Nvidia Earnings Expectations and Apple Vision Pro U-Turn | Bloomberg Technology

22 Feb 2024 (9 months ago)

NVIDIA Earnings Report

Wall Street anticipates NVIDIA's earnings report, hoping for confirmation of the company's potential to meet expectations driven by the boom in artificial intelligence (AI).
Nancy Curtin, CIO of Alti Global, discusses NVIDIA's upcoming earnings report and emphasizes the company's strong position in the AI market.
Curtin highlights NVIDIA's competitive advantages, including its hardware, software, tools, development, and training modules, as well as its cloud and platform-agnostic approach.

Apple loyalists are returning their Vision Pro headsets, raising questions about the future of the device.
The Apple Vision Pro has a higher-than-average return rate due to complaints about bulkiness, battery life, and comfort.
Apple's Chief Operating Officer, Jeff Williams, and other executives visit Taiwan to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Foxconn, a major Apple device manufacturer.
Tim Cook, Apple's CEO, sends a video message instead of attending the event in person, possibly due to geopolitical challenges related to China and Taiwan.

Bitcoin has climbed for four straight weeks, reaching almost $52,000 and signaling a potential eclipse of the $69,000 mark.
MicroStrategy Chairman Michael Saylor emphasizes the emergence of Bitcoin as a $1 trillion asset class, comparable to tech giants like Apple, Google, and Microsoft.
Bitcoin has tripled in price since the start of 2023 and could potentially retest its record high.

Global Foundries outperforms the market due to increased government funding and a shift towards supply chain movement in the United States.
The semiconductor index is seeing chipmakers fall across the board, with the exception of Global Foundries.

Nancy Curtin discusses investment strategies in the tech sector, including exposure to the S&P 500, a global tech manager, small technology managers, big tech and little tech through private markets, and infrastructure investments.
Liz Young emphasizes the importance of diversification within the AI theme, as the way we expect AI to be profitable and exciting today may change over the long term.
Young suggests investing in the AI theme in a diversified way and keeping in mind that the timeframe for its maturation is longer than one year.
Liz Young discusses the recent shift in focus from equities to bonds due to higher interest rates, highlighting opportunities in the Treasury market, particularly on the short end of the curve.

Capital One announced a $34 billion all-stock deal to acquire Discover Financial Services, aiming to compete in the largest payment networks.
Stephanie Choo, a partner at Portage with $2 billion in assets under management, comments on the Capital One and Discover Financial Services deal and its potential impact on M&A in the fintech industry.
Stephanie Choo, a partner at Portage, discusses the fintech industry and investment opportunities.
The recent acquisition of Discover by Capital One may impact the competitive landscape for fintech startups.
Consumer credit has been a challenging area for VC investment, but there is renewed interest in the sector.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a key area of focus for fintech startups and investors, particularly in fraud detection and financial services.
The democratization of alternatives in the asset management space is another area of interest for Portage.
Talent in the fintech industry is drawn to AI-related problems and financial services-oriented AI solutions.

Twitter's acquisition by Elon Musk and subsequent changes have raised concerns about content moderation and the platform's future.
The suspension of Alexei Navalny's widow's account on Twitter highlights the challenges of content moderation at scale.
Kurt Wagner, author of a book on Twitter's struggles with moderation, discusses the complexities of content moderation and the potential implications for the 2024 US election.
The board of Twitter considered appointing Andy Jassy, who is now the CEO of Amazon, as the CEO instead of Jack Dorsey in 2015.
The board ultimately decided to bring back Jack Dorsey because they thought Twitter was a product company with a product problem and needed a product-minded CEO.