For when I'm reading this far into the future, there was a new AI player suddenly appeared yesterday, called DeepSeek. It appears to have been built in China for a tiny fraction of what the big American AI players are spending. It made the market panic, everyone bailed out of the chip companies. The chip companie have been doing incredibly well as you need loads of chips to run your ai on, andn demand is outstripping supply, so companies like Nvidia have made a fortune. Yesterday Nvidia lost HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS in value. In 2025 that is still considered quite a lot of money.
I have a few hundred quid in American tech stonks, via the NASDAQ exchange-traded fund (ETC). Yesterday it dropped about six percent, but it's crep up another two since then. It's about level over the last month. My others are doing well though, Lloyds has been creeping up recently.
I had a look at my work share save schemes again today. I thought "are they maturing this year?". They are not. Every time I look at them they seem to get further away, I think one doesn't mature until about 2028. Will I still be working by then??
⬅️ Donald Trump walks into a bar... :: Run stats 29/1/25 - 4'57/K ➡️
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