Will the Fed Bail Out Silicon Valley Bank and Crypto?

You might have seen the news about the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, its rescue and the fire sale of the bank’s UK operations to HSBC. But what is this all about?

How the Credit Suisse Bankruptcy Makes 2024 Look Like 2008

EY delays start dates for consulting recruits for third year in a row

HSBC fired investment bankers on bonus day and gave them no bonuses

HSBC fired investment bankers on the day they were due to learn their bonus figures and gave no bonuses to many it let go, in a sign of how the bank is taking a more ruthless approach to costs under new chief executive Georges Elhedery.

US stocks at most expensive relative to bonds since dotcom era

Barclays becomes first UK bank to scrap EU bonus cap

Elliott says Nvidia is in a ‘bubble’ and AI is ‘overhyped’

FT story: Hedge fund tells clients many supposed applications of the technology are ‘never going to actually work’

Investment banking set to extend worst run in over a decade

Record $600bn pours into global bond funds in 2024

Global stock market rout: As it happened

FT story: Prices of stocks and other risky assets plunged on Monday as a sell-off that began last week accelerated, after Friday’s weak US jobs report stoked fears of a recession in the world’s biggest economy. US central bank needs ‘supersized’ 50bps rate cut in Sept or risk recession.

Office politics is not optional: learn to play the game or you’ll be its victim

The Largest M&A Deal of All Time

M&A deals top $1tn in third quarter

Global dealmaking is up by a third this year, setting 2025 up to be the best 12-month stretch since 2021

OpenAI's computing deals top $1tn

Global dealmaking hits $4.5tn in second-best year on record

Gold price hits record high

Price has rocketed 50% this year, its best performance since 1979, as institutional investors pile in

AI forecast to put 200,000 European banking jobs at risk by 2030

Citadel Joins Trading Rush Into Metals as Prices Soar to Records

Big Four post more job ads for AI specialists than auditors

The Big Four accounting firms now post more job adverts for AI specialists than for auditors, a structural shift that puts the UK’s assurance industry, its regulator, and the medium-term value chain of professional services under quiet but significant strategic pressure.

Is there an AI bubble and will it pop next year?

Inside one of the wildest days the oil market has ever seen

OpenAI secures up to $110bn in record funding deal

$730bn start-up restocks its war chest for battle with Anthropic and Google

Even MBAs From Top Business Schools Are Struggling to Get Hired

Glencore and Rio Tinto resume talks on $260bn mining megadeal

Global M&A megadeals surge to a record in first quarter

Global mergers and acquisitions reached $1.2tn in the first quarter, driven by a surge in megadeals despite geopolitical tensions and unease in the technology sector.

Hedge funds pile into commodities in search of fresh source of returns

Paramount gatecrashes Warner Bros-Netflix deal with $108bn hostile bid

ASML Becomes Europe's Most Valuable Company

ASML Holding NV, a Dutch semiconductor equipment maker, reported record fourth-quarter bookings of €13.2 billion ($15.8 billion), surpassing analyst estimates of €6.85 billion.