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By the fourth quarter of 2026, Goldman Sachs believes the current geopolitical tension might have eased somewhat and they forecast $60 by year-end

Introduction: Nvidia fails to wow Wall Street with blockbuster quarterGood morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of business, the financial markets and the world economy.What’s a tech firm gotta do to get a share price bump these days?Nvidia may be asking that question after reporting strong earnings last night, alongside a solid growth forecast, only to receive a shrug from Wall Street.The chip-making firm certainly had another extremely strong quarter – it posted record quarterly revenue of $68.1bn for October-December 2025, up 20% compared with the third quarter of last year and a sizzling 73% more than a year…

BEIJING — U.S. chip giant Nvidia has yet to recoup its lost sales in China, despite Washington easing some restrictions, and the company is sounding the alarm about rising competition from Chinese rivals.”While small amounts of H200 [semiconductor] products for China-based customers were approved by the US government, we have yet to generate any revenue,” Nvidia’s CFO Colette M. Kress said on an earnings call Wednesday local time, according to a FactSet transcript. “We do not know whether any imports will be allowed into China,” she said.China once accounted for at least one-fifth of Nvidia’s data center revenue.Global AI disruptionThe semiconductor…

Bitcoin is flashing its most oversold signal on record amid its continued price struggles in this current macroeconomic environment and persistent exchange-traded fund (ETF) outflows.According to CryptoSlate data, BTC’s price dipped to around $62,700 over the last 24 hours, while its weekly relative strength index (RSI) printed roughly 25.7. BTC has risen to above $66,000 as of press time.Alex Thorn, Galaxy Digital’s head of research, pointed out that this weekly RSI is “lower than any time except the darkest of bears.”Bitcoin RSI (Source: Alex Thorn)Thorn also noted that the only lower readings since 2016 were in November and December 2018,…

Wednesday, February 25th, 2026Investors today gave tech and software a renewed vote of confidence, while all major indexes shrugged off a twinge of doubt late-morning and closed at or near session highs. The Dow closed up +307 points, +0.63%, the S&P 500 rose +56 points, +0.81%, Nasdaq was +288, +1.26% and the small-cap Russell 2000 finished the day up +11, +0.41%. NVIDIA Slam-Dunks on Earnings AgainOnce again, the world’s biggest company by market cap, NVIDIA NVDA, demonstrates how it got to this position: it forecast earnings growth at +70.8% in the quarter, and came in +82%. Earnings of $1.62 beat the…

Emirates NBD, a leading banking group in the Middle East, North Africa, and Türkiye (MENAT) region, has launched a new service designed to help customers verify their carbon footprint based on their daily transactions.The new feature, dubbed the ENBD X Carbon Calculator, will be available directly within the ENBD X Mobile Banking app. It allows nearly two million users to link their financial wellbeing with tangible climate action.How the Carbon Calculator worksThe newly introduced product automatically analyses a customer’s transactions and estimates the associated CO2 emissions.By providing a visual representation of this data, customers can measure, manage, and meaningfully reduce…

Applied Digital (NASDAQ:) and Vertiv Holdings (NYSE:) operate in distinct yet converging segments of the data center infrastructure market. Vertiv provides critical power systems, thermal management and prefabricated infrastructure solutions for hyperscale and AI-driven facilities. Applied Digital, while primarily a developer and operator of AI-optimized campuses, has expanded deeper into the power and advanced cooling stack through modular electrical design and liquid-cooled infrastructure tailored for high-density computing. Both companies now participate in the hyperscale and AI-factory buildout cycle. Per Mordor Intelligence, the global Data Center Infrastructure Management market is projected to grow from $4.29 billion in 2026 to $9.99 billion…

(RTTNews) – AstraZeneca PLC (AZN, AZN.L), a Swedish-British pharmaceutical and biotechnology company, on Thursday priced a three-tranche bond offering totalling $2 billion through its wholly owned subsidiary AstraZeneca Finance LLC. The closing is expected on March 2. The offering comprises $650 million of 4.000% notes due March 2, 2031, $600 million of 4.300% notes due March 2, 2033, and $750 million of 4.600% notes due March 2, 2036. The company said that the net proceeds will be used for general corporate purposes, including potential refinancing of existing indebtedness. On Wednesday, AstraZeneca closed trading, 0.70% lesser at GBp 15,218 on the…

Leon Black, then-CEO of Apollo Global Management, at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, May 1, 2018.Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesA version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox.A $484 million art loan secured by billionaire Leon Black and disclosed in the latest Epstein files highlights one of the fastest-growing and most lucrative corners of the art world.According to a March 2015 document released as part of the Epstein files, Black…

New research tries to define what makes money ‘good’ or ‘bad’, and thus shed light on the factors that may shape the dominance or failure of new forms of digital currency.The working paper, published this week by the US National Bureau of Economic Research, disputes the assertion made by economists such as Milton Friedman that money’s medium-of-exchange and store-of-value roles are “intrinsically complementary and largely indistinguishable”. Instead, authors Itay Goldstein, Ming Yang and Yao Only users who have a paid subscription or are part of a corporate subscription are able to print or copy content.To access these options, along with all other…