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12 May 2025

Capital light businesses outperform over time

Source: Invest In Assets 📈 @InvestInAssets, Goldman

12 May 2025

OPENAI IN TALKS WITH $MSFT TO SECURE FUNDING & PAVE PATH TO IPO 😳

OpenAI and Microsoft are rewriting the terms of their multibillion-dollar partnership in a high-stakes negotiation designed to allow the ChatGPT maker to launch a future IPO, while protecting the software giant’s access to cutting-edge artificial intelligence models. Microsoft, OpenAI’s biggest backer, is a key holdout to the $260bn start-up’s plans to undergo a corporate restructuring that moves the group further away from its roots as a non-profit with a mission to develop AI to “benefit humanity”. A critical issue in the deliberations is how much equity in the restructured group Microsoft will receive in exchange for the more than $13bn it has invested in OpenAI to date. Source: Shay Boloor @StockSavvyShay, FT

12 May 2025

How do US universities make money?

Source: Markets & Mayhem @Mayhem4Markets, Voronoi

12 May 2025

ChatGPT still leads, Gemini rises

40% of U.S. consumers have used a Gen AI tool in the past 30 days. Most used: 1. ChatGPT - 46% 2. Google Gemini - 37% 3. Microsoft Copilot - 25% Which AI tool do you use most? Source: The Future investors

12 May 2025

‼️The S&P 500 is trading at a MASSIVE technical level:

The S&P 500 has recovered some losses and broken above its 50-day moving average for the first time since February. However, it is still trading below its key 200-day moving average, a level smart money is watching. Will progress on US-China tariffs help the market break key resistance levels? Source: Bloomberg, Global Markets Investor

12 May 2025

🔴 BREAKING: US and China agreed to LOWER tariffs on each other for 90 days until further agreement is reached.

▶️ US cuts tariffs on Chinese goods to 30% from 145% (a base 10% plus 20% fentanyl duty) from May 14th. ▶️ China cuts tariffs on American goods to 10% from 125%. ▶️ Reductions DO NOT include sectoral duties imposed on all US trading partners, and the tariffs applied on China during the first Trump administration remain in place. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that neither side wants to decouple. As a reminder, in 2018, both sides also agreed to pause, but the US backed away from that, which led to more than 18 months of further tariffs and talks. It is a short-term relief at least. But just one headline may reverse everything again. Stay tuned. Source: Global Markets Investor

12 May 2025

BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager with $11.6 Trillion in assets under management, has 1,131 funds.

BlackRock's BITCOIN ETF, $IBIT, is #9 of all funds after 16 months 👇 Source: HODL15Capital 🇺🇸 @HODL15Capital

12 May 2025

Britons are being urged to stay home today between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. because the temperature is set to reach... 24 to 26 degrees.

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