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The US Export-Import Bank will invest $100bn to achieve President Trump’s plan for global energy dominance, with a first tranche of deals involving projects in Egypt, Pakistan and Europe, its new chair has said.

John Jovanovic, who was appointed in September, told the Financial Times that the government agency would finance efforts to secure US and allied supply chains for critical minerals, nuclear energy and liquefied natural gas to counter western reliance on China and Russia.

Ex-Im Bank was “back in a big way, and it’s open for business”, said Jovanovic in his first interview after taking over at the helm of the bank. 

Its focus would be on bringing “US energy molecules to every corner of the globe” and on addressing the west’s over-reliance on critical mineral supply chains that “are no longer fair”, he said.

“We can’t do anything else that we’re trying to do without these underlying critical raw material supply chains being secure, stable and functioning.”

Ex-Im is one of several US government agencies that have been charged by the White House with supporting energy and mineral projects in an effort to grow domestic industry and shore up western supply chains. 

The vulnerability of commodity flows has been thrown into sharp relief by the imposition by China this year of export restrictions on rare earth metals and magnets, as well as by the energy crisis in Europe following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. 

Jovanovic said Ex-Im’s early deals would include a credit insurance guarantee for $4bn of natural gas being delivered to Egypt by New York-based commodities group Hartree Partners, and a $1.25bn loan for the giant copper and gold Reko Diq mine being developed by Barrick Mining in Pakistan. 

The bank said it authorised $8.7bn in new transactions in the 12 months to the end of September. This does not include a $4.7bn loan that was reapproved in March to support an LNG project in Mozambique led by France’s TotalEnergies.

Jovanovic said Ex-Im had $100bn left to deploy of the $135bn authorised by Congress.

Ex-Im was being “inundated” with requests for support for LNG projects coming from Europe, Africa and Asia, and a series of multibillion-dollar LNG supply deals would be announced in the coming days, he said. 

While some development banks have climate change-related mandates that prevent them from investing in fossil fuels projects, Ex-Im cannot exclude them. Jovanovic said American LNG would be a “stabilising factor in providing energy security to parts of the world that need it most”.

Ex-Im’s increased focus on supporting LNG exports and energy security represents a shift of emphasis for the bank, which had been expanding support for renewable energy under former president Joe Biden. Last year it supported $1.6bn in green energy projects, an increase of 74 per cent compared to 2023.

Nuclear energy will be a focus under the bank’s new leadership. Ex-Im was “actively in discussions” about several nuclear projects in south-east Europe where US companies such as Westinghouse were looking to invest, said Jovanovic. It is also looking to back mining projects for uranium — used to make nuclear fuel — the flows of which have moved increasingly into China and Russia. 

The White House has stressed the importance of breaking the dependency on China for metals including copper, which is widely used in infrastructure projects, and rare earths, which go into the defence, energy and technology sectors.

Ex-Im was planning to finance critical minerals projects “in a large way” and was working on deals that were “very near the finish line”, said Jovanovic. Much of what was in the pipeline was “orders of magnitude larger” than the $1.25bn Reko Diq loan, he said.

The White House penned a minerals supply deal with Australia in October and was working on similar deals with other nations that Ex-Im was “ready to be a part of,” he added. 

Last year Ex-Im provided $5.9bn in medium-to-long-term export credit support, up from $4.7bn in 2023. This ranked it seventh behind the world’s leading export credit agencies, with China ($23.5bn) and Germany ($18.6bn) taking the top two spots, according to Ex-Im’s annual competitiveness report. 

The report, which was published in June, warned Ex-Im was being outgunned by rival export credit agencies with James Cruse, Ex-Im’s acting chair at the time, writing: “Ex-Im is running a 20th century [export credit agency] now into the first quarter of the 21st century.” 

 

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Nicolai Tangen, the head of the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, warned that the accelerating deployment of artificial intelligence risked deepening social and geopolitical inequalities across the globe.

The chief executive of Norway’s $2tn national fund said that as access to advanced models became increasingly expensive, AI had the potential to widen the gap between rich and poor individuals as well as nations. 

“You need prior education, you need electricity, you need digital infrastructure . . . There is a potential for this to amplify differences in the world,” Tangen said from his New York office overlooking Bryant Park.

