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Featured Story
Distorted Markets with AI Bubble
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Analyst: Seungyun Nam (NSY Management)
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Research Assistant: Aishwarya Samptur
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NSY Management’s Nov 8, 2025 report by Seungyun Nam warns of a disconnect between record-high AI-driven markets and weakening fundamentals—rising jobless claims, poor sentiment, and slowing activity—suggesting inflated valuations may trigger corrections if earnings disappoint.
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Chainlink DECO Sandbox Is Now Publicly Accessible: Unlocking Privacy Innovation in Onchain Finance
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The Chainlink DECO Sandbox is now public, enabling institutions and Web3 developers to test privacy-preserving data verification via zero-knowledge proofs and TLS oracles for on-chain finance. Chainlink Blog
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A novel privacy-preserving oracle protocol, created by students and faculty at IC3.
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DECO is a privacy-preserving oracle protocol that enables users to prove facts about their web (TLS) sessions to oracles without revealing sensitive data. It works with modern TLS, requires no trusted hardware or server modifications, opening new use-cases for Web3.
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What happened when Trump met Xi?
The October 2025 Trump–Xi meeting briefly eased U.S.–China tensions with vague tariff pauses but achieved no lasting progress, offering only short-term relief without altering their ongoing strategic rivalry.
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Why the U.S. economy and S&P 500 are diverging
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The S&P 500 can rise despite a weak U.S. economy, as global tech and goods giants profit from scale and overseas revenues even amid slowing wages and consumer sentiment.
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Recommended Video or Podcast
In the discussion, Elon Musk and Joe Rogan examine AI’s future, government waste and censorship, immigration and elections, and envision a society transformed by automation with universal abundance and new meanings of work.
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2.Video: What Happens When Digital Superintelligence Arrives? Dr. Fei-Fei Li & Dr. Eric Schmidt at FII9:[Click here]
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Digital superintelligence, expected to add $22.3 trillion to the global economy by 2030, could become either humanity’s greatest advancement or its most destabilizing force, reshaping power, society, and security.
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3.Video: CEO Peng Zhao & Sequoia's Alfred Lin Discuss the Future of Markets:[Click here]
Global markets are being transformed by AI, automation and client-centric technology according to Peng Zhao and Alfred Lin. True value comes from data, workflows, and human creativity.
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4.Podcast: Machine Learning from a ‘‘Universe’’ of Signals:[Click here]
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The episode discusses a research paper using over 18,000 real-time forecasting signals in machine learning for investing, highlighting that feature engineering and inductive bias greatly improve strategy performance.
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5. Podcast: Taking Sides on Return Predictability:[Click here]
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The episode covers the research paper by R. David McLean, Jeffrey Pontiff and Christopher Reilly, showing that firms and short-sellers trade in line with return-predictability anomalies, while retail investors trade against them.
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Conferences & Events
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The “Generative AI Investing Summit & Wall Street Quant Awards” will bring together AI-investing and quantitative finance leaders to discuss tech-driven markets and recognize top quants.The conference is on December 3, 2025
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Join the free online workshop “AI & Estate Planning: Discover Powerful AI Tools that Save You Time & Money.” Learn to protect assets, streamline estate planning, and harness AI for legacy security.The conference is on December 9, 2025
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Discounts and Support Us
• Recommended publications
Weekly finance reading: Barron's (Student offer: $2/week for one year).
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• Recommended financial apps
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Stock and ETF trading and investing (Join via the link to get up to 20 free shares): Webull.
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Crypto trading and investing (Join via the link to get $30 in BTC): Coinbase.
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Stock and ETF technical analysis tool (Join via the link to get $15 off your subscription): TradingView.
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Prediction market betting (Join via the link to earn $10): Kalshi
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