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Analysis-US tech stock tumble highlights risk of market reliance on megacaps
  • January 27, 2025

Analysis-US tech stock tumble highlights risk of market reliance on megacaps

Turbulence in some of the biggest tech names is reminding investors of one of the major risks to the U.S. stock market's record-setting rally: Reliance on a handful of mammoth companies to power those gains. Investors are scrambling to understand the fallout for the artificial intelligence (AI) investment theme that has been a critical driver for stocks over the past two years after the emergence of a low-cost Chinese AI model rattled markets. Optimism over AI has helped propel shares of chipmaker Nvidia and others of the "Magnificent Seven" megacaps, which combined contributed more than half of the S&P 500's 25% total return in 2024.

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Currency market whiplashed on tariff, DeepSeek concerns
  • January 27, 2025

Currency market whiplashed on tariff, DeepSeek concerns

TOKYO (Reuters) -The dollar firmed against the yen and euro on Tuesday on new U.S. tariff threats, giving traders little time to catch their breath after Monday's big risk-off moves on concerns that U.S. dominance in artificial intelligence technology may be wavering. Any market relief that President Donald Trump stopped short of hiking tariffs on U.S. trading partners immediately after taking office last week has quickly faded. Trump said he planned to impose tariffs on imported computer chips, pharmaceuticals and steel in an effort to get the producers to make them in the United States.

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Smithfield Foods prices IPO below range in US market comeback
  • January 27, 2025

Smithfield Foods prices IPO below range in US market comeback

The IPO valued the pork producer at $7.95 billion, ahead of a market debut that will see the company return to a U.S. exchange after more than a decade. The offering was priced at $20 per share, Smithfield said, below the $23-$27 per share range that would have raised as much as $939.6 million. Smithfield raised $260.9 million in the offering, while the rest was raised by the selling stockholder, a unit of its parent company WH Group.

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LNG WRAP: US Gas Producers Likely to Gain Asian Market Share
  • January 27, 2025

LNG WRAP: US Gas Producers Likely to Gain Asian Market Share

(Bloomberg) -- US gas producers could gain Asian market share at the expense of Australian exporters in the long run, as countries running a trade surplus with the US, like Japan and South Korea, are compelled to buy more American LNG to avoid Trump’s tariffs, according to Bloomberg Intelligence.Most Read from BloombergTexas HOA Charged With Discrimination for Banning Section 8 RentersBudapest Mayor Aims to Block Orban’s Plans to Build ‘Mini Dubai’What Happened to Hanging Out on the Street?Vienn

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