“There is a potential for splitting societies, and there is a real potential for splitting the world into the countries which can afford it and the countries which cannot afford it.”

The 59-year-old executive said that different approaches to regulating AI could also widen growth rates between Europe and the US.

“Here in this country (the US), they’ve got a lot of AI and not so much regulation. In Europe, there is not so much AI but a lot of regulation,” he said, arguing that the EU’s tendency to over-regulate could hold back economic growth.

The former hedge-fund investor said governments and large companies would soon have to grapple with the consequences of uneven adoption, from labour-market disruption to questions of access and fairness.

While AI promises significant productivity gains — he estimates as much as 20 per cent within his own organisation — Tangen said policymakers risked falling behind the speed of technological change. 

“We live in a time where it’s totally futile to try to predict anything,” he said. “The focus now has to be on agility, culture and preparing societies for what’s coming.”

Tangen remains an AI optimist. He said that while the extraordinary boom in AI investment carried many of the hallmarks of a bubble, in the long term that might ultimately prove “not too bad” for the global economy.

He said that AI was a “pretty hot space” at the moment, driven by huge enthusiasm and rapid capital inflows, yet also represented a “massive societal transformation” that made traditional valuations hard to assess.

Even if parts of the sector were overinflated, Tangen said, the surge of capital into AI would still fund technologies that improve productivity. 

“If it is a bubble, it may not be such a bad bubble,” he said, pointing to potential long-term gains from advances in automation, data processing and model development.

The challenge for investors, he added, was distinguishing genuine breakthroughs from hype in a market dominated by a handful of powerful platform companies.

Tangen said AI was already reshaping the way the Norwegian fund operated — from investment decisions to internal communications.

“Five years ago, the technology department was kind of stuck in a cupboard. Now they are heroes,” he said. “In this organisation, we now have 460 out of 700 people who actually code.”

Driving such change internally has required forcing employees to take mandatory classes.

“Do people like mandatory? They hate mandatory. But if it’s not mandatory, the people who need it the most, they don’t do it,” he said.

Fake ‘Gaza influencers’ uncovered

Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, signaled in October that the company planned to roll out the feature. At the time, it appeared to be a routine anti-spam update. Once the feature went live and users began clicking the “About this account” button, however, the scope of the fraud became clear.

Users discovered a network of accounts posing as Palestinians in Gaza who claimed to be reporting under bombardment and sharing emotional personal stories. Many were not based in Gaza at all. Some accounts shut down almost immediately after their listed locations were exposed.

One account that described its owner as a witness in Rafah “living under airstrikes” was shown to be posting from Afghanistan. A supposed nurse in Khan Younis turned out to be based in Pakistan. A man claiming to be a father of six in a displacement camp was based in Bangladesh. A “poet from Deir al-Balah writing by candlelight” was located in Russia.

The revelations went far beyond a few isolated cases. Entire bot farms appeared to be operating for months. Users posing as “North Gaza survivors” were actually in Pakistan. Self-described “Rafah residents” were in Indonesia. Accounts claiming to be members of Hamas’s Nukhba unit uploaded videos from Malaysia. Even fake profiles presenting themselves as IDF soldiers — “officers,” “snipers” and “reservists” supposedly operating in Gaza — were traced to London.

Some users continued to insist they were in Gaza despite the contradiction with their displayed location. In one prominent case, a user named Moatasem Al-Daloul posted a video of himself walking through what he said were destroyed homes in the Gaza Strip. It was not immediately possible to verify whether the video was authentic or had been filmed against an artificial background. Grok, X’s built-in artificial intelligence assistant, indicated that the platform’s displayed geographic data was accurate.

A push for transparency

The new feature allows users to choose whether to show their country or a more general region, similar to an option long available on Instagram. On X, however, the information is more prominent and cannot be hidden once enabled.

According to foreign media reports, code analysts have found evidence that X is preparing another tool that would alert users when an account attempts to disguise its true location with a VPN. If implemented, it could make remaining forms of manipulation on the platform far more difficult.

The changes raise broader questions about the future of online discourse. What happens when anonymity erodes and accounts that positioned themselves as eyewitnesses to conflict are revealed to be young people around the world with no connection to the events they describe? And what does this mean for social networks and their influence on political and social narratives shaping the lives of hundreds of millions of people?

