Texas Instruments Incorporated (NASDAQ:TXN) is among the 10 High-Flying AI Stocks to Buy. On April 9, Stifel upgraded Texas Instruments Incorporated (NASDAQ:TXN) to Buy from Hold with a price target of $250, citing the company’s positioning at the start of a new analog upcycle. After a prolonged investment phase that weighed on profitability, the firm believes […]
Texas Instruments Incorporated (NASDAQ:TXN) is among the 10 High-Flying AI Stocks to Buy. On April 9, Stifel upgraded Texas Instruments Incorporated (NASDAQ:TXN) to Buy from Hold with a price target of $250, citing the company’s positioning at the start of a new analog upcycle. After a prolonged investment phase that weighed on profitability, the firm believes […]
Hong Kong online shopping platform HKTVmall founder Ricky Wong Wai-kay has broken his silence over a medical project involving controversial animal experiments, saying that the research he supported was meant to reduce elderly patients’ suffering from illness. Wong, vice-chairman and group chief executive officer of Hong Kong Technology Venture Company, the platform’s parent company and a listed f...
Hong Kong online shopping platform HKTVmall founder Ricky Wong Wai-kay has broken his silence over a medical project involving controversial animal experiments, saying that the research he supported was meant to reduce elderly patients’ suffering from illness. Wong, vice-chairman and group chief executive officer of Hong Kong Technology Venture Company, the platform’s parent company and a listed firm, wrote in a social media post on Saturday that its experiments were intended to improve the...
(RTTNews) - European shares edged lower on Monday after weekend peace talks in Islamabad failed and the U.S. Navy moved to block maritime traffic to and from Iran through the Strait of Hormuz.
(RTTNews) - European shares edged lower on Monday after weekend peace talks in Islamabad failed and the U.S. Navy moved to block maritime traffic to and from Iran through the Strait of Hormuz.
Updates from 11am BST start across the grounds Sign up for the Spin | Mail Tanya or comment BTL Just the most perfect spring morning in Manchester, birds, blossom, the works. One to store up and remember in November. My husband heard his first willow warbler of the year too. Derbyshire are hoping it stays that way. This was Zak Chappell last night: Continue reading...
Updates from 11am BST start across the grounds Sign up for the Spin | Mail Tanya or comment BTL Just the most perfect spring morning in Manchester, birds, blossom, the works. One to store up and remember in November. My husband heard his first willow warbler of the year too. Derbyshire are hoping it stays that way. This was Zak Chappell last night: Continue reading...
The US announced a blockade against ships calling at Iranian ports, ramping up pressure on the Middle East nation after marathon peace talks over the weekend ended without a deal. Action was due to start Monday at 10am New York time (10pm Hong Kong), according to US Central Command. Vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz to and from non-Iranian ports won’t be affected, it said. President Donald T...
The US announced a blockade against ships calling at Iranian ports, ramping up pressure on the Middle East nation after marathon peace talks over the weekend ended without a deal. Action was due to start Monday at 10am New York time (10pm Hong Kong), according to US Central Command. Vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz to and from non-Iranian ports won’t be affected, it said. President Donald Trump had earlier said that the blockade would cover all ships using the vital waterway. “Any Iranian...
This may very well be the year of the mega-initial public offering (IPO). Artificial intelligence (AI) large language model developers OpenAI and Anthropic are both exploring the idea of going public before the end of 2026. However, the kingpin of all expected IPOs is space infrastructure and AI conglomerate, SpaceX. SpaceX, whose CEO, Elon Musk, also runs trillion-dollar electric-vehicle (EV) mak...
This may very well be the year of the mega-initial public offering (IPO). Artificial intelligence (AI) large language model developers OpenAI and Anthropic are both exploring the idea of going public before the end of 2026. However, the kingpin of all expected IPOs is space infrastructure and AI conglomerate, SpaceX. SpaceX, whose CEO, Elon Musk, also runs trillion-dollar electric-vehicle (EV) maker Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) , confidentially filed to go public on April 1. Initial reports suggest it could fetch a valuation of up to $1.75 trillion and raise in the neighborhood of $75 billion. For context, Saudi Aramco currently holds the title of largest IPO, with $29.4 billion raised in December 2019. Image source: Getty Images. Continue reading
2Ban/iStock Editorial via Getty Images French‑based insurtech Neat and and Visa ( V ) entered a strategic partnership to upgrade insurance and assistance services embedded in payment cards across Europe. The partnership combines Neat’s insurance platform with Visa’s ( V ) current card protection services, allowing for new, AI-powered insurance features like clearer coverage, customized protections...
