Wall Street slid on Thursday after Alphabet fell more than 4%, dragging major indexes lower and rattling assets from bitcoin to precious metals. l.euronews.com/BLhr

European countries have pledged to invest more than €1 trillion combined in the coming years to modernize roads, railways and power grids bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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Goldman warns U.S. stocks are vulnerable to more selling by these big investors trib.al/NlCNG3t

Rather than taking jobs away, automation in British factories is linked to higher employment. It is a reminder that new production technologies often expand output and change what people do at work, rather than simply replacing them. Centre for Economic Performance research blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview…

The stock market looks expensive — but this chart shows why AI bubble fears in tech may be overblown trib.al/mllYa5b

Gold is back above $5,000. The rally in precious metals is reckless and crazy, but so is global fiscal policy. At some point over the past 20 years, policy makers who believe in keeping public debt stable stopped existing. Makes sense to buy safe havens... robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/does-fridays…

President Trump’s trade wars are contributing to UK inflation as China raises prices on exports to Britain to recover the cost of US tariffs, Bank of England policymaker Catherine Mann said bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Taiwan has told Washington that its proposal to move 40% of the island’s semiconductor supply chain to the U.S. was “impossible,” Taipei’s top tariff trade negotiator said in an interview. 🔗Read more: cnb.cx/4rIeswV

In 1985, IBM was America’s most valuable company & employed nearly 400,000. Today, Nvidia is nearly 20 times as valuable and five times as profitable as IBM was yet it employs roughly a 10th as many people. wsj.com/economy/jobs/c… Greg Ip

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Tech drag and geopolitics drive market volatility Charles Stanley Wealth Managers charles-stanley.co.uk/insights/comme…

Long-term Treasury bonds rally as investors dump stocks in broad-based selloff trib.al/LHehKTh

Cryptocurrencies remained under pressure Friday in Asia after Standard Chartered warned of further Bitcoin weakness and the largest US crypto exchange swung to a loss in the fourth quarter bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Market turbulence over the past year has seen investors looking to diversify and shore up their portfolios with safe haven assets like gold.  ➡️ Typically, the U.S. dollar, the Japanese yen and the Swiss franc have also been viewed as stable assets that investors turn to in

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Nerves about which companies could be next to be replaced by AI spread through the markets this week, with logistics, real estate companies, and financial services all hit

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