Merryn Talks Money

← Merryn Talks Money21 aug · 24 min

Markets Wrap: Higher Yields, Higher Gold

Markets Wrap: Higher Yields, Higher Gold21 aug24 min

Hosts Merryn Somerset Webb and John Stepek are both back from their holidays and this week unpack the surge in global bond yields and how governments might respond. They also look at a study which suggested that Small Language Models (SLM) could make today’s vast AI data-centre buildout unnecessary, posing a substantial risk to hyperscalers and investors.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07885

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