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[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images The companies known as the Magnificent Seven make up over 20% of the global stock market. And a lot of this is based on their perceived advantage when it comes to artificial intelligence (AI).  The big US tech firms hold all the aces when it comes to cash and computing power. But Deepseek – a Chinese AI lab – seems to be showing this isn’t the advantage investors once thought it was. What is DeepSeek? DeepSeek doesn’t have access to the most advanced chips from Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA). Despite this, it has built a reasoning model…

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[ad_1] GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Gunfire rang out early on Monday across parts of Goma, the largest city in eastern Congo, hours after Rwanda-backed rebels said they had seized the city despite the United Nations Security Council’s calling for an end to the offensive. The recent advance by the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel alliance has forced thousands in Congo’s mineral-rich east from their homes and triggered fears that a decades-old simmering conflict risks reigniting a broader regional war. “There is confusion in the city; here near the airport, we see soldiers. I have not seen the M23 yet,”…

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[ad_1] Equities can compound in value in a way that investments in bonds, real estate, and other asset classes cannot: Companies can distribute anywhere from 0% to 100% of their profits to investors as dividends or share buybacks, while the remaining 100% to 0% can be reinvested in the business.  S&P 500 firms tend to retain about half their earnings and distribute the other half through dividends and buybacks. This reinvestment of earnings feature is unique to equity investing. By comparison, bond owners receive interest payments, but no portion of those interest payments is automatically reinvested back into that same bond…

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[ad_1] The US dollar (DX=F, DX-Y.NYB) further retreated from near two-year highs on Friday, falling to a one-month low after President Trump said he would “rather not” impose tariffs on China. The US Dollar Index, which measures the dollar’s value relative to a basket of six foreign currencies — the euro, Japanese yen, British pound, Canadian dollar, Swedish krona, and Swiss franc — is tracking for its worst week in over a year. Recent pressure in the US dollar has largely been driven by two main catalysts: Trump’s election and the subsequent Republican sweep, along with the recalibration of future…

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[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) stock’s up 145% over 12 months. That means £5,000 invested one year ago would now be worth £12,250, plus a little bit extra to account for the depreciation of the pound and a very small dividend yield. It goes without saying this is a very strong investment in everyone’s book. It’s simply central to AI Nvidia’s shares have skyrocketed, driven by its pivotal role in the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution. The company’s consistently outperformed expectations with multiple earnings beats highlighting its dominance in the graphics processing unit (GPU) market (GPUs, originally built for…

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[ad_1] By Libby George LONDON (Reuters) – The new era of unpredictability, marked by tariff threats and rising global tensions, is prompting emerging market investors to look for shelter in frontier markets that are relatively safe from U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade policy shifts. Trump’s return to the White House put Mexico’s peso on a roller coaster, further drained enthusiasm for foreign investing in China and cooled hopes of a golden era for emerging markets. So-called frontier markets are the riskiest in EM and often smaller developing economies in Africa, Eastern Europe, Asia and even Latin America. They aren’t exactly…

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