When market volatility compresses, as it did over the past five days, seasoned investors and traders should consider what could happen next to bring about a spike in volatility, such as unusual trading volume or options trading activity. This week’s volatile event, coming in to end the first month of 2025, comes all the way across the world from Asia’s powerhouse.
In China, a group of developers has released their own version of an artificial intelligence-driven chat system, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT. This new system, called DeepSeek, apparently has over twice the computing power at a fraction of the cost, which deeply challenges the current state of semiconductor supply and demand in today’s market.
