Category: Finance

Technology stocks came under renewed pressure this week as investors grew increasingly uneasy about how the artificial intelligence buildout is being paid for, with money rotating out of high-flying growth names and into the relative safety of the bond market. The selling has been concentrated in the corner of the market that has driven returns…

The International Monetary Fund has warned that a sharp fall in the share prices of artificial intelligence companies could pose a significant risk to global financial stability, according to a report published by the Guardian. The warning places the IMF among a growing number of institutions questioning whether the extraordinary run-up in technology valuations over…

Global investors are shifting the way they assess Chinese companies venturing abroad, according to Goldman Sachs. Rather than rewarding headline-grabbing announcements of new factories, showrooms and distribution deals in foreign markets, fund managers are increasingly asking a harder question: does the overseas business actually make money? That message, outlined by the Wall Street bank in…

Banks vs Bots: Agentic AI Opens Up a New Fear for the Finance Industry For years, the financial sector’s relationship with artificial intelligence has been one of cautious enthusiasm. Banks have deployed machine learning to spot fraudulent card transactions, screen loan applications and automate the drudgery of compliance paperwork. Now a newer breed of software…

After a stretch of weeks dominated by macro headlines, Wall Street’s attention swings back to the companies themselves. Third-quarter earnings season kicks off this week, and investors will get their first detailed look at how corporate America navigated the summer and early fall. The banks go first, as usual Earnings season traditionally opens with the…

Wall Street has spent much of this year enjoying the kind of conditions bankers dream about: active markets, a reopened deal pipeline, and clients willing to trade, borrow and raise capital. The result was a first half that, by most measures, ranked among the strongest stretches in recent memory for the biggest U.S. banks. The…

CNBC has released its annual Financial Advisor 100 ranking, spotlighting the registered investment advisory firms it judges to be the best in the business for 2026. The list, published Thursday, is one of several rankings the network produces each year aimed at helping investors navigate a crowded and often confusing marketplace. With tens of thousands…

U.S. stock futures pointed lower early Thursday, with contracts tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 all in the red, as a renewed climb in crude oil prices revived worries that inflation may prove harder to tame than investors had hoped. The move in energy markets dominated the pre-market narrative.…

If you have ever clicked through to a page titled something like “Earnings Calendar for:” on Yahoo Finance or a similar financial portal, you have stumbled onto one of the most quietly useful tools in retail investing. It is not flashy. There is no commentary, no chart of a stock soaring or cratering. It is,…

A simple tool at the centre of market-moving weeks Few pages on a financial website get refreshed as often as the earnings calendar. It is, on the surface, one of the plainest things in finance: a list of companies, a list of dates, and an indication of whether a firm is due to report before…