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Stakes Rising In The US-China AI Race

Global Finance

This sentiment is echoed by AI Now, a research institute, which asserts that “AI is now firmly positioned as a critical strategic technology for the geopolitical and economic ambitions of nation-states.” This can deliver benefits: China’s increasing dominance of the electric vehicle market, for example,” Rogoyski explains.

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10 Monday AM Reads

Barry Ritholtz

Barron’s ) • The Bear Market’s Survivors Share Their Biggest Lessons : With the S&P 500 in the longest bear market since 1973, individual investors maneuver differently from just months ago. But most of all, it was just simple maths according to Druck. The easy part is over. The first was don’t lose money.

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10 Tuesday AM Reads

Barry Ritholtz

My Two-for-Tuesday morning train WFH reads: • Stock Pickers Never Had a Chance Against Hard Math of the Market : In years like this one, when just a few big companies outperform, it’s hard to assemble a winning portfolio. Businessweek ) but see With cash earning 5%, why risk money on the stock market? With the 10 year at 4.2%

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Zest AI CEO: Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping Lending and Credit

PYMNTS

In this case, the “cake” is the improved performance and economics that many banks experience when they update systems that in some cases have been in place since the 1950s. “On On average, our customers will see a 20 percent lift in approvals and a 30 percent reduction in charge-offs just by deploying better math,” de Vere said.

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Q&A with finance leader: Lead with context, coach with content

Future CFO

Kris Giswold (KG): My journey in finance began with my love of puzzles and numbers. I can vividly remember my first high school economics class, that was when I first realized that math wasn’t only theoretical. Numbers could tell a story, they could explain behaviours and predict the future.

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Lego Builds Stellar First Half As ‘Kidults’ Stay Home

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Consumer sales grew 14 percent compared with the first half of 2019 and the brand’s global market share increased. The digital numbers for Lego.com doubled to more than 100 million in the first half of 2020. Toy industry sales increased by 9 percent in the first half of 2020 across the 12 global markets tracked by The NPD Group.

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10 Friday AM Reads

Barry Ritholtz

The platform had punched above its weight in pure user numbers thanks to an unrivaled ability to both distribute real-time information and make expertise available. Real Estate Bust Exposes Big Divide At the heart of the country’s economic and social crisis is a broken housing market, which has amplified social divisions.

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