All three beat Bloomberg consensus but also posted NII declines as SORA averaged just 1.07% in Q1 (vs 2.54% a year ago). The dividing line wasn't credit quality or margins — it was wealth management execution. And on that measure, the gap between the three is wider than the headlines suggest.
Goldman Sachs raised S&P EPS forecasts to 2025: $268 (+11%) vs. 2026: $288 (+7%) and also lifted its year-end SPX target. At the same time, Goldman’s own data shows: Hedge funds have been net sellers of U.S. equities for 3 consecutive weeks Tech sector deleveraging is the largest in 10 years
$CME Bitcoin - main 2605(BTCmain)$ broke $80,000 on May 4 — its first time above that level since February 2026. $Circle Internet Corp.(CRCL)$ hit $120. Real drivers are institutional accumulation and regulatory clarity.
U.S. stocks fell Tuesday on renewed AI concerns ahead of major tech earnings. Options volume hit 53.6 million contracts (59% calls). AMD dropped 3.41%; institutional traders sold long-dated 250putsfor250putsfor3.74M, signaling long-term bullishness with a breakeven at 220.05.Oraclefell4.05220.05.Oraclefell4.05177.50 puts for $1.85M as a hedge or bearish bet, while others sold longer-dated puts to collect premium. Overall, near-term caution contrasted with medium-to-long-term neutral-to-bullish positioning.
$SPX$ hit an intraday high of 7369.22 yesterday, $IXIC$ reached 25,850.19, the Dow climbed back above 50,000, and $NVDA$ surged +5.77%, reclaiming a $5 trillion market cap.
$Intel(INTC)$ CEO Lip-Bu Tan on his call: AI is moving from foundation models to agents and inference — data center CPU demand is surging. INTC +17.6% in a single day, up +69% from its $67 low.
Shares closed +3.4% at S$58.50. Non-interest income and wealth management fees both hit all-time highs. Dividend raised to S$0.81/share from S$0.75 a year earlier. In a lower-rate world, DBS proved the model works — just not the way the market expected.
April's final session: $S&P 500(.SPX)$ closed at all-time highs (+1%), $NASDAQ(.IXIC)$ +0.89%. Full month: S&P 500 +10.4%, Nasdaq +14.8% — the strongest single-month return since the post-COVID rebound in 2020.