Global Market Pulse

Hailo's decision to cut half its workforce amid a failed SPAC merger underscores the funding and competitive pressures hitting AI chip startups, even...

Oracle's cloud and AI positioning could trigger a Broadcom-like breakout if this earnings report confirms momentum, making it a key catalyst for traders to watch.

Hot May jobs data and Middle East tensions triggered synchronized equity weakness across regions.

• US markets: Nasdaq plunged 4.68% for the week...

• TSMC holds 41.5% of Taiwan's TAIEX while Samsung and Hynix make up 55% of Korea's KOSPI
• MSCI Asia Pacific ex-Japan rose 27% YTD but fell 4% when...

AI startups continue securing major capital at elevated valuations, signaling robust investor demand for both infrastructure and applications.
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Coatue's Laffont forecasts trillion-dollar IPOs from OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX, claiming they will eclipse the last decade of VC exits.

Forbes AI...

Six months after December's contested rate cut, surging jobs and reaccelerating core PCE inflation to 4.1% have forced a rapid repricing. Goldman...

Banco BPM is formally seeking merger talks with Monte dei Paschi to create Italy's second-largest bank, projecting a €50 billion combined value and...

US CPI report and ECB rate decision headline a critical macro week that could lock in higher-for-longer Fed policy if inflation persists. Resilient labor data already points to a strong USD bias heading into the print.

TP ICAP's new RealQ platform combines Neptune dealer data with Liquidnet workflows to improve liquidity discovery and reduce information leakage in...

BBH forecasts the ECB's 25bps hike to 2.25% will curb inflation but act as a growth headwind, with downgraded Eurozone GDP projections likely driving...

• Binance Research projects crypto platforms could direct $2 trillion in new capital and 300 million investors into global equities by 2031, with a...

• Internal Fed debates over inflation metrics and forward guidance risk muddled communications
• Mortgage rates stuck at 6.48% track Treasury yields...

The AI boom features billions spent on hypothetical returns, illustrated across six charts. Analyses from Goldman, McKinsey, and METR highlight absent productivity gains, underscoring return uncertainty for investors.

U.S. federal debt sits near 100% of GDP with a projected $1.89T deficit in FY2026.

Key scenarios and market implications:

• Baseline: Debt-to-GDP...

Equity markets price a precise chain of optimistic assumptions, each vulnerable to the layer above.

• Geopolitical resolution is the master bet: a...

Anthropic filed confidential IPO paperwork on June 1, just weeks after its record $65B funding round that helped drive AI's $72B share of May venture...

Global AI investment is redirecting capital away from emerging markets, forcing African founders to rely more on homegrown sources.

• Local investors...

SpaceX's June IPO floats just $75 billion of its $1.75 trillion valuation, limiting early index influence.

• Initial weights stay tiny: 0.12% in the...

Early-stage VCs can use SAFE Adjusted TVPI to clearly communicate SAFE note markups to their LPs.