackRock Inc.’s beleaguered private credit fund is in the process of leaving the firm, a move that follows months of losses on soured loans and revelations of a US regulatory probe into the unit’s valuation practices.Most Read from BloombergMeta Is Planning a Cloud Business to Sell AI Computing PowerSpaceX IPO Left Mirae With No Shares on MisunderstandingTrump Reports at Least $1.4 Billion in 2025 Crypto EarningsDemocratic Socialist Ousts 15-Term House Incumbent in Co
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A consortium backed by companies including BlackRock, Google and Coinbase said Tuesday that it is launching a stablecoin. Called Open USD, the new dollar-backed stablecoin is slated to be offered later this year on the Coinbase-affiliated blockchain Base, as well as on Solana and other networks.
The GM- and Tencent-backed autonomous-driving firm is seeking a nearly $9 billion valuation.
The GM- and Tencent-backed firm plans to use about 60% of proceeds to fund R&D, including AI computing and data storage
BlackRock is slated to announce its second-quarter results soon, and analysts expect its bottom line to grow at a single-digit pace.