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Mercedes-Benz Group (XTRA:MBG) shares closed at €57.02, with returns over the past month showing a 7% gain. Investors watching the automaker may be weighing recent performance against longer-term growth, including an 18% total return over the past year.

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With a recent 7% 1-month share price return, Mercedes-Benz Group is showing signs of positive momentum after a steady stretch. This is supported by an 18.5% total shareholder return over the past year, suggesting that many investors see long-term growth potential building for the storied automaker.

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But with shares trading roughly 22% below estimated intrinsic value and still trailing analyst targets, investors may wonder whether the market is overlooking Mercedes-Benz Group’s potential or if future growth is already reflected in today’s price.

The latest consensus narrative points to Mercedes-Benz Group trading below its estimated fair value, with analysts expecting modest upside beyond the current price. This sets the stage for a forward-looking view shaped by emerging industry catalysts and premium segment opportunities.

Expansion into electric vehicles, digital platforms, and advanced in-car technologies is expected to support premium pricing, recurring revenues, and long-term earnings growth. Operational efficiency, supply chain optimization, and sustainability initiatives aim to strengthen cost resilience, net margins, and adaptability to shifting industry dynamics.

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Perhaps nobody embodies artificial intelligence mania quite like Jensen Huang, the chief executive of chip behemoth Nvidia, which has seen its value spike 300% in the last two years.

A frothy time for Huang, to be sure, which makes it all the more understandable why his first statement to investors on a recent earnings call was an attempt to deflate bubble fears.

“There’s been a lot of talk about an AI bubble,” he told shareholders. “From our vantage point, we see something very different.”

Take in the AI bubble discourse and something becomes clear: Those who have the most to gain from artificial intelligence spending never slowing are proclaiming that critics who fret about an over-hyped investment frenzy have it all wrong.

“I don’t think this is the beginning of a bust cycle,” White House AI czar and venture capitalist David Sacks said on his podcast All-In. “I think that we’re in a boom. We’re in an investment super-cycle.”

“The idea that we’re going to have a demand problem five years from now, to me, seems quite absurd,” said prominent Silicon Valley investor Ben Horowitz, adding: “if you look at demand and supply and what’s going on and multiples against growth, it doesn’t look like a bubble at all to me.”

Appearing on CNBC, JPMorgan Chase executive Mary Callahan Erdoes said calling the amount of money rushing into AI right now a bubble is “a crazy concept,” declaring that “we are on the precipice of a major, major revolution in a way that companies operate.”

Yet a look under the hood of what’s really going on right now in the AI industry is enough to deliver serious doubt, said Paul Kedrosky, a venture capitalist who is now a research fellow at MIT’s Institute for the Digital Economy.

He said there is a startling amount of capital pouring into a “revolution” that remains mostly speculative.

“The technology is very useful, but the pace at which it is improving has more or less ground to a halt,” Kedrosky said. “So the notion that the revolution continues with the same drum beat playing for the next five years is sadly mistaken.”

The huge infusion of cash

The gusher of money is rushing in at a rate that is stunning to financial experts.

Take OpenAI, the ChatGPT maker that set off the AI race in late 2022. Its CEO Sam Altman has said the company is making $20 billion in revenue a year, and it plans to spend $1.4 trillion on data centers over the next eight years. That growth, of course, would rely on ever-ballooning sales from more and more people and businesses purchasing its AI services.

There is reason to be skeptical. A growing body of research indicates most firms are not seeing chatbots affect their bottom lines, and just 3% of people pay for AI, according to one analysis.

“These models are being hyped up, and we’re investing more than we should,” said Daron Acemoglu, an economist at MIT, who was awarded the 2024 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

“I have no doubt that there will be AI technologies that will come out in the next ten years that will add real value and add to productivity, but much of what we hear from the industry now is exaggeration,” he said.

Nonetheless, Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft are set to collectively sink around $400 billion on AI this year, mostly for funding data centers. Some of the companies are set to devote about 50% of their current cash flow to data center construction.

Or to put it another way: every iPhone user on earth would have to pay more than $250 to pay for that amount of spending. “That’s not going to happen,” Kedrosky said.

To avoid burning up too much of its cash on hand, big Silicon Valley companies, like Meta and Oracle, are tapping private equity and debt to finance the industry’s data center building spree.

