Exchange-Traded Funds, Equity Futures Lower Pre-Bell Wednesday Ahead of FOMC Meeting Minutes
Nomura's Global Macro Research Director: The Federal Reserve will only cut interest rates once in 2025, and it is even possible that there may be a rate increase?
Is the interest rate cut no longer happening.
"AI venture capital" is making a big splash! Nearly half of the venture capital in the USA for 2024 is flowing towards AI companies.
① In 2024, the Global venture capital financing amount increased to 368.5 billion USD, with AI startups accounting for 35.7% of the financing, up from 24.7% in 2023; ② USA startups secured 209 billion USD in financing, nearly half of which went to AI companies; ③ In 2024, USA AI startups received 97 billion USD in financing, a record high.
Intel has been hit again, as Dell has for the first time used AMD for commercial PC chips.
Analysts indicate that this marks a significant breakthrough for AMD in the commercial PC market and reflects the entire PC Industry moving into an era empowered by AI. However, this is another blow for Intel, which is struggling to maintain its dominance in the PC chip market.
What happened? Global chip stocks have collectively surged, with NVIDIA and Taiwan Semiconductor both reaching new closing highs.
NVIDIA's intraday stock price has broken through $150 for the first time since last November, with semiconductor stocks in Asia, Europe, and the USA seeing a broad rise. The demand for AI stimulated Foxconn's revenue to reach a record high in the fourth quarter of last year, becoming the main driver for leading chip stocks. At the same time, Microsoft and OpenAI have both released bullish signals for AI demand, and the market is also looking forward to Jensen Huang's significant speech on Monday, which has boosted sentiment.
Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM.US) stock price hits a new high! The booming demand for AI GPUs and AI ASICs is inseparable from it.
Currently, the two major leading forces in the AI ASIC field—Broadcom and Marvell Technology—are both major clients of Taiwan Semiconductor.