Tim Hume

2 months ago | moniify.com | Noorhan Abusamra |Ronojoy Mazumdar |Tim Hume

Market watchers will have a lot to take in this week.  In India, all eyes will be on whether the Reserve Bank makes a long-awaited rate cut. And in the US and the Gulf, there’ll be some big names revealing their earnings info — we’re talking Amazon, Alphabet and Emaar. Here’s what you need to be paying attention to. Alphabet and Amazon have their turn in the earnings spotlight this week, with some big numbers also expected from the AI and chip space, including AMD, Qualcomm and Palantir.

2 months ago | moniify.com | Sumit Kumar |Ronojoy Mazumdar |Yuvraj Malik |Tim Hume

Your 50-year-old uncle’s been holding off on big purchases, waiting to see what gets cheaper after India’s budget is presented by the finance minister on Saturday. No pressure, Nirmala Sitharaman — there’s only about 1.5 billion Indian citizens to please. And you can count on a lot of them being glued to their screens come budget day, closely tracking any movement on everything from taxes to levies on goods. Here’s what MONIIFY will be looking out for.

2 months ago | moniify.com | Chantal Fouad |Tim Hume

Hot on the heels of DeepSeek shaking up the AI game, another Chinese ChatGPT rival has stepped into the limelight. Tech giant Alibaba released its Qwen 2.5-Max AI model on Wednesday, claiming its the fastest on the block.  Throw in other recent contenders like Kimi and MiniMax, and one thing’s clear: China’s well and truly crashed the AI party. This buzz is giving a solid boost to Chinese stocks listed in the US, while Shanghai hits the pause button for the Lunar New Year holiday.