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Wall Street climbs to clinch its first winning week in a month August 26, 2023 Stocks rose on Friday to send Wall Street to its first winning week since July after the head of the Federal Reserve said it will “proceed carefully” as it decides what to do with interest rates. The S&P 500 climbed 29.40, or 0.7 per cent , to 4,405.71 after flipping between small gains and losses [...]
Wall Street wilts as yields rise ahead of speech by Federal Reserve chief Powell August 25, 2023 Wall Street has slumped despite a blowout profit report from Nvidia, following some mixed reports on the US economy. The S&P 500 dropped 1.3 per cent for its worst loss in three weeks. It nearly wiped out its gain for the week, which had been a bright spot in what has been a rough August. [...]
FTSE 100 close: London markets rally after ‘blockbuster’ Nvidia results as investors bet rates are nearing peak August 24, 2023 London markets stood out among global peers as investors bet that the Bank of England was nearing the end of their rate hiking cycle. The bluechip FTSE 100 index climbed 0.24 per cent to trade at 7,338.16 The midcap FTSE 250 index slipped 0.11 per cent to 18,206.37. Indexes in Paris and Frankfurt fell, having [...]
Wall Street cheers Nvidia results as AI chip designer lives up to expectations August 24, 2023 Hunger for Nvidia’s artificial intelligence (AI) chips has propelled its sales to $13.5bn (£10.6bn) in its second quarter, more than doubling from a year ago. The American tech behemoth’s data centre business drove most of the sales, soaring 170 per cent compared to the same period last year, up to $10.3bn (£8.1bn). Nvidia’s data centre business sells the company’s [...]
Tax-saving venture capital trusts buck start-up investment slump August 23, 2023 Venture Capital Trusts which allow savers to make tax-savvy early-stage investments have bucked a funding slowdown this year and boosted the amount of cash they are pushing into start-ups.
Arm announces Nasdaq float in largest US IPO in 2 years August 22, 2023 SoftBank-owned chip designer Arm has confirmed it will float on New York’s Nasdaq next month in what will be the largest US initial public offering (IPO) in almost two years. Arm, which licenses its chip designs to tech giants like Apple, Nvidia, and Qualcomm, has said the offering is being led by Barclays, Goldman Sachs, [...]
ARM muscles up for bumper IPO with $70bn valuation and 28 rostered banks August 22, 2023 SoftBank Group Corp’s Arm Holdings Ltd reported a 1% fall in annual revenue due to a slowdown in smartphone sales, after the chip designer disclosed the paperwork for an initial public offering (IPO) that is expected to be the largest of the year. Arm’s stock market launch is expected to bring back to life a lackluster IPO [...]
London SMEs committing over half of annual revenue to tech investment, data reveals August 22, 2023 London’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are ramping up their tech budgets, allocating over half of their annual revenue to technology investments, according to a report by Barclays. In the capital, SMEs are directing an average of 54 per cent of their annual revenue to technology investments, such as data analytics and artificial intelligence tools, [...]
Aviva’s UK unit testing AI for ‘quicker solutions’ August 21, 2023 The head of Aviva’s UK unit has revealed that the insurance giant is experimenting with artificial intelligence across its business. Adam Winslow, CEO of Aviva UK & Ireland General Insurance, told the Insurance Post that virtual assistants and chatbots were the “obvious next step” for offering customers “quicker solutions to whatever their query is”. “There [...]