Author: R Jemaiel

Utilities Stocks Are Now Top-Performing US Equity Sector In 2024

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Market sentiment has recently shifted to prioritize defensive equity sectors... The attitude adjustment has lifted utilities shares, which are now outperforming the rest of the field as the top-performer, based on a set of sector ETFs through Tuesday’s close (Sep... XLU’s rally this year is also comfortably above the second-best sector performer: financials (XLF), which is posting a strong 19....

Macro Briefing: 11 September 2024

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A Federal Reserve official on Tuesday announced changes to a proposed set of US banking regulations that cuts the extra capital that the largest institutions will be forced to hold... “There are benefits and costs to increasing capital requirements... 9 nowcast indicates a slowdown from Q2’s strong 3...US household income rebounded in 2023, posting the first annual increase since the pandem...

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod introduces Amazon EKS support

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Today, we are pleased to announce Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) support in Amazon SageMaker HyperPod — purpose-built infrastructure engineered with resilience at its core for foundation model (FM) development... This new capability enables customers to orchestrate HyperPod clusters using EKS, combining the power of Kubernetes with Amazon SageMaker HyperPod‘s resilient environment des...

US Core Consumer Inflation Trend Set To Hold Steady In August

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Tomorrow’s update on US consumer inflation for August isn’t expected to derail expectations that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates next week, but the disinflation trend of late looks set to stall... (Core CPI excludes food and energy prices in an effort to create a more reliable measure of the inflation trend...An unchanged reading for core CPI isn’t necessarily a sign that di...

Macro Briefing: 10 September 2024

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China exports rose sharply in August, beating expectations by a wide margin... Among the key drivers: exports of cars from China surged nearly 40% in August to 610,000 vehicles... Reuters reports: “China’s exports grew at their fastest pace in nearly 1-1/2 years in August, suggesting manufacturers are rushing out orders ahead of tariffs expected from a growing number of trade partners, while ...

Align Meta Llama 3 to human preferences with DPO, Amazon SageMaker Studio, and Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth

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Large language models (LLMs) have remarkable capabilities... In this post, we demonstrate how to use direct preference optimization (DPO), a technique that allows you to fine-tune an LLM with human preference data, together with Amazon SageMaker Studio and Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth to align the Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct model responses to your organization’s values... DPO is computationally e...

Amazon EC2 P5e instances are generally available

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To address customer needs for high performance and scalability in deep learning, generative AI, and HPC workloads, we are happy to announce the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) P5e instances, powered by NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs... Additionally, we are announcing that P5en instances, a network optimized variant of P5e instances, are coming soon... In this pos...