By Naomi Rovnick LONDON(Reuters) – Experienced tech investors are hunting for undervalued opportunities in an over-valued space. At stake is how best to invest in the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI), which took a leap forward in November when Microsoft-backed OpenAI released its ChatGPT bot, without buying into a bubble. Shares in Nvidia, which…
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss, Saeed Azhar and Davide Barbuscia NEW YORK (Reuters) – Anxiety is increasing in parts of Wall Street that rely on Treasury securities to function, with some traders starting to avoid U.S. government debt that comes due in June and others preparing to deal with securities at risk of default. U.S. President Joe…
By Takahiko Wada and Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -Core consumer inflation in Japan’s capital slowed in May, but a key index stripping away the effect of fuel hit a four-decade high, underscoring broadening price pressure that may keep alive expectations of a withdrawal of ultra-loose monetary policy. The data for Tokyo, which is seen as…
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Vidya Ranganathan The week draws to a close with pretty much the same buzz around artificial intelligence and U.S. debt diplomacy that it kicked off with. Stock markets were getting a breather after the excitement over the blowout forecast from chipmaker Nvidia Corp…
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Vidya Ranganathan The week draws to a close with pretty much the same buzz around artificial intelligence and U.S. debt diplomacy that it kicked off with. Stock markets were getting a breather after the excitement over the blowout forecast from chipmaker Nvidia Corp…
ANKARA (Reuters) – The Turkish central bank’s net forex reserves dropped into negative territory for the first time since 2002, standing at $-151.3 million on May 19, official data showed on Thursday, as it sought to counter forex demand ahead of Sunday’s runoff vote. President Tayyip Erdogan led rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu comfortably in the presidential…
By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan (BOJ) will likely maintain its yield curve control (YCC) policy until at least next year, three quarters of economists polled by Reuters said, as expectations for a near-term policy shift by new governor Kazuo Ueda subside. At his first policy meeting in April, Ueda kept…
By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) – Group of Seven (G7) nation officials will meet next week to consider problems posed by generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT, Japan said on Friday. Leaders of the G7, which includes the United States, European Union and Japan, last week agreed to create an intergovernmental forum called the…
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese search engine giant Baidu’s CEO Robin Li said on Friday that the company will “very soon” officially launch Ernie 3.5, a generative AI large-language model that will power Baidu’s ChatGPT-like app Ernie Bot and upgrade its search engine. Li made the announcement at the Zhongguancun Forum, one of China’s most well-known…
By Lucinda Elliott and Eliana Raszewski BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner slammed the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday, saying that the program agreed to with the multinational lender is holding back the country’s economy. Fernandez de Kirchner, speaking at an event commemorating Revolution Day in Buenos Aires’ historic…
