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Finance News 22 October 2025 - 4 November 2025

Banks Warn of Bubble as AI Darling Palantir Plunges from Record High

Banks Warn of Bubble as AI Darling Palantir Plunges from Record High

Market Rally Hits a Wall of Warnings After a red-hot October rally in U.S. stocks, November kicked off with a stark reality check. Last week, Wall Street’s major indexes were at all-time highs, buoyed by Big Tech earnings and surging investments in artificial intelligence reuters.com. But now top bankers are urging caution. Morgan Stanley CEO Ted Pick and Goldman Sachs chief David Solomon both warned the market may be due for a pullback, citing frothy tech valuations reuters.com. “Technology multiples are full,” Solomon observed, suggesting parts of the market have grown too exuberant. This sentiment echoes JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon, who
Lenskart IPO Frenzy: Sky-High Valuation Meets Surging Demand – Will Investors See Big Gains?

Lenskart IPO Frenzy: Sky-High Valuation Meets Surging Demand – Will Investors See Big Gains?

IPO Overview: Unicorn Eyewear Retailer Goes Public Lenskart Solutions’ IPO is one of India’s biggest new-age tech listings this year, riding a wave of IPO mania on Dalal Street. The company – an omnichannel eyewear unicorn – is raising ₹7,278 crore through a combination of new shares and sales by existing shareholders financialexpress.com. At the ₹382–402 per share price band, Lenskart would be valued around ₹69,500–70,000 crore (approximately $7.9–8.0 billion) reuters.com. This makes it among the largest IPOs of 2025 in India, in line with other big-ticket listings amid a record year for fundraising reuters.com. Issue structure: About ₹2,150 crore
3 November 2025
ANSES November 2025 Payout Shocker: New Dates Announced as Stocks Skyrocket to Record Highs

ANSES November 2025 Payout Shocker: New Dates Announced as Stocks Skyrocket to Record Highs

ANSES Confirms November 2025 Payment Dates (Holiday Adjustments Included) Argentina’s social security agency ANSES has published its complete payment schedule for November 2025, covering pensions, family allowances, and other social benefits lanacion.com.ar lanacion.com.ar. The calendar is organized, as always, by the last digit of beneficiaries’ DNI (ID), but this month it required special tweaks due to two public holidays in the third week of November ambito.com. The government declared Friday Nov. 21 a “feriado puente” (bridge holiday) and Monday Nov. 24 a national holiday for Sovereignty Day ambito.com, creating a four-day weekend with no ANSES payments. As a result, ANSES
3 November 2025
Activist Investor Shocks Wall Street: $10.9B Comerica Sale Sparks Bank M&A Boom

Activist Investor Shocks Wall Street: $10.9B Comerica Sale Sparks Bank M&A Boom

Activist Investors Target Underperforming Banks Until recently, regional banks drew little activist attention. That changed when HoldCo Asset Management loudly challenged Comerica’s board. In July 2025 HoldCo issued a report warning that Comerica and other midsize banks had underperformed due to poor management decisions ts2.tech ts2.tech. Within weeks, Comerica’s management began formally exploring strategic options, leading to the Fifth Third deal. HoldCo’s founders Vik Ghei and Misha Zaitzeff explained that many regional bank CEOs were overpaid and under-delivering – and they vowed to “shame” boards into action (via proxy fights if necessary) intellectia.ai ts2.tech. After Comerica, HoldCo moved on: it
Morgan Stanley Jumps Into Pre-IPO Trading – CEO Ted Pick’s First Big Deal Targets Startup Shares

Morgan Stanley Jumps Into Pre-IPO Trading – CEO Ted Pick’s First Big Deal Targets Startup Shares

Private Markets Boom as Startups Stay Private Longer Morgan Stanley’s EquityZen acquisition comes amid a broader private-market boom on Wall Street. In recent years, cash-rich startups have delayed going public, creating an “iceberg” of hidden value in the private markets. Firms like OpenAI, SpaceX and TikTok-parent ByteDance now hold valuations rivaling the largest public companies, blurring the line between Silicon Valley and the stock market reuters.com. This trend has two big side effects: investors are eager to get in early on the next breakout tech firm, and startup employees are seeking ways to cash out some of their stock awards
29 October 2025
Fiserv Earnings Miss Expectations, Shares Slide – What’s Next for the Fintech Giant?

Fiserv Earnings Miss Expectations, Shares Slide – What’s Next for the Fintech Giant?

