Our top 5 stocks from mid-November until the eve of December’s Monthly Meeting

Our top 5 stocks from mid-November until the eve of December’s Monthly Meeting

U.S. stocks have been trending higher since the Investing Club’s November Monthly Meeting as markets celebrate signs of cooling inflation and a seemingly less hawkish Federal Reserve . Watch our December Monthly Meeting at live noon ET and later on video. The S & P 500 has jumped 5.2% since the market close on the … Read more

Swiss regulator calls for more powers after Credit Suisse collapse

Swiss regulator calls for more powers after Credit Suisse collapse

Axel Lehmann, chairman of Credit Suisse Group AG, Colm Kelleher, chairman of UBS Group AG, Karin Keller-Sutter, Switzerland’s finance minister, Alain Berset, Switzerland’s president, Thomas Jordan, president of the Swiss National Bank (SNB), Marlene Amstad, chairperson of the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA), left to right, during a news conference in Bern, Switzerland, on … Read more

GPT and other AI models can’t analyze an SEC filing, researchers find

GPT and other AI models can’t analyze an SEC filing, researchers find

Patronus AI cofounders Anand Kannappan and Rebecca Qian Patronus AI Large language models, similar to the one at the heart of ChatGPT, frequently fail to answer questions derived from Securities and Exchange Commission filings, researchers from a startup called Patronus AI found. Even the best-performing AI model configuration they tested, OpenAI’s GPT-4-Turbo, when armed with … Read more

Maersk begins rerouting via southern Africa

Maersk begins rerouting via southern Africa

Danish shipping giant Maersk confirmed on Tuesday that its vessels due to transit the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden would take the Cape of Good Hope route around the south of Africa after a spate of attacks by Houthi militants from Yemen. Along with a host of other firms, the company had previously announced … Read more

Banks close record number of branches in 2021, led by Wells Fargo

A man walks past a Wells Fargo Bank branch on a rainy morning in Washington. Gary Cameron | Reuters U.S. banks closed a record number of retail branches in 2021 as customers increasingly turn to digital banking and the industry consolidates. On net, U.S. banks shuttered 2,927 branches last year, according to S&P Global Market … Read more