Jan-Patrick Barnert

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  • HANGZHOU, CHINA – JANUARY 25, 2025 – The logo of Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek is seen in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, January 26, 2025. (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)Finance

    DeepSeek buzz puts tech stocks on track for $1 trillion wipeout

    By Abhishek Vishnoi, Winnie Hsu, and others
  • Almuth Steinkuhler, chief financial officer of Schott Pharma AG, rings the ceremonial opening bell at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, during the company’s initial public offering (IPO) in Frankfurt, Germany, on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023. Schott Pharma AG shares surged on their first day of trading after the drug-industry supplier raised 813 million ($854 million) in an initial public offering, the biggest in Germany this year. Photographer: Alex Kraus/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    Defying the slump: Germany’s stocks are surging, even as its economy falters

    By Jan-Patrick Barnert, Michael Msika, and others
  • man looks at an electronic board displaying stock pricesFinance

    14 of the world’s 20 biggest stock markets have hit record highs, with U.S. equities riding a $12 trillion rally

    By Jan-Patrick Barnert, Alexandra Semenova, and others
  • NYSE traderFinance

    ‘What we’re seeing is an investor bank run’: Wall Street shaken by wave of trading halts as record drops rock regional lenders

    By Allegra Catelli, Jan-Patrick Barnert, and others
  • A First Republic Bank branch in Los Angeles, California, US, on Friday, March 10, 2023. First Republic Bank and PacWest Bancorp both plunged Friday as the upheaval at SVB Financial Group spread to other lenders. Photographer: Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    U.S. regional banks First Republic and PacWest plunge as Silicon Valley Bank collapse fallout spreads

    By Allegra Catelli, Jan-Patrick Barnert, and others
  • UNITED STATES – JANUARY 24: Traders are seen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2007. As the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index rose to its highest in more than six years after better-than-estimated earnings, the NYSE today finalized its transition to automated trading with its Hybrid Market, which has allowed investors to execute transactions more quickly and spurred job cuts at the Big Board. Bloomberg Photo: Adam Rountree (Photo by Adam Rountree/Bloomberg via Getty Images)Finance

    This year’s global stock market rout cost investors $18 trillion—here’s what worries experts for 2023

    By Jan-Patrick Barnert and Bloomberg
  • LONDON, ENGLAND – MARCH 30: The Credit Suisse building in Canary Wharf on March 30, 2021 in London, England. A number of banks, including Credit Suisse and Nomura, have warned of significant losses to their Q1 results due to the collapse of a large US hedge fund. Credit Suisse shares fell nearly 14% and Nomura by over 16% on Monday at the news. Nomura reported a potential $2 billion loss as the US investment fund reported to be Archegos Capital Management run by billionaire Bill Hwang, was forced to liquidate more than $20 billion of assets after it defaulted on margin calls last week. (Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images)Finance

    Banks on the wrong side of the Archegos meltdown could lose up to $10 billion: JPMorgan

    By Jan-Patrick Barnert, Marion Halftermeyer, and others
  • Markus Braun, the former chief executive of disgraced payments giant Wirecard, faces a public grilling by German lawmakers over the massive accounting fraud that brought down his firm, on November 19, 2020 in Berlin. – Wirecard collapsed in June 2020 after it was forced to admit 1.9 billion euros ($2.2 billion) missing from its accounts did not exist, and MPs have opened a full parliamentary inquiry into possible regulatory failings that allowed the cheating to go unnoticed for years. (Photo by FABRIZIO BENSCH / POOL / AFP) (Photo by FABRIZIO BENSCH/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)Finance

    Reeling from the Wirecard scandal, Germany’s DAX is getting its largest overhaul ever

    By Jan-Patrick Barnert and Bloomberg
  • A sign stands outside the Wirecard AG headquarters in the Aschheim district of Munich, Germany. Shares in the once high-flying German fintech tanked for a second straight day as a mysterious $2.1 billion hole in its finances has emerged.International

    A ‘rogue employee,’ forged signatures: investors bail on Wirecard as the case of the missing billions intensifies

    By Clarissa Batino, Jan-Patrick Barnert, and others