The strongest earnings environment in 25 years is extending beyond AI leaders, with broad profit growth suggesting AI is lifting productivity across corporate America.
Europe’s defense spending surge appears set to endure, but uneven national priorities and coordination challenges will slow its path to greater military strength and strategic autonomy.
Compliance teams face broader risks as national security, technology and geopolitical concerns reshape trade, investment and procurement restrictions, creating new exposure across transactions, supply chains and global business decisions.
At the 2026 Fixed Income Leaders’ Summit in Boston, Blair Hurn, Product Manager for Fixed Income Execution Management at Bloomberg, joined Trader TV to discuss how the industry is modernizing primary market workflows.
As companies stay private longer and enter public markets at much larger valuations, benchmark indices face growing pressure to capture market-changing IPOs more quickly.