February 2026
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AI FEARS.
India’s technology stock suffered their worst weekly performance since April 2025, extending a selloff that erased about $50b from the sector’s value so far this month.
The country’s Nifty IT index dived 8.2% on 9 February and dropped by 5.2% before recovering 1.44%.
Gold’s price will average $4,746.50 over this year, according to a January Reuters survey of 30 analysts. It was the highest annual average forecast the poll had recorded since it began in 2012 and more than 10 percent higher than the same survey recorded in October.
A year ago, another poll found commodities experts seeing gold at $2,700 in 2026.
Bitcoin, the world’s most popular cryptocurrency, came out limping after last week’s tech selloff, falling below $67,000, as industry insiders acknowledge that “sentiment has deteriorated sharply.”
“The crypto market still feels tired as we see little appetite from anyone to step in convincingly at these levels,” Jasper De Maere, a strategist from Wintermute, told the Financial Times.
Paris-based Amundi, with €2.38 trillion in assets under management, is shrinking its exposure to the U.S. dollar and telling clients to steer clear of investments denominated in the currency.
Instead, Amundi sees greater opportunities for gain in Europe and emerging nations.
The dollar’s slide to its lowest in more than three years has revived “fears about the U.S.'s pre-eminent position in global markets, spurred conflicting statements from the White House, & shifted the math behind everything from int'l travel to U.S. corporate profits - WSJ.
Bonds, currencies & stocks of emerging nations are leading the investment pack this year as the dollar sinks to a four-year low & investors diversify beyond dollar-denominated venues.
South Korea rocketed up more than 20% benefiting from AI investors broadening their chip holdings.
Because of the global economy’s over-reliance on a handful of drivers, particularly spending by U.S. AI-related companies & the associated stock market boom, risks to the global financial system are “tilted to the downside”, the IMF said in an update to its World Economic Outlook.
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Blue Owl a private lender dumps $1.4 billion in assets, rattling investors.
The private credit industry, a magnet for wealthy investors not long ago, has been slammed by a loss of confidence after two companies deep in private debt went spectacularly bankrupt last year.
Chicago-based asset manager Nuveen will buy Schroder’s, the iconic, 200-year-old London financial services firm, for $13.5 billion.
The sale will “end the independence of one of London’s last remaining major financial dynasties,” The Wall Street Journal said.
On 9 February, insurance company stock prices fell after OpenAI debuted an artificial intelligence (AI) app that could provide homeowners insurance quotes.
The next day, news of an AI capable of advising on tax strategies sank shares of asset managers and brokerage firms.
Last week, a group of investors with connections to the government sold off a significant volume of AI-related shares to throw a net over runaway stock prices.
Investors with connections to the gov't sold off a significant volume of AI shares to throw a net over runaway stock prices.
Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft collectively plan to spend $660b this year to build out A.I. infrastructure, according to their public statements.
The figure is a 40% increase above the $410b they spent in 2025 and 165% more than the $245b they laid out in 2024.
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FedEx and private equity firm Advent Holdings lead a group that is buying InPost, a Polish firm operating a chain of parcel locker sites across Europe.
The agreed price is €15.60 per InPost share, setting the acquisition’s value at about €7.8 billion, or roughly $9.2 billion.
Last week, the Swiss franc’s value climbed to 0.77 against the dollar after gaining more than 17 percent since the beginning of 2025.
The franc reached its strongest since 2015 against both the dollar & the euro as investors sought safe stores of wealth outside of the U.S.
The latest stress test by Norges Bank Investment Management, the sovereign wealth fund managing the country’s oil and gas revenues, assessed the damage that four different catastrophes would have on its portfolio.
climate disaster, debt crisis, geopolitical economic disruption, collapse in AI
As widely expected, the U.S. Federal Reserve’s rate-setting Open Market Committee made no changes to its policy interest rates at its 28 January meeting, leaving the rate on deposits at 3.5 percent and the lending rate at 3.75 percent.
The decision was made on a 10-to-2 vote.
US gov is to provide a $1.3b loan & $277m in financing to USA Rare Earth, the company mine rare earth minerals & uses them to produce high-tech magnets.
In return, they will issue 16.1m shares to the U.S. commerce dept as well as warrants good for an additional 17.6m shares.
