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U.S. export licenses have been granted to roughly 10 Chinese firms and several distributors to acquire Nvidia's H200 AI accelerators, including Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, JD.com, Lenovo and Foxconn, but no shipments have taken place. The approvals come as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang travels to China after joining a White House delegation, yet sales r…
Elon Musk arrives in China amid contrasting reactions: celebrated for his technology leadership and criticized for service missteps and satellite dominance. Tesla remains influential in the Chinese market, but rising domestic competition, regulatory scrutiny over data and satellites, and potential export controls create a complex environment for hi…
BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) has formed an infrastructure investment partnership with Singapore state investor Temasek, Abu Dhabi’s new wealth fund L'IMAD and state oil company ADNOC to pursue up to $30 billion in investments. The vehicle will combine equity and debt capital to target greenfield and brownfield assets across ener…
Chinese leader Xi Jinping told U.S. President Donald Trump that disputes over Taiwan risk pushing relations into dangerous territory and described "Taiwan independence" as incompatible with cross-strait peace. This article unpacks the historical background, the formal names and claims involved, the positions of Beijing, Taipei and Washington, and w…
Asian currencies were largely rangebound as markets focused on a high-profile meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping. The onshore Chinese yuan strengthened to its lowest USD/CNY level since February 2023, while the Indian rupee fell to a fresh record low, pressured by higher crude prices and foreign outflows. S…
Investors are positioning for a period of elevated U.S. Treasury yields as rising oil prices linked to a protracted Middle East conflict push inflation expectations higher. Long-term yields, including the 10-year, have jumped, increasing borrowing costs across mortgages, corporate debt and leveraged loans. Market participants warn that incoming Fed…
Bank of Japan board member Kazuyuki Masu said the central bank should move to raise interest rates as soon as possible provided there are no clear signs of an economic slowdown. Though he voted to keep rates unchanged at the April meeting, Masu warned that energy and chemical price rises linked to the Iran war could feed into persistent inflation a…
Honda Motor reported its first annual loss as a listed company in nearly seven decades, driven by U.S. tariffs and more than $9 billion in charges tied to restructuring its electric-vehicle operations. The automaker recorded an operating loss of 414.3 billion yen for the year ended March and logged total EV-related losses of 1.45 trillion yen, whil…
China’s yuan rose to its strongest level in over three years against the dollar after the central bank raised its official guidance rate, while major Chinese equity indexes fell as markets awaited the outcome of a high-profile summit between the leaders of China and the United States. Policymakers appear focused on signaling stability rather than i…
Global markets remain driven by a record-setting rally focused on artificial intelligence, even as investors contend with persistent inflation risks, oil trading above $100 a barrel and stalled efforts to end the Iran war. A high-profile summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and China’s Xi Jinping in Beijing has so far produced few specifics, …
SoftBank reported an unexpectedly large net profit for the quarter ended March 31, driven largely by gains in its OpenAI stake, but the stock fell amid investor unease about the company’s rising financial exposure to the startup and the debt taken on to support the investment. Credit-watch actions and questions about OpenAI’s metrics and spending c…
Chinese customs records indicate that export licences for hundreds of U.S. beef processing plants have been reinstated, including facilities owned by Tyson Foods and Cargill. The renewals come after more than 400 plants lost export eligibility over the past year when permissions granted between March 2020 and April 2021 lapsed. U.S. beef exports to…
Samsung Electronics has asked its South Korean labour union to return to pay negotiations after prior government-mediated talks broke down, according to a union leader citing a company letter. The national Labour Commission has urged both parties to meet again on Saturday to try to head off a planned 18-day strike starting May 21. The dispute cente…
Human Rights Watch says M23 rebels and elements of the Rwandan army carried out killings, rapes and abductions while occupying the city of Uvira in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo for roughly a month spanning late 2025 and early 2026. The organization documented dozens of summary executions, multiple rapes and enforced disappearances during th…
U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping called publicly for improved relations as a high-profile summit opened in Beijing. Both leaders offered conciliatory language ahead of detailed negotiations on technology controls, Taiwan, and regional security issues that have affected energy flows.
U.S. President Donald Trump arrives in Beijing with the Iran war at the center of talks with President Xi Jinping. Diplomatic channels have made little headway since a fragile ceasefire took effect more than a month ago, and Washington is pressing China - a close partner of Tehran and a major buyer of Iranian oil - to use its influence to curb Iran…
Alibaba's Hong Kong-listed shares climbed sharply after the company reported March-quarter revenue growth driven by cloud intelligence and AI-related products. Net income more than doubled, aided by equity investment gains and improved cloud performance, while management said AI investments have moved to large-scale commercialization.
Asian equities posted modest gains, supported by strength in semiconductor and technology names, as attention turned to a high-level U.S.-China summit in Beijing. Mainland Chinese benchmarks slipped from recent peaks amid profit-taking ahead of the meeting, while investors monitored oil-driven inflation risks from the Iran war and mixed corporate e…
Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM) reported record profitability and has raised dividends twice this year as precious metals prices have surged. The streaming model provides low incremental cost exposure to rising metal prices, while technicals show constructive momentum. I recommend a long position with an entry at $142.30, a stop at $134.00 and a prim…
Leaders of three major U.S. public pension systems have formally objected to the governance framework SpaceX plans to adopt in its proposed initial public offering, arguing the arrangement would vest extraordinary control in founder Elon Musk and deny long-term investors basic protections. The officials asked for concrete changes and requested a me…
Microsoft ($MSFT) is a table-pounding buy here. The business sits at the center of the AI infrastructure wave (Azure + exclusive OpenAI licensing), generates huge free cash flow ($72.9B last reported), and trades at a reasonable P/E (~24x) relative to durable growth and margin profile. This trade plan buys $405.08 with a $365 stop and a $500 target…
A Federal Court has determined that Coles Supermarkets misrepresented discounts in its long-running 'Down Down' campaