Declines follow steep falls for software shares in previous session over worries about new AI tool
New Anthropic legal tool sends shares in companies including S&P Global and Intuit sliding
US retail giant joins club dominated by tech groups
Software group pulls Nasdaq lower after reporting 66% year-on-year surge in data centre costs
Brazilian digital lender raised $434mn in Nasdaq flotation
Optimism over earnings powers Wall Street rebound from Greenland crisis
Chair Jay Powell says robust growth and steadying jobs market show borrowing costs are not ‘restrictive’
Heightened geopolitical tensions trigger steep rise in prices of precious and base metals
UnitedHealth and Humana drop more than 10% after hours on Monday on news of Trump administration’s plan
Tracking the Donald Trump show has become pointless for investors in the short term
US president backed off his threat of new duties on European economies after market tumult
And a lot of hedge funds are probably hating it
Food company’s shares drop sharply as its largest investor explores exiting the group it helped to create
Plus the sustainability of the small-cap rally
European leaders criticise stance on Arctic island, with French president taking aim at ‘useless aggressivity’
Plus mid caps play catch-up
Market Questions is the FT’s guide to the week ahead
There are three possible explanations and investors must choose one
Gold and silver also in demand, boosted by unrest in Iran, Venezuela and Trump’s claims on Greenland
S&P 500 recoups some of its earlier losses but still declines 0.5%
The market is navigating a regime where there is more volatility, dispersion of returns and changes in stock leadership
Contrarians have their work cut out
Optimistic shareholders need to apply some sort of probability to this oil sector revenue actually materialising
A strong economy, a bubble that doesn’t burst, and a bit of AI sanity
Financial Times columnist Gillian Tett predicted that the Magnificent 7 tech stocks …
