Under the triple pressures of high inflation, high interest rates, and fiscal austerity, the living standards of the middle class are being systematically eroded. France is not an isolated case; it is merely the most prominent outlet for the breakdown of the European social contract.
The CET1 ratio determines the room banks can do three things: loan, buy back shares, and take losses JPM: CET1 from 14.8% → 13.9%, RWA increased $51 billion GS: CET1 from 14.3% (early year) → 12.4%, both market and credit RWA rose WFC: CET1 from 10.3% → 10.0%, target range bottom line Citi: CET1 maintains 12.8% but is only about 120 basis points higher than requirement
Asymmetry of risk: If any of the AI story breaks – capital spending slows down, model performance bottlenecks, regulatory tightening – the higher the concentration, the sharper the pullback. In a market where the yield of ten-year treasury bond is already higher than the stock earnings yield, why does it still refuse to call back despite soaring nearly 70% in oil prices this year, and the 10-year bond interest rate still remains near 5.24%?
Alex Gerko Using 25,000 mostly Nvidia AI chips and a supercomputer in Iceland, XTX competes ferociously in the business of market making — and reaps big rewards. the firm expanded into equities, commodities, and index derivatives, establishing itself as one of the largest electronic market-makers across asset classes. Its daily trading volumes soon reached hundreds of billions of dollars, spanning more than 35 countries. XTX’s core edge lay in forecasting and execution. Its models analyzed tens of thousands of instruments — spot currencies, futures, equities, ETFs, and options — updating probabilistic forecasts multiple times per second. The firm’s infrastructure evolved into one of the world’s most powerful private computing systems, comprising tens of thousands of GPUs and hundreds of pe