Jose Rasco, HSBC Global Private Banking and Wealth Management Americas CIO, and Jim Paulsen, Paulsen Perspectives author, joins 'Closing Bell Overtime' to talk the day's market action.
Willem Sels, global chief investment officer of HSBC Global Private Banking and Wealth discusses his concerns on Europe and what the Euro-Dollar falling below parity would mean for markets.
Mortgage rates continued to edge higher this week as HSBC Holdings PLC was among those to hike as lenders grappled with rising swap rates. Though sluggish economic data and news of subsiding inflation in December in recent days has paved the way for a February rate cut, banks already faced growing borrowing costs in line with a surge in government debt yields before this week's figures.
AMD offers less competitive AI GPU than Nvidia is not new news. This explains the 20% valuation discount of AMD to Nvidia. AMD could deliver 30% earnings growth pa assuming market share stays the same, as CEO Lisa Su projects demand for datacenter GPU to grow 60% pa to $500bn by 2028. AMD's PEG is well below 1 in 2025-27E, suggesting AMD is being undervalued rather than overvalued.
HSBC's stock (NYSE: HSBC) fared well over the last year, rising by about 33% since the start of 2024, versus a gain of about 22% on the S&P 500. This compares to rival Barclays (NYSE: BCS) stock which has gained almost 76% over the same period and JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM) which remains up by about 50% over the same period.
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has received a significant vote of confidence from HSBC, as analyst Christopher Johnen raised the company's price target to $270, up from $225, while maintaining a “Buy” rating.
HSBC, UAL and SCHW made it to the Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) momentum stocks list on January 10, 2024.
HSBC Holdings PLC (LSE:HSBA)'s First Direct was among the latest lenders to cut mortgage rates this week, albeit before a renewed uptick in costs in recent days. First Direct on Tuesday signalled cuts of up to 0.3% across fixed-rate deals, bringing interest on its five-year 90% loan-to-value down to 4.74%, for instance.
At the time, the market was anticipating Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) would mount a challenge against Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) in artificial intelligence (AI) chips; an analyst is now cautioning that the firm might not have a competitive edge in the sector.
HSBC Holdings said on Monday it has named Lisa McGeough as president and chief executive of its U.S. operations.
HSBC Holdings PLC (LSE:HSBA) has signalled a string of mortgage rate reductions to kick off the new year, in line with a wider drop across the market in recent days. The lender on Friday said rates across its residential and buy-to-let deals would be reduced from Monday, including on two, three, five- and 10-year fixed products.
James Cheo, CIO of HSBC Global Private Banking & Wealth believes that stocks will continue their upward momentum in 2025. He predicts S&P 500 earnings growth of around 10%, driven by sectors like financials, healthcare and industrials.