Big getting bigger, is Open AI still going to save the planet and how the retail crowd is shaped by finfluencers.
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 | The World’s Most Valuable Companies, as of Oct 2025 The world’s most valuable companies have continued to grow larger in 2025, with the tech sector’s prevalence more profound than ever. #investment READ MORE |
| OpenAI abandons the pretence. Water is wet. Grass is green. And OpenAI, the nonprofit that was going to save humanity from dangerous AI, just went for-profit. #technology READ MORE |  |
 | Digital Sentiment and the Retail Crowd: How Finfluencers Shape IPO Valuations This study investigates how finfluencer endorsements affect initial public offering (IPO) pricing through behavioural attention mechanisms. Analysing 395 Indian IPOs (2014–2024), we find that finfluencer-backed issues experience significantly higher traditional underpricing and initial returns, driven by salience, herding, and retail investor overreaction. Analyst recommendations yield more moderate effects, consistent with valuation-based anchoring. #behaviouralfinance READ MORE |
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