Metrobank reports private wealth investors in the Philippines becoming more selective in 2026, focusing on disciplined, opportunity‑driven allocation. High‑net‑worth clients favor Asian and emerging‑market equities, especially AI‑linked semiconductor stocks, while keeping equities overweight versus fixed income. Fixed‑income exposure is added through active global credit funds to enhance resilience, and alternatives such as commodities and digital assets gain tactical interest. Appetite for private‑equity, real‑estate and hedge‑funds remains muted due to higher financing costs and liquidity concerns.
The Philippines and the United States have signed a critical minerals agreement that goes beyond raw‑material extraction, targeting downstream processing, power generation, logistics and chemical handling. The Department of Trade and Industry says the pact adopts a whole‑of‑government approach to...
Goldman Sachs has accelerated its India strategy, injecting roughly $500 million into its local franchise over the past three years. The push has lifted the firm to fourth place in equity offerings and fifth in M&A league tables, overtaking long‑time rivals...
XOMA Royalty Corporation’s 8.375% cumulative preferred (XOMAO) trades at an attractive 8.3% yield, positioning it as a high‑income vehicle. The company added 24 royalty‑related assets in 2025, expanding its cash‑flow base from biotech milestones and licensing fees. Management highlights the...
Bristow Group (VTOL) is positioned for medium‑term growth, capitalising on robust offshore energy demand in Brazil, Africa and the Caribbean. Recent debt refinancing and stronger free‑cash flow have shored up its balance sheet, enabling planned share buybacks and a 2026...
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at a fresh all‑time high, buoyed by strong earnings from industrial and financial stocks. At the same time, the latest retail sales data showed flat growth, indicating a pause in consumer spending. Despite the...
A high-stakes meeting indeed. If Trump yields to Netanyahu's demand to push for a comprehensive deal covering Iran's ballistic missiles programme and support for regional proxies, possible outcomes: -- Drawn-out negotiations under the looming shadow of military action -- Higher chances of a...

Teradata reported fourth‑quarter earnings of $0.74 per share, well above the $0.54 consensus, and revenue of $421 million, a 3% year‑over‑year increase. Recurring revenue now represents 87% of total sales, while public‑cloud annual recurring revenue jumped 15% to $701 million. The company...

⚠️US HIRING IS AT RECESSION LEVELS: US hiring rate sits at just 3.3%, in line with the 2020 Crisis and one of the lowest readings in 13 years. Hiring is even weaker than during the 2001 recession and at levels seen during...
Lumax Auto Technologies saw its share price surge over 11% this week, breaking the intermediate resistance at ₹1,560 and establishing a new support level. The stock is currently trading around ₹1,640, with analysts projecting a target of ₹1,880‑₹1,900 in the...

The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) set the USD/CNY midpoint at 6.9438 on Tuesday, notably higher than the Reuters estimate of 6.9109. The central bank maintains its +/-2% trading band around the reference rate, with the yuan closing the previous...

The Super Bowl LX at Levi’s Stadium generated a massive jock‑tax windfall for California, which levies a 13.3% top rate on nonresident earnings for roughly ten duty days. Seattle Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold faces a $202,102 tax bill, while Patriots...

In this episode, Peter Lewis discusses Japan’s post‑election economic challenge: reviving growth without reigniting inflation that has already driven staple prices, like rice, to double. He is joined by Richard Harris of Port Shelter Investment Management and Tony Nash of...
The Bank of Japan has started selling its massive ETF portfolio, roughly 95 trillion yen ($610 billion). The unwind will be deliberately gradual, with estimates suggesting the process could extend for decades, even up to a century. By reducing its holdings...
Singapore’s economy expanded 5% in 2025, surpassing the 4.8% forecast, largely thanks to a surge in AI‑driven manufacturing output. Global demand for artificial‑intelligence‑enabled products lifted factory orders and export volumes. While the growth outperformed expectations, policymakers warned that rapid AI...
China's state‑owned Zijin Mining Group announced an aggressive push to rank among the world’s top three gold and copper producers, primarily through overseas acquisitions. The strategy emphasizes gold and copper as core minerals for future growth while acknowledging heightened geopolitical...
Fujitsu announced it will begin manufacturing artificial‑intelligence servers at its Ishikawa plant in March 2026, expanding domestic production capacity. The new line emphasizes component‑origin tracking to guard against data‑leak risks, a feature aimed at sovereign AI deployments. This move aligns...

Total US consumer credit increased by $24.05 billion in December, far higher than forecasts of an $8.0 billion increase.
Altruist, a wealth‑management startup, rolled out AI‑driven tax‑planning tools, prompting a sharp sell‑off in legacy financial firms such as Charles Schwab, LPL Financial and Morgan Stanley. The reaction reflects investor anxiety that AI could erode traditional advisory revenue streams. Despite...

China’s central bank reaffirmed an “appropriately loose” monetary policy in its Q4 report, promising ample liquidity and the option to cut reserve‑requirement ratios or interest rates. The PBOC highlighted support for domestic demand, technology innovation and small‑medium enterprises while keeping...

The People’s Bank of China is set to announce the USD/CNY reference rate around 0115 GMT, with Reuters estimating a midpoint of 6.9109. China’s managed‑floating system keeps the yuan within a ±2 % band around this rate, blending market data with...
🔴AI is NOT the reason for job market LAYOFFS: Artificial Intelligence (AI) was cited in 7,624 of 108,435 layoffs announced in January, representing 7% of all cuts that month. Since 2023, AI has been referenced in just 3% of all job cuts...