Background: Fiserv (NYSE: FI) is a Fortune 500 payments and fintech company (owner of Clover point-of-sale systems, etc.). Before today’s release, analysts expected a solid quarter – roughly 9% revenue growth and $2.65 EPS stockstory.org. Instead, Fiserv’s adjusted EPS came in at only $2.04 gurufocus.com, missing estimates by about $0.60. Notably, GAAP EPS was $1.46 (up 49% YoY) due to a large one-time item in last year’s quarter gurufocus.com – a quirk of accounting that masked underlying weakness in the core business. Key Numbers: Revenue and profit details came in below forecasts. Analysts on average had expected ~$5.36 billion in revenue
29 October 2025
Alien Probe or Cosmic Relic? Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Baffles Scientists (updated 27.10.2025)

Harvard Scientist’s Halloween Warning: Comet 3I/ATLAS May Hide Alien Tech and Spark Market Chaos

A Mysterious Interstellar Comet Approaches the Sun An interstellar mystery object is streaking through our Solar System this week, captivating scientists and skywatchers alike. Officially designated 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1), this object is only the third visitor ever confirmed to come from beyond our Solar System ts2.tech. It follows in the footsteps of the cigar-shaped 1I/’Oumuamua (detected in 2017) and comet 2I/Borisov (in 2019) ts2.tech. But 3I/ATLAS is proving to be a unique cosmic guest of its own. Discovered on July 1, 2025 by the ATLAS sky survey telescope in Chile, it immediately stood out by racing in on a steep
29 October 2025
Rolls-Royce Soars to Record High: What’s Fueling the Unstoppable Rally?

Rolls-Royce Stock Hovers at £11 After 2025 Rally – Is the Engine of Growth Still Running?

Rolls-Royce Stock Steadies After Record Surge Rolls-Royce’s stock is holding steady around £11 per share as of Monday, Oct. 27, after an explosive run this year. In morning trading the share price hovered at approximately 1,121 pence on the London Stock Exchange directorstalkinterviews.com. That’s virtually unchanged from last week, suggesting the market is catching its breath. Just weeks earlier, Rolls-Royce hit a year-to-date peak of about 1,196p – an all-time high for the company – before easing back slightly ts2.tech. Even with this minor retreat, the stock has doubled in 2025, a remarkable feat for a FTSE 100 blue-chip. Recent
27 October 2025
AI Frenzy Fuels Record Wall St Rally as Shutdown Drags On – Key Market News (Oct 6-7, 2025)

Stock Market Today 27.10.2025

ENDEDLive coverage has endedEnded: October 28, 2025, 12:00 AM EDT CSL faces second strike on executive pay as board survives spill vote October 27, 2025, 11:58 PM EDT. CSL has recorded a second strike on its executive pay after more than 40% of votes opposed at its AGM in Melbourne. The approval threshold to trigger a board spill is 25%, so this marks a second consecutive rebuke, though shareholders voted to keep the current board. The biotech group has seen its share price slide this year, weighed by weaker US vaccination momentum and the costly 2022 acquisition of Swiss firm
27 October 2025
GPT‑5 Has Arrived: OpenAI’s Next‑Gen AI Stuns With Upgrades in Coding, Reasoning, and Safety

OpenAI Hires 100 Ex-Bankers at $150/Hour to Train an AI to Replace Wall Street Analysts

OpenAI’s “Project Mercury” – Bankers Training Their Replacement Wall Street’s junior bankers may have just met their future replacement – and it’s a chatbot armed with Excel macros and finance textbooks. In a move that grabbed industry attention this week, OpenAI (the firm behind ChatGPT) has been secretly recruiting over a hundred former Wall Street analysts to train an AI system how to do their old jobs timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Dubbed Project Mercury, the initiative invites ex-bankers from elite firms like Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Morgan Stanley to act as AI tutors, teaching OpenAI’s models to build the kind of intricate financial
26 October 2025
Western Union Stock Edges Up on Q3 Beat – CEO Calls Crypto an “Opportunity”

Western Union Stock Edges Up on Q3 Beat – CEO Calls Crypto an “Opportunity”

Investors will be watching WU’s short-term outlook as it delivers Q4 results and commentary. Wolfe notes management’s plan to stabilize its core retail business, re-accelerate digital growth, and diversify into new financial services investing.com. In the near term, stock momentum may hinge on whether retail volumes recover after a 2024 slump, and whether earnings forecasts hold up under higher interest costs. In the long term, Western Union’s global brand, broad agent network and high dividend yield could appeal to conservative investors if the company succeeds in its turnaround. “Our goal is to provide more and better solutions…to give our customers
24 October 2025
AI Frenzy Fuels Record Wall St Rally as Shutdown Drags On – Key Market News (Oct 6-7, 2025)

Stock Market Today 22.10.2025

ENDEDLive coverage has endedEnded: October 24, 2025, 6:00 AM EDT Teleflex (TFX) Crosses Above 200-Day Moving Average October 22, 2025, 1:18 PM EDT. Teleflex Incorporated (TFX) rallied past its 200-day moving average on Thursday, trading as high as $356.68 after a session high near that level. The stock was up about 1.9% on the day as it extended its year-long chart against the DMA of $355.98. On a 52-week basis, TFX traded between a low of $289 and a high of $449.375, with the latest print around $354.73. The DMA reading, provided by TechnicalAnalysisChannel.com, adds another data point for traders
22 October 2025
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