2Ban/iStock Editorial via Getty Images French‑based insurtech Neat and and Visa ( V ) entered a strategic partnership to upgrade insurance and assistance services embedded in payment cards across Europe. The partnership combines Neat’s insurance platform with Visa’s ( V ) current card protection services, allowing for new, AI-powered insurance features like clearer coverage, customized protections, and quicker, fully digital claims for cardholders. The program launches first in France as part of Visa’s ( V ) existing embedded‑insurance program, which already covers over 25M Visa cardholders. More on Visa Visa: A Rare Discount On A World Class Compounder Visa: From Defensive To Compounding Opportunity After Valuation Reset Visa Is In A Changing Environment With Opportunities And Risks Visa unveils agentic payment for businesses Loop Capital initiates coverage of seven fintech payment stocks
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is among the 10 High-Flying AI Stocks to Buy. On April 9, Evercore ISI reiterated its Outperform rating on Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) with a $285 price target, highlighting key insights from CEO Andy Jassy’s annual shareholder letter. The firm pointed to AWS’s AI revenue run rate exceeding $15B, alongside a rapidly growing custom […]
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is among the 10 High-Flying AI Stocks to Buy. On April 9, Evercore ISI reiterated its Outperform rating on Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) with a $285 price target, highlighting key insights from CEO Andy Jassy’s annual shareholder letter. The firm pointed to AWS’s AI revenue run rate exceeding $15B, alongside a rapidly growing custom […]
josephmok/iStock Unreleased via Getty Images Both JPMorgan ( JPM ) and Citigroup ( C ) report their Q1 ’26 financial results before the opening bell on Tuesday, April 14th, 2026, while Bank of America ( BAC ) follows up these reports with their own financial results before the market opens on Wednesday, April 15th, 2026. The one “macro” positive that has gotten very little attention in the financi...
josephmok/iStock Unreleased via Getty Images Both JPMorgan ( JPM ) and Citigroup ( C ) report their Q1 ’26 financial results before the opening bell on Tuesday, April 14th, 2026, while Bank of America ( BAC ) follows up these reports with their own financial results before the market opens on Wednesday, April 15th, 2026. The one “macro” positive that has gotten very little attention in the financial media around Q1 ’26 financial results is that significantly eased bank capital rules from the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) could see banks add further to stock buybacks and dividend increases, but banks could also - if they are prudent, and most are - add to their reserves as we move inevitably to the next US recession. One aspect that has helped in terms of bank reserve loss additions is that banks - since 2022 when the Fed started raising rates and nearly every white-shoe brokerage firm forecast a recession would likely hit by late 2022 - have been adding to reserves. Jamie Dimon’s “economic hurricane” comment (I suspect) scared the daylights out of bank managements, since Jamie is now the dean of US bank CEOs. However, as we all know now, that US recession never happened in late 2022, and 2023, and the US economy - like Old Man River - rolled right along. Most bank investors are likely watching the following areas when the banks report this week: 1.) Private credi t (issued by the banks and not the publicly traded private credit companies) and the exposure therein, not to mention any losses incurred. From everything I’ve read, “private credit” risk is not a systemic risk to the US financial system, and those are Jay Powell’s words from a speech March 30th, but it doesn’t mean individual banks couldn’t have gone onboard on software loans, etc. Banks were doing their own private credit lending the last 5 years for sure. 2.) Consumer credit: The banks like JPM and C haven’t seen sharp increases in credit card debt losses or delinquencies yet, which I have always conside...
hapabapa Wedbush said there is another turbulent week ahead for markets but noted to focus on "tech winners now on sale." The firm said its favorite names in cybersecurity are CrowdStrike ( CRWD ), Palo Alto Networks ( PANW ), Zscaler ( ZS ), Check Point Software ( CHKP ), and Rubrik ( RBRK ). "In this current Iran War situation it's clearly testing the fortitude of investors and markets with $100...
hapabapa Wedbush said there is another turbulent week ahead for markets but noted to focus on "tech winners now on sale." The firm said its favorite names in cybersecurity are CrowdStrike ( CRWD ), Palo Alto Networks ( PANW ), Zscaler ( ZS ), Check Point Software ( CHKP ), and Rubrik ( RBRK ). "In this current Iran War situation it's clearly testing the fortitude of investors and markets with $100+ oil, constant scary headlines including Trump's blockade Strait of Hormuz announcement, and worries about how long this conflict/war will continue in the Middle East as the markets digest news by the minute," said analysts led by Dan Ives. However, the analysts noted that the message is clear from customers and chief investment officers, or CIOs: the rapid pace of AI adoption is underway, and the focus is on finding enterprise- and department-level use cases to launch in 2026. On cybersecurity, the analysts said that critically, AI does not reduce the need for endpoint (and the vendors), identity, cloud, and Security Operations Center, or SOC, automation; it multiplies it. As more enterprises deploy large language model, or LLM, powered agents, the more run-time monitoring, identity governance, and zero-trust enforcement they require as cyber becomes the enforcement layer of AI, not a casualty of it, the analysts noted. "Our favorite names here remain CrowdStrike, Palo Alto, Zscaler, Checkpoint, and Rubrik," said Ives and his team. In addition, the analysts believe that the broader software sell-off is overblown, as many enterprises are integrating AI across their tech stacks as a top IT priority, and this dynamic is notbeing factored into current valuations. Ives and his team noted that investors are concerned that Anthropic ( ANTHRO ) and OpenAI ( OPENAI ) and other AI incumbents will change their mission to become the next step of enterprise software infrastructure. However, the analysts said, after speaking with many CIOs across the industry over the past few weeks, t...
