The Super Bowl is among the world's most coveted televised events for advertisers given its huge guaranteed audience, with a premium placed on creativity as Super Bowl commercials can generate outsized buzz. The Super Bowl ad would be OpenAI's first foray into commercial advertising, the newspaper said. Rivals such as Google ran ads promoting its AI prowess during last year's Super Bowl.
Alphabet's big spending plans surprised Wall Street. The news should soothe investors worried about last week's DeepSeek shakeup disrupting the AI narrative.
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Russian consumers purchased 75.6 metric tons of the precious metal, representing a 6% jump from 2023 and a 62% increase from 2021.
Traders across the globe project that tariffs and inflation will have the biggest impact on global markets in 2025 as they brace for volatility, an annual survey of institutional trading clients by JPMorgan Chase showed on Wednesday. The bank said 51% of its 4,233 respondents named inflation and tariffs together as the top potential developments likely to dominate markets this year. Last year, inflation was also a top concern, but only for 27% of the interviewees.
Crypto leaders see Bitcoin-backed bonds, stablecoin expansion, and tokenized financial instruments as the next major trends.
Semiconductors are the core infrastructure powering the Information Age. But they’re also susceptible to economic fluctuations as chip demand will ebb and flow with capital spending. Unfortunately, it’s unclear if we’re primed for another upswing as the industry’s 5.4% return has lagged the S&P 500 by 10.5 percentage points.
From commerce to culture, software is digitizing every aspect of our lives. This secular theme has materialized in superior earnings growth and stock price performance for most SaaS companies, and over the last six months, the industry’s 42.4% return has topped the S&P 500 by 26.5 percentage points.
The Bank of England looks set to cut interest rates on Thursday for only the third time since just after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, as it juggles the need to help the sluggish economy with still-strong inflation pressures. Hit by worries about finance minister Rachel Reeves' tax increases for employers, the risk of a global trade war led by U.S. President Donald Trump and rising costs, the British economy has barely grown since mid-2024. But price pressures remain hot, limiting what Governor Andrew Bailey and his colleagues can say on Thursday about their plans for 2025.
Whether you see them or not, industrials businesses play a crucial part in our daily activities. Still, their generally high capital requirements expose them to the ups and downs of economic cycles, and the industry’s six-month return of 13% has fallen short of the S&P 500’s 16.8% rise.
