Just as enthusiasm over artificial intelligence and China’s stimulus fades, a familiar weakness has come back to haunt equity investors in emerging markets: sinking corporate profits. With 96% of companies in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index done with their quarterly results, the earnings season is almost over. And the picture isn’t pretty — Almost half … Read more
The Nasdaq closed at a record high on Monday while the S&P 500 gained slightly as technology stocks advanced ahead of Nvidia‘s highly anticipated earnings and investors gauged the timing of an interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve. The S&P 500 technology index led gains among the 11 major S&P sectors, rising 1.32%, helped … Read more
The world’s largest PE fund Blackstone is weighing its exit from Mphasis, the technology company it acquired from Hewlett Packard Enterprise in 2016, thereby paving the way for its biggest payday in India, according to multiple people aware. Blackstone has initiated discussions with at least three global investment banks JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley and Citi … Read more
I think equities will stabilise and will recover, but I am suspicious about the tech sector in the short term because it is just so expensive, says Geoff Dennis, EM Commentator. A lot of experts believe that the technology stocks were highly overvalued due to which we saw a massive sell off on Friday. How … Read more