A country whose economy is growing faster than those of its peers would typically see its currency strengthen. India has been expanding more quickly than most other Asian economies, including manufacturing powerhouse China, yet the rupee has fallen in value every year since 2018. The drop accelerated last year after President Donald Trump imposed steep tariffs on US imports from India, and the cur...
A country whose economy is growing faster than those of its peers would typically see its currency strengthen. India has been expanding more quickly than most other Asian economies, including manufacturing powerhouse China, yet the rupee has fallen in value every year since 2018. The drop accelerated last year after President Donald Trump imposed steep tariffs on US imports from India, and the currency reached an all-time low this year following the energy price shock from the Iran war. Only a small portion of those losses were clawed back following recent central bank efforts to shore up the rupee, and after the US and Iran agreed to a temporary ceasefire. Economists say the root causes of the rupee’s depreciation lie closer to home, in structural weaknesses that years of rapid economic growth have yet to fix. The decline is making it harder for India to finance its substantial energy imports, and leaves the government with less money to fund subsidies and other forms of support for hundreds of millions of citizens. What’s behind the rupee’s recent weakness? The rupee was the worst-performing currency in Asia in 2025 and held that position into 2026 until the Reserve Bank of India introduced measures to deter speculative trading on March 27. The weakness last year was driven by Trump’s punitive double-digit tariffs, as well as an exodus of foreign investors from India’s stock market due to concerns about the US duties, the pace of economic growth, high equity valuations and tepid corporate earnings. This year, the rupee has hit successive record lows, briefly breaching 95 rupees per US dollar. The ongoing weakness reflects fears that higher energy prices caused by the Iran war will increase inflation and weigh on economic growth (a combination known as stagflation) and widen India’s persistent current-account deficit (whereby the payments for its imports exceed receipts from its exports). Higher energy prices mean India must buy more foreign currency — normally dol...
Once again, hopes for an agreement to end the war in the Middle East have come to naught. Donald Trump has doubled down by threatening to blockade the Strait of Hormuz — a move which will likely further restrict supplies of crude and inflict deeper pain on the global economy — after the US and Iran failed to reach a deal in talks in Pakistan. Speaking to reporters on Sunday night, Trump said he di...
Once again, hopes for an agreement to end the war in the Middle East have come to naught. Donald Trump has doubled down by threatening to blockade the Strait of Hormuz — a move which will likely further restrict supplies of crude and inflict deeper pain on the global economy — after the US and Iran failed to reach a deal in talks in Pakistan. Speaking to reporters on Sunday night, Trump said he didn’t care if Iran returned to the negotiating table, arguing the US had already achieved its military objectives. “If they don’t come back, I’m fine,” he said. The risk of escalation is rising. The US military said it would impose a blockade of all maritime traffic entering and exiting Iranian ports at 10 a.m. on Monday Washington time, adding that it would allow other vessels to transit the strait if they’re not stopping in the Islamic Republic. Iran issued a threat to neighboring ports if its own facilities were targeted. “If the security of Iran’s ports in the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman is threatened, no port in the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman will be safe,” Iran’s armed forces said in a statement, according to state-run IRIB News. They added that US restrictions on the movement of vessels in international waters are “illegal and constitute an act of piracy.” Earlier on Sunday, Trump said the US was “LOCKED AND LOADED” and ready to “finish up the little that is left of Iran.” The US leader threatened to retaliate in the event of Iranian resistance to the blockade, posting on social media that “Any Iranian who fires at us, or at peaceful vessels, will be BLOWN TO HELL!” Trump has suggested that other countries would also be participating in the blockade, but has yet to name any specific nations that will be sending ships or other assets to the region to assist. While the US is capable of enforcing a blockade, it would entail substantial costs and risks , Bloomberg Economics’ analysts including Jennifer Welch wrote in a note. US warships would be closer to Irani...
undefined China’s economy is expected to have grown 4.8% year-on-year in the first quarter, according to a Caixin survey of economists, marking a modest pickup from the previous quarter. The poll of 11 institutions showed forecasts ranging from 4.5% to 5.2%, with the average estimate 0.3 percentage points above the fourth-quarter pace. The forecasts reflect support from exports and front-loaded fi...
undefined China’s economy is expected to have grown 4.8% year-on-year in the first quarter, according to a Caixin survey of economists, marking a modest pickup from the previous quarter. The poll of 11 institutions showed forecasts ranging from 4.5% to 5.2%, with the average estimate 0.3 percentage points above the fourth-quarter pace. The forecasts reflect support from exports and front-loaded fiscal policy, though domestic demand remains subdued. China’s Q1 GDP Seen Accelerating Analysts expect nominal GDP growth to outpace real growth, partly due to elevated energy prices , raising the possibility that the GDP deflator — a broad measure of price changes — could turn positive after 11 consecutive quarters in negative territory.
Any investor who has a time horizon of at least three months should use any weakness in stocks to buy, says a new research note from JPMorgan strategists.
Any investor who has a time horizon of at least three months should use any weakness in stocks to buy, says a new research note from JPMorgan strategists.