Bloomberg Daybreak Europe is your essential morning viewing to stay ahead. Live from London, we set the agenda for your day, catching you up with overnight markets news from the US and Asia. And we'll tell you what matters for investors in Europe, giving you insight before trading begins. On today's show, US President Donald Trump says he is "very optimistic" about a deal with Iran, despite confus...
Bloomberg Daybreak Europe is your essential morning viewing to stay ahead. Live from London, we set the agenda for your day, catching you up with overnight markets news from the US and Asia. And we'll tell you what matters for investors in Europe, giving you insight before trading begins. On today's show, US President Donald Trump says he is "very optimistic" about a deal with Iran, despite confusion about what the agreement actually covers. But he later threatened Tehran over charging fees in the Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile, Israel will hold direct talks with Lebanon next week, but Benjamin Netanyahu said strikes on Hezbollah targets will continue. Bloomberg understands that Scott Bessent and Jerome Powell summoned Wall Street bank CEOs to warn them of potential risks posed by Anthropic’s new AI model and others. Today's guests: Peter Virovacz, ING, Senior Economist. (Source: Bloomberg)
The Big Short investor argued Anthropic is outpacing Palantir at a fraction of the time. The stock fell 7% before he pulled the post. British tech sector followers waking up on Friday are looking at a Palantir Technologies share price that closed down 7.3% on Thursday in New York, shedding...
The Big Short investor argued Anthropic is outpacing Palantir at a fraction of the time. The stock fell 7% before he pulled the post. British tech sector followers waking up on Friday are looking at a Palantir Technologies share price that closed down 7.3% on Thursday in New York, shedding...
The post This Company Aims to Disrupt the Trillion-Dollar Retirement Industry — By Fixing a Costly Blind Spot by Benzinga Contributors appeared first on Benzinga . Visit Benzinga to get more great content like this. For decades, retirement planning has been marketed as an investment game: pick the right funds, beat the market, and stay invested long enough. But a growing body of research suggests ...
The post This Company Aims to Disrupt the Trillion-Dollar Retirement Industry — By Fixing a Costly Blind Spot by Benzinga Contributors appeared first on Benzinga . Visit Benzinga to get more great content like this. For decades, retirement planning has been marketed as an investment game: pick the right funds, beat the market, and stay invested long enough. But a growing body of research suggests one of the biggest retirement risks for many Americans isn’t market performance at all — it’s taxes. Despite trillions of dollars under management across the retirement industry, most Americans approach retirement “tax-blind,” with little clarity around how much of their savings they’ll actually keep after required withdrawals, capital gains, and future tax brackets are factored in. Finance Advisors is building a consumer platform designed to address that problem. The company offers a free matching tool that connects Americans with vetted financial advisors who specialize in tax-aware retirement planning, a level of sophistication historically reserved for high-net-worth households. Rather than selling products or portfolios, Finance Advisors focuses on improving outcomes by helping consumers find fiduciary advisors whose planning centers on after-tax income, withdrawal sequencing, and long-term tax efficiency. A Platform Built From Inside the Industry Finance Advisors was founded by Jake Romine, a longtime wealth-management marketing executive who has worked closely with advisory firms since 2018, most recently serving as CRO of a registered investment advisory firm founded by a former PayPal executive. Earlier in his career, Romine was exposed to the incentive structures that dominate much of the retirement industry, including product-driven compensation models and sales-first priorities. That experience helped shape Finance Advisors’ core thesis: most Americans don’t need more financial products; they need better planning and better-aligned incentives. The platform was d...
As it does at the end of every quarter, the electric vehicle and robotaxi company Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) reported its EV deliveries before actually releasing its full quarterly results. Tesla once again reported disappointing deliveries of 358,023 for the first quarter of 2026, below the 370,000 that Wall Street analysts had expected. To make matters worse, there's another problem brewing. Image sou...
As it does at the end of every quarter, the electric vehicle and robotaxi company Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) reported its EV deliveries before actually releasing its full quarterly results. Tesla once again reported disappointing deliveries of 358,023 for the first quarter of 2026, below the 370,000 that Wall Street analysts had expected. To make matters worse, there's another problem brewing. Image source: Tesla. Continue reading
Like most technology-centric companies, Latin America's e-commerce powerhouse MercadoLibre (NASDAQ: MELI) is using artificial intelligence to improve its results. As CFO Martín de los Santos commented during the company's fourth-quarter earnings call , "We are seeing clear evidence that our investments in artificial intelligence are accelerating revenue." The numbers confirm his claim. On a consta...
Like most technology-centric companies, Latin America's e-commerce powerhouse MercadoLibre (NASDAQ: MELI) is using artificial intelligence to improve its results. As CFO Martín de los Santos commented during the company's fourth-quarter earnings call , "We are seeing clear evidence that our investments in artificial intelligence are accelerating revenue." The numbers confirm his claim. On a constant-currency basis, MercadoLibre's Q4 revenue growth accelerated to a year-over-year pace of 47%. Also like so many other companies investing in AI, however, this one's spending is uncomfortably steep. Although MercadoLibre didn't detail exactly how much it invested in artificial intelligence last year, these outlays are a big reason that this company's 2025 net income only improved about half as much as its sales did. That's the chief reason its stock is down 35% from last May's peak. Continue reading
Sometimes, a single number can stop investors cold in their tracks. Slap a forward price-to-earnings (P/E) multiple of 106 on any stock and Wall Street's conventional wisdom yells, "Run for the hills." But what if the stock market's conventional wisdom is losing its relevance, given how rapidly artificial intelligence (AI) is changing everything? In my view, Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ: PLTR) is...
Sometimes, a single number can stop investors cold in their tracks. Slap a forward price-to-earnings (P/E) multiple of 106 on any stock and Wall Street's conventional wisdom yells, "Run for the hills." But what if the stock market's conventional wisdom is losing its relevance, given how rapidly artificial intelligence (AI) is changing everything? In my view, Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ: PLTR) is not a software company trading at an unsustainable premium. Instead, it is something the market has never really witnessed before -- and the valuation tools investors are applying to the stock were never designed to price it. Image source: Getty Images. Continue reading
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, meets with a delegation of the Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) party led by its chairwoman Cheng Li-wun in Beijing, capital of China, April 10, 2026. Photo: Xinhua Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, met with a delegation led by Kuomintang chairwoman Cheng Li-wun in Beijing ...
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, meets with a delegation of the Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) party led by its chairwoman Cheng Li-wun in Beijing, capital of China, April 10, 2026. Photo: Xinhua Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, met with a delegation led by Kuomintang chairwoman Cheng Li-wun in Beijing on April 10, marking the first in-person dialogue between the heads of the two political parties in a decade. Welcoming the delegation, Xi noted that the renewed high-level talks hold significant weight for the trajectory of interparty and cross-strait relations. He emphasized that people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait belong to the same Chinese nation, sharing a common history, civilization, and an enduring belief that their territory cannot be divided.