Insider buying in Cebu Air CEB PM. Comes right after the Philippines introduced visa-free entry for Chinese nationals. Source: Smart Insider https://t.co/QYnTMGfGiz

In this Money Box Live episode, presenter Felicity Hannah and experts Clare Moffat, a pension and tax specialist, and Nina Sperring, a wealth‑protection solicitor, demystify inheritance tax, explaining who must pay it, how the rates are calculated and what thresholds...
Will stock markets find enough to like in US jobs data? It’s all about Fed interest rate cut expectations. #Jobs #NFP #StockMarket #Dollar #Fed #Macro #Trading https://t.co/UBCpyuHxhZ
Look forward to discussing this AI driven sell-off and the opportunities in tech on @BloombergTV at 9:40 am with @mattmiller1973 and @daniburgz 🔥🍿📺🐂🏆🎯

Westpac projects the Reserve Bank of New Zealand will keep the Official Cash Rate at 2.25% in its February 18 meeting, but expects the first rate hike to arrive in December 2026, slightly earlier than previously forecast. The bank notes...
"The [Japan] Financial Service Agency is currently conducting a review of the Corporate Governance Code with a desire to see improved capital efficiency through companies both reinvesting excess cash into their core business and increasing shareholder returns" - AVI

Macro Themes Deck (148 slides) @HedgeyeTV 11AM tomorrow Sneak Peak: this slide shows our Long Credit, Short Software Theme that MANY missed https://t.co/sBbXGGtVAr

The episode examines how Chinese traders, long recognized for aggressive speculation, sparked a dramatic swing in gold prices—from a surge to $5,600 in late January to a plunge to $4,423 within days. The host recounts a December report predicting this...
Macro: growth softens, yields rise. Key: sticky CPI, Fed tightening, tight labor. Risks: stagflation, policy error. Trade: short US Treasury duration as real yields climb. — Viktor Kopylov, PhD, CFA. More insights: t.me/si14Kopylov

MARKET RECAP 📈 The Dow Jones closed at another record high, now up 4.3% so far in 2026. All eyes on January CPI coming this Friday 👀 What the heck is going on?!? Let’s talk about it 🗣️
Sharp announced that its plan to sell the Kameyama No. 2 LCD panel plant in Mie Prefecture to parent company Foxconn has collapsed, prompting a shutdown slated for August. The company will cut 1,170 jobs through early‑retirement packages and record a...

Comment “POD” to watch the full episode where me and @boostlyuk talk about why 2026 will be the most important year in short-term rental history.
Honda Motor Co announced a 42% plunge in profit for the nine months through December, falling to 465.4 billion yen from 805.2 billion yen a year earlier. Sales dipped 2.2% to 15.98 trillion yen, yet the company kept its full‑year profit forecast of...
Financial stocks are "overearning" and subject to disruption. Altruist's tool is the tip of the iceberg. Today's share price declines are justified, imho - as pricing of industry product offerings will become more commoditized. This was inevitable. Trading at historic premiums...

China will publish its January 2026 CPI and PPI data today, offering the first post‑holiday inflation signals of the year. Analysts expect headline consumer inflation to edge up to roughly 0.6‑1.2% year‑on‑year, buoyed by seasonal food and service price spikes...
The New York Federal Reserve’s latest household‑debt report shows U.S. credit‑card balances climbing to a record $1.3 trillion in the fourth quarter, while the number of open accounts also hit an all‑time high. The surge reflects persistent consumer spending despite elevated...

SiriusXM’s Q4 earnings showed flat revenue year‑over‑year but a notable subscriber rebound, with 110,000 new self‑pay users offsetting a full‑year loss of 301,000. Monthly churn among self‑pay customers improved, falling to 15% from 16% YoY, leaving the company with a...
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President Donald Trump urged his Fed chair pick, Kevin Warsh, to deliver 15% annual GDP growth, a target rarely achieved outside wartime. The president’s demand follows criticism of current chair Jerome Powell and calls for aggressive rate cuts. Economists note...
Dallas Fed President Lorie Logan sounded more confident about the labor market outlook compared to Sept and Nov. She is also slightly more optimistic about inflation, pointing to recent downtrends in the "trimmed mean" PCE reading. But her bottom line is...

OIL MARKET: Washington issues a new general license to allow oilfield-service companies to work in Venezuela — it’s a crucial step to boost oil output in the Latin American country. https://t.co/ozdDE2MiMZ

The episode reviews the afternoon market dynamics for corn, soybeans, wheat, and livestock futures, noting a shift from steady to lower overnight prices before a positive day‑trade bounce driven by soy meal and oil strength and weather concerns in South...
Markets turned more defensive Tuesday as early strength faded... In today’s CHART THIS: • $SPX stuck below 7000 • Bonds rally on weaker retail sales • $GOOGL below the 50-day • $AVGO trapped between key MAs • Earnings: $KO $MAR $GILD $HOOD CHART THIS -> https://t.co/pHGfUwqPar

The ECI data out this morning is consistent with the thesis that underlying inflation is around 2.5%. And labor market looseness suggests that is more likely to go down than up. Wages ex volatile incentive pay have been steadily growing at...
#NFP tomorrow. After yesterday's verbal managing of expectations from Hassett and Miran. Will NFP hit 23K ? 15K ?
$UBER one of the show's favorite longs hits a multi month low and is now close to -30% below its recent high. Crickets. @dougkass @KeithMcCullough
The jobs report is due out tomorrow. Along with it, are the annual benchmark revisions. In other words, we may soon learn that the labor market is in worse shape than we thought. https://t.co/b44jhyLPVL

🇨🇦🛢️🇺🇸 US Canadian crude imports by importing region and crude grade quality Total US plateauing/rolling over Midwest still key Canadian market, but entirely saturated USGC was the pressure valve, but fell back when TMX opened (first went to West Coast, now increasingly China)...
RPK, last time I asked you about $RIG signaling buy more - what's the bull case on $HAL on sale? @RPKent