Lending practices at Brazil’s Nubank reportedly have Wall Street analysts uneasy. As Bloomberg News reported Thursday (Sept. 5), the lender — Latin America’s largest — is enjoying rapid growth, with around 60% of Brazilian adults using its app and its stock up 109% over the past year. However, the...
Character.AI and Google. Adept AI and Amazon. Microsoft and Inflection. What do these companies have in common? As The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Tuesday (Aug. 6), they’re all part of a new trend in the artificial intelligence (AI) field: struggling startups being rescued by Big Tech companies in a new type of deal that...
Wall Street investors are reportedly uneasy about Meta’s multi-billion-dollar artificial intelligence (AI) plans. The company’s stock fell 15% in early trading Thursday (April 25), Bloomberg News reported, despite CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s efforts to reassure investors as the tech giant released its quarterly earnings. “For all Meta’s bold AI plans,...
Goldman Sachs posted earnings on Monday (April 15) that illuminated a continued focus on Wall Street activities, while the firm continues to exit consumer-related banking activities. During the conference call with analysts, CEO David Solomon said that capital markets related activity has been robust as...
February 29, 2024
The headlines Thursday (Feb. 29) trumpet the fact that inflation rose in January at the rate most people expected — by 3% month on month. The Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) price index is parsed by Wall Street and by the Federal Reserve in mulling when, and by how much, interest rates might be cut in […]
September 18, 2023
Just a few weeks from now, federal student loan payments resume, ending a moratorium that had been in place since the onset of the pandemic in March of 2020. And...
March 31, 2023
Whether Amazon buys AMC — or not — may be beside the point. The mere fact that the eCommerce giant has been rumored to be mulling buying multiplex real estate...
June 16, 2022
Perhaps the best thing that could be said about this terrible, no good, lousy week is that … it could’ve been worse. The 13.5% slide in the FinTech IPO Tracker...
September 05, 2024
Lending practices at Brazil’s Nubank reportedly have Wall Street analysts uneasy. As Bloomberg News reported Thursday (Sept. 5), the lender — Latin America’s largest — is enjoying rapid growth, with around 60% of Brazilian adults using its app and its stock up 109% over the past year. However, the report adds, there is a growing number of skeptics who […]
August 06, 2024
Character.AI and Google. Adept AI and Amazon. Microsoft and Inflection. What do these companies have in common? As The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Tuesday (Aug. 6), they’re all part of a new trend in the artificial intelligence (AI) field:...
April 25, 2024
Wall Street investors are reportedly uneasy about Meta’s multi-billion-dollar artificial intelligence (AI) plans. The company’s stock fell 15% in early trading Thursday (April 25), Bloomberg News reported, despite CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s efforts...
April 10, 2024
Wall Street banks are reporting gaining back some of the share of financing deals they had lost to alternative-asset fund managers, insurers and other private credit. The broadly syndicated loan market...
