The market is underestimating the risks of hard-to-predict extreme events that could bring down quotations in the IT sector, economist Nassim Taleb said

Black Swan author predicts mass bankruptcies in the software sector

Blue Owl Capital Inc.

Ares Management Corporation

Blackstone Inc.

Apollo Global Management, Inc.

Restrictions on withdrawals from one of the Blue Owl funds have exposed possible risks of a bubble forming in the private lending market, analysts said

"The canary in the mine" for the fintech sector: what the Blue Owl money lockup means for the marketplace

Hedge funds have sharply ramped up their selloff in global stocks, according to data from Goldman Sachs Bank's Prime Services Desk unit <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-23/hedge-funds-sold-most-global-equities-since-april-goldman-says">cited </a>by Bloomberg. Net selling in the week ended Feb. 19 reached the fastest pace since April 2025, when U.S. President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/modifying-reciprocal-tariff-rates-to-reflect-trading-partner-retaliation-and-alignment/">announced</a> new duties and triggered a stock market crash.

Hedge funds accelerated the selloff to the highest since April 2025. Which stocks escaped the selloff

Domino's Pizza, Inc.

Papa John's International, Inc.

Yum! Brands, Inc.

The company admits it could double its market share amid problems for its two biggest rivals

Domino's Pizza surprised the market thanks to its bet on a budget menu. Shares rose

International Business Machines Corporation

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.

Microsoft Corporation

Walmart Inc.

One of the blows to the market came from a Citrini Research report claiming that the AI boom could unleash unemployment as high as 10%

A new wave of soft-apocalypse and fears over duties: US indices lost more than 1%

Shares of systems integrator International Business Machines (IBM) plunged more than 13% in trading Monday, falling below the $223 mark. Investors began selling the company's securities after AI startup Anthropic <a href="https://claude.com/blog/how-ai-helps-break-cost-barrier-cobol-modernization">announced</a> that its Claude Code model now supports Common Business-Oriented Language (COBOL) programming.

IBM shares crash 13%: Anthropic's AI has mastered ATM 'language'

PayPal Holdings, Inc.

Fintech company PayPal Holdings has attracted interest from potential buyers after its capitalization nearly halved, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-23/paypal-attracts-takeover-interest-after-stock-slump">sources</a> told Bloomberg.

Bloomberg revealed the takeover bidders for the slumping PayPal. Shares soared

Morgan Stanley strategists expect that the Swiss franc may strengthen by 17% against the dollar - it will be supported by growing investor confidence in the status of this currency as a protective asset amid uncertainty in U.S. economic policy, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-23/gold-like-swiss-franc-may-surge-17-morgan-stanley-s-adams-says?embedded-checkout=true">writes</a> Bloomberg. In the bank's "bearish scenario" the rate could reach an all-time high of 0.64 Swiss francs per dollar against about 0.777 <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/CHF=">on February 23</a>.

"The most gold-like currency": Morgan Stanley expects franc to rise 17% against the dollar

Capgemini SE

Accenture plc

The company has engaged consulting agencies to implement its new product in the work of corporate clients

IPO-ready OpenAI has found a way to strengthen itself in the corporate marketplace

Novo Nordisk A/S

Eli Lilly and Company

A key objective of the trial was to confirm that Novo was as effective as a competitor's product, Eli Lilly

Novo's failure to test a weight loss drug has sparked a sell-off in the Danish market

Amazon.com, Inc.

Tesla, Inc.

KKR & Co. Inc.

NVIDIA Corporation

"You can't bet against Trump, if he wants to impose duties, he'll find a way to do it," the analyst believes

US stocks decline amid Trump's 'confusion' over duties

The European Union has warned of its readiness to freeze the ratification process of the trade agreement with the United States and asked the administration of US President Donald Trump for further clarification on America's new duty policy, Bloomberg <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-23/eu-set-to-freeze-us-trade-deal-approval-over-trump-tariff-risk">writes</a>.