Paving the AI future with debt and other risky financing

One assessment, from Goldman Sachs analysts, found that hyperscaler companies — tech firms that have massive cloud and computing capacities — have taken on $121 billion in debt over the past year, a more than 300% uptick from the industry’s typical debt load.

Analyst Gil Luria of the D.A. Davidson investment firm, who has been tracking Big Tech’s data center boom, said some of the financial maneuvers Silicon Valley is making are structured to keep the appearance of debt off of balance sheets, using what’s known as “special purpose vehicles.”

The tech firm makes an investment in the data center, outside investors put up most of the cash, then the special purpose vehicle borrows money to buy the chips that are inside the data centers. The tech company gets the benefit of the increased computing capacity but it doesn’t weigh down the company’s balance sheet with debt.

For example, a special purpose vehicle was recently funded by Wall Street firm Blue Owl Capital and Meta for a data center in Louisiana.

The design of the deal is complicated but it goes something like this: Blue Owl took out a loan for $27 billion for the data center. That debt is backed up by Meta’s payments for leasing the facility. Meta essentially has a mortgage on the data center. Meta owns 20% of the entity but gets all of the computing power the data center generates. Because of the financial structure of the deal, the $27 billion loan never shows up on Meta’s balance sheet. If the AI bubble bursts and the data center goes dark, Meta will be on the hook to make a multi-billion-dollar payment to Blue Owl for the value of the data center.

Such financial arrangements, according to Luria, have something of a checkered past.

“The term special purpose vehicle came to consciousness about 25 years ago with a little company called Enron,” said Luria, referring to the energy company that collapsed in 2001. “What’s different now is companies are not hiding it. But having said that, it’s not something we should be leaning on to build our future.”

Enormous spending hinging on returns that could be a fantasy

Silicon Valley is taking on all this new debt with the assumption that massive new revenues from AI will cover the tab. But again, there is reason for doubt.

Morgan Stanley analysts estimate that Big Tech companies will dish out about $3 trillion on AI infrastructure through 2028, with their own cash flows covering only half of that.

“If the market for artificial intelligence were even to steady in its growth, pretty quickly we will have over-built capacity, and the debt will be worthless, and the financial institutions will lose money,” Luria said.

Twenty-five years ago, the original dot-com bubble burst after, among other factors, debt financing built out fiber-optic cables for a future that had not yet arrived, said Luria, a lesson, it appears, tech companies are not worried about repeating.

“If we get to the point after spending hundreds of billions of dollars on data centers that we don’t need a few years from now, then we’re talking about another financial crisis,” he said.

Circular deals raise even more concern

Another aspect of the over-heated AI landscape that is raising eyebrows is the circular nature of investments.

Take a recent $100 billion deal between Nvidia and OpenAI.

Nvidia will pump that amount into OpenAI to bankroll data centers. OpenAI will then fill those facilities with Nvidia’s chips. Some analysts say this structure, where Nvidia is essentially subsidizing one of its biggest customers, artificially inflates actual demand for AI.

“The idea is I’m Nvidia and I want OpenAI to buy more of my chips, so I give them money to do it,” Kedrosky said. “It’s fairly common at a small scale, but it’s unusual to see it in the tens and hundreds of billions of dollars,” noting that the last time it was prevalent was during the dot-com bubble.

Lesser-known companies are getting in on the action, too.

CoreWeave, once a crypto mining startup, pivoted to data center building to ride the AI boom. Major AI companies are turning to CoreWeave to train and run their AI models.

OpenAI has entered deals with CoreWeave worth tens of billions of dollars in which CoreWeave’s chip capacity in data centers is rented out to OpenAI in exchange for stock in CoreWeave, and OpenAI, in turn, could use that stock to pay its CoreWeave renting fees.

Nvidia, meanwhile, which also owns part of CoreWeave, has a deal guaranteeing that Nvidia will gobble up any unused data center capacity through 2032.

“The danger,” said the MIT economist Acemoglu,”is that these kinds of deals eventually reveal a house of cards.”

Some high profile investors see bubble-popping on the horizon

Some influential investors are showing signs of bubble jitters.

Tech billionaire Peter Thiel sold off his entire stake in Nvidia worth around $100 million earlier this month. That came after SoftBank sold a nearly $6 billion stake in Nvidia.

