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UBS is a Swiss multinational investment bank and financial services firm, offering wealth management, asset management, and investment banking worldwide.
Philadelphia Semiconductor Index stocks are on course to lose more than $1 trillion after a roughly 10% six-session fall, Bloomberg reported. We calculate that about 8 of those 10 points came in the last three sessions, while UBS calls the move a recalibration of expectations.
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UBS began coverage of Core Scientific and Applied Digital at Buy, citing 57 GW of data center capacity needed in 2027 against 38 GW with confirmed power. Its forecast of about 80% annual EBITDA growth through 2029 needs sites that already have grid connections, because new requests take years to clear.
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SK Hynix has picked Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to lead a US listing of its Solidigm flash unit that could raise about $10 billion. Bloomberg's reported ceiling of $100 billion asks investors to pay AI-memory prices for a NAND storage business.
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Christian Bittar, formerly of Deutsche Bank, had his Euribor conviction quashed days after the Court of Appeal cleared five ex-Barclays traders. He had pleaded guilty, so the ruling bears directly on former Barclays trader Peter Johnson, who also pleaded guilty and has begun his own appeal.
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SpaceX's reported $8 billion purchase of 14 MHz brings Starlink Mobile to roughly 80 MHz, T-Mobile CTO John Saw wrote, against his carrier's nearly 400 MHz. His wider argument is that most phone traffic happens indoors, where SpaceX would have to add coverage one building at a time.
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SpaceX's plan to become a major US mobile carrier cut AT&T and Verizon shares 10% and T-Mobile's 14% on Friday, erasing more than $50 billion in value. JPMorgan and UBS analysts say matching the incumbents would take a ground network SpaceX has yet to build, so business wireless buyers are negotiating against that construction timetable.
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Eight global banks raised their average 2026 growth forecast for South Korea to 3.5% in September, a sixth monthly rise, on surging chip exports. At 2.8% for 2027, just under the Bank of Korea's 2.9%, they expect a sharper slowdown than the central bank does.
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The four wirehouses lost 517 advisors net in the first half of 2026, more than in all of 2025, Diamond Consultants reported. The cost shows up more in assets than in heads, with 41 departing teams each managing $500 million or more.
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Wealthy Gen Z collectors averaged $328,880 on fine art in the first half of 2026, more than twice boomers, an Art Basel and UBS survey found. That lead rests on the 13% who spent over $1 million, perhaps three dozen people in a generation that mostly keeps its collections out of public view.
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Billionaires worth about $160 billion have left Britain or cut their ties in two years, by Bloomberg's count, more than those still in its index hold. The figure is net worth, not cash sent abroad, so the tax effect it can show is on who lives where and when they left.
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Ray Dalio called AI a "classic bubble" near bursting in Singapore, citing rising rates on AI debt that Morgan Stanley sees nearing $570 billion this year. With hyperscaler capex near all of operating cash flow, the cost of the bonds that fill the gap decides whether he is right.
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Capitolis raised $220 million, including a $120 million Series E led by Citi at a $1.9 billion valuation, with eight other big institutions joining. Most of the money backs its purchase of eSecLending, putting securities lending inside the capital and balance-sheet software Capitolis sells to banks.
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JPMorganChase topped Evident AI's bank ranking for a fourth straight year, and Evident says its lead over banks outside the top ten is widening. The firm credits platform architecture the smaller banks have yet to build.
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Kling AI has hired CICC, Goldman Sachs and UBS for a Hong Kong IPO of at least $1 billion, after a July round valued it at $15 billion or more. A float of about 6% would set the first public price for an AI video business valued privately at 30 to 36 times its revenue run rate.
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About 100 tech billionaires added a record $845bn in the first nine months of 2026, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The gains sit in a few US fortunes tied to AI share prices, so they describe this year's stock market better than next year's AI spending.
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Seven core OPEC+ members held November output targets unchanged while Gulf exports run at 60% to 80% of normal and Brent trades above $100 a barrel. Their output already sits below quota, so relief for buyers depends on Hormuz shipping and government reserves.
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BLS revisions cut 60,000 jobs from July and August payrolls, turning July into a 10,000 loss, before September added just 29,000. With August PCE inflation at 3.4%, the case for another hike after the Fed's September move to 3.75%-4% now rests mostly on prices.
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Quad-A drew 900 people to its 25th VISION conference, sponsored by JPMorgan Wealth Management, UBS and Wells Fargo. Its chief executive relays a view that some firms now use it as their diversity summit, so part of the growth may be spending moved out of the firms.
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Fed policymakers hiked in September against inflation that supplies about 4 points of the 6%-plus nominal growth now outrunning a 5.16% 10-year yield. With the $2 trillion deficit adding about 5% a year to the debt, a slowdown that leaves yields near 5% would push the debt ratio up.
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Twenty-one institutions have set a first-half-2027 date for a jointly issued dollar token. The float arithmetic points to a different motive: defending settlement flows, not earning on reserves.
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