Desperately Seeking Yield: 24 April 2024

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The average 12-month trailing yield for the major asset classes has ticked up so far this year, based on a set of proxy ETFs through yesterday’s close (Apr... Relative to Treasury yields, however, government bonds continue to offer higher payouts...The average trailing yield for risk assets is currently 3... Once again, investors can find substantially higher yields in US government securities...

Macro Briefing: 24 April 2024

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* Fed likely to err on hawkish side of fewer rate cuts: Former Fed Vice Chair Clarida * China may face new wave of bond defaults, predicts S&P Global Ratings * Ether ETFs unlikely to receive US approval in May: Standard Charter * New US home sales surged in March despite high mortgage rates * US economic activity slows to 4-month low in April: PMI survey data:Correlation between US stocks a...

Using Amazon Verified Permissions to manage authorization for AWS IoT smart home applications

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By using Verified Permissions, you can externalize the authorization logic using Cedar policy language, enabling you to define fine-grained permissions that combine RBAC and ABAC models... We show you how to use Verified Permissions to build an authorization solution using Cedar policy language to define dynamic policy-based access controls for different user personas... Creating policy stores ...

Introducing Phi-3: Redefining what’s possible with SLMs

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We are excited to introduce Phi-3, a family of open AI models developed by Microsoft... Phi-3 models are the most capable and cost-effective small language models (SLMs) available, outperforming models of the same size and next size up across a variety of language, reasoning, coding, and math benchmarks... This release expands the selection of high-quality models for customers, offering more pract...

Accelerate ML workflows with Amazon SageMaker Studio Local Mode and Docker support

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We are excited to announce two new capabilities in Amazon SageMaker Studio that will accelerate iterative development for machine learning (ML) practitioners: Local Mode and Docker support... With Local Mode, developers can now train and test models, debug code, and validate end-to-end pipelines directly on their SageMaker Studio notebook instance without the need for spinning up remote compute r...

Significant new capabilities make it easier to use Amazon Bedrock to build and scale generative AI applications – and achieve impressive results

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We introduced Amazon Bedrock to the world a little over a year ago, delivering an entirely new way to build generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications... With the broadest selection of first- and third-party foundation models (FMs) as well as user-friendly capabilities, Amazon Bedrock is the fastest and easiest way to build and scale secure generative AI applications... Now tens of thous...

US Q1 GDP Growth Looks Set For Slowdown In Thursday’s Release

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The US economy appears on track to post softer growth in the first-quarter GDP report scheduled for release on Thursday (Apr...The economy rose 3... Despite another round of softer growth, most estimates for the upcoming Q1 report — the initial estimate from the Bureau of Economic Analysis — indicate that the economy will continue to expand at a healthy pace that minimizes recession risk... ...