BLOK News and Press, Amplify Transformational Data Sharing From 09/27/23

2023-09-27 02:45:00 ET Summary The widespread adoption of generative AI (GenAI), exemplified by tools such as ChatGPT, is ushering society into a new era with novel risks and opportunities. The next phase of GenAI’s growth is a shift from training to inference, which could ...

2023-09-25 00:09:00 ET Summary For the week, the S&P 500 was down 2.9%. The best performer last week was Volatility, as investors were willing to pay higher premiums to hedge their downside risk. Transportation and Healthcare stocks held up the best last week, while defens...

2023-09-21 04:00:00 ET Summary The investment landscape is currently experiencing the exuberance of the generative AI hype cycle. Trade disputes, economic sanctions, or geopolitical tensions often cause investors to flee stocks they see as negatively impacted. Value investors ...

2023-08-24 02:45:00 ET Summary As an active investment manager, we are constantly monitoring and re-evaluating our holdings to make sure that they continue to track our investment strategies. The technology sector has been dominating this year, in fact it was the driver behind the...

2023-08-23 12:30:00 ET Summary The sovereign credit spreads on the U.S. really ballooned out. While it got resolved this time, it does make the markets more jittery. Each time it happens, it's a cumulative effect. And that is certainly not good for the reserve currency because reserve...

2023-08-23 03:57:00 ET Summary Traditional finance had two dominant perspectives on cryptoassets as 2022 drew to a close. Some saw bitcoin and the like as merely stand-ins for high beta equity market exposure. The correlation between Bitcoin and the S&P 500, NASDAQ, and other ...

2023-08-21 06:45:00 ET Summary After making a new 2023 high on July 31, the market is now in the process of consolidating its gains and expanding its participation. The best performer last week was Volatility, as investors looked for ways to protect their gains from further downsi...

2023-08-18 23:15:00 ET Summary Following last year’s plunge across markets, technology and growth stocks are back on top. Aside from a brief wobble in February, year-to-date growth has crushed every other investment style. Despite growth dominating equity performance in...

2023-08-14 22:35:00 ET Summary While we have not made new highs on the 10-year Treasury yield for 2023, closing on Friday at 4.167%, we are too close for comfort on the bond yield front. Unlike 2022, the stock market – and the tech sector in particular – had been ign...

2023-08-10 22:45:00 ET Summary Joe Biden has signed an executive order restricting U.S. private equity and venture capital investment in Chinese companies from sensitive sectors like microchips and AI. The move, along with similar steps over the last year, is increasingly scaring ...