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In January, Google’s AlphaGo crossed a major artificial intelligence threshold by besting human grandmaster Lee Sedol at the famously complex game of Go. The win prompted a flood of news stories about whether humans will become obsolete in a world of increasingly intelligent machines that don’t just follow instructions embedded in code, but actually learn. At Credit Suisse’s 2016 Thought Leader Forum, University of Washington computer science professor Pedro Domingos addressed the state of...

A world in which borrowers get paid interest on their loans is a counterintuitive world, indeed. Watch Gene Sperling, former Director of the National Economic Council, weigh in on why central banks have resorted to the unprecedented policy of negative interest rates and the potential for competitive devaluations moving forward.  

Was the Bank of Japan’s surprise foray into negative interest rates this January truly motivated, as some have said, by a desire to weaken the yen? Watch Tomomi Inada, Chair of the Policy Research Council for Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party, discuss the central bank’s dramatic policy shift.  

Hear what Jonathan Wilmot, Credit Suisse’s Head of Macro Investments, Asset Management, had to say about Donald Trump, China’s new role in the global economy, and the outlook for oil prices at the Credit Suisse 2016 Asian Investment Conference (AIC).   For more stories and videos from the AIC, please visit the conference website.   The post Jonathan Wilmot on China, Oil, and the U.S. Elections appeared first on The Financialist.

How have weak markets and weak currencies affected consumer sentiment in emerging markets? To find out, the Credit Suisse Research Institute interviewed nearly 16,000 people in nine emerging economies. The result? Not surprisingly, CSRI generally found less optimism among survey respondents than last year, but consumer sentiment proved more resilient to economic headwinds in certain countries than in others. Watch the video to hear Richard Kersley, Head of Global Research Product, explain...

Economists and executives at Credit Suisse’s 2016 Latin America Investment Conference agreed that Brazil should make getting its fiscal house in order a top priority as a first step toward re-igniting growth. But that will require a delicate balancing act. Watch the video to hear Mansueto Almeida, a researcher at the Brazilian Institute of Applied Economics (IPEA), explain Brazil’s budget challenges.  

Chinese young people born after 1990 are happy to spend money on things their parents and older siblings would likely have considered frivolous, but they’re also much more discerning consumers than previous generations. How will Young China’s attitude toward consumption affect their buying behavior? Watch the video to hear Vincent Chan, Head of China Research at Credit Suisse, talk about the preferences of China’s all-important next generation of consumers at Credit Suisse’s 6th Annual China...