However, the inverse relationship between the two "always reasserts itself" says James Steel, chief precious metals analyst at HSBC, with a soft dollar acting as a "real stabilizing force" for the gold market.
HSBC is preparing to wind down its M&A and equity capital markets businesses in Europe, the UK and the Americas as part of a major shake-up of its investment banking operations, a memo showed on Tuesday.
Just one year after its launch, HSBC's cross-border payments mobile app is no more. A Yahoo Finance report on Thursday (Jan.
HSBC Holdings PLC is reportedly set to pull the plug on what it hoped was a 'killer app' only a year after it was launched. According to a report by Financial News, the lender is said to be on the verge of informing staff, following what is said to have been a struggle with compliance functions.
HSBC has decided to shutter its international payments app Zing, potentially triggering around 400 job losses, a source familiar with the matter said, as CEO Georges Elhedery steps up cost-cutting efforts at Europe's largest bank.
HSBC is reportedly considering a sale of its Australian consumer banking operation. That's one of the options before the British banking giant as it tries to pare down its business, Bloomberg News reported Monday (Jan. 20), citing sources with knowledge of the matter.
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.