And in recent weeks, AI bubble pessimists have rallied around Michael Burry, the hedge-fund investor who made hundreds of millions of dollars betting against the housing market in 2008. He was the subject of the 2015 film The Big Short. Since then, though, he’s had a mixed reputation for market predictions, having warned about imminent collapses that never came to pass.

For what it’s worth, Burry is now betting against Nvidia, accusing the AI industry of hiding behind a bunch of fancy accounting tricks. He’s homed in the circular deals between companies.

“True end demand is ridiculously small. Almost all customers are funded by their dealers,” Burry wrote on X. He later wrote: “OpenAI is the linchpin here. Can anyone name their auditor?”

As tech companies sink billions into data centers, some executives themselves are freely admitting there looks to be some over exuberance.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told reporters in August: “Are we in a phase where investors as a whole are overexcited about AI? My opinion is yes. Is AI the most important thing to happen in a very long time? My opinion is also yes.”

And Google chief executive Sundar Pichai told the BBC recently that “there are elements of irrationality” in the AI market right now.

Asked how Google would fare if the bubble burst, Pichai responded: “I think no company is going to be immune, including us.”

Investors who take an interest in Bridgepoint Group plc (LON:BPT) should definitely note that the Independent Non-Executive Director, Cyrus Russi Taraporevala, recently paid UK£2.84 per share to buy UK£284k worth of the stock. That certainly has us anticipating the best, especially since they thusly increased their own holding by 100%, potentially signalling some real optimism.

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Notably, that recent purchase by Cyrus Russi Taraporevala is the biggest insider purchase of Bridgepoint Group shares that we’ve seen in the last year. That means that an insider was happy to buy shares at above the current price of UK£2.72. Their view may have changed since then, but at least it shows they felt optimistic at the time. To us, it’s very important to consider the price insiders pay for shares. Generally speaking, it catches our eye when an insider has purchased shares at above current prices, as it suggests they believed the shares were worth buying, even at a higher price. The only individual insider to buy over the last year was Cyrus Russi Taraporevala.

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Another way to test the alignment between the leaders of a company and other shareholders is to look at how many shares they own. Usually, the higher the insider ownership, the more likely it is that insiders will be incentivised to build the company for the long term. Based on our data, Bridgepoint Group insiders have about 0.1% of the stock, worth approximately UK£2.3m. We do note, however, it is possible insiders have an indirect interest through a private company or other corporate structure. We prefer to see high levels of insider ownership.

It is good to see the recent insider purchase. And the longer term insider transactions also give us confidence. While the overall levels of insider ownership are below what we’d like to see, the history of transactions imply that Bridgepoint Group insiders are reasonably well aligned, and optimistic for the future. So these insider transactions can help us build a thesis about the stock, but it’s also worthwhile knowing the risks facing this company. Our analysis shows 3 warning signs for Bridgepoint Group (1 is significant!) and we strongly recommend you look at these before investing.

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Oceaneering International (OII) has caught some attention lately as its stock edged higher, gaining about 3% in the latest session. This uptick comes even as the broader energy sector presented mixed signals for investors.

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Oceaneering International’s recent share price gain builds on a gradually improving short-term trend, but momentum is still muted compared to last year’s performance. While the stock is up 3.29% in the last session, the one-year total shareholder return sits at -19.58%. This reminds investors of some lingering caution, even after impressive multi-year gains.

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With shares staging a modest rebound, the question now is whether Oceaneering International remains undervalued with more upside ahead, or if investors have already factored in future growth prospects at current levels.

At $24.15 per share, Oceaneering International trades just above the consensus narrative fair value of $22.38, suggesting that the market anticipates robust operational progress and stable growth prospects.

The company’s high dependency on cyclical offshore oil and gas spending, evident in bookings and utilization guidance, makes its revenues and earnings vulnerable to potential sharp downturns if energy prices fall or if capital expenditure plans of major clients decline, as indicated by flat book-to-bill ratios and conservative utilization outlooks.

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However, continued growth in aerospace and defense contracts, or persistent strength in high-margin robotics, could boost earnings beyond current expectations.

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While the market sees Oceaneering International as slightly overvalued based on analyst price targets, our DCF model presents a very different story. The SWS DCF model estimates fair value at $51.12, which is more than double the current share price. This suggests considerable undervaluation. Could analysts be overlooking hidden future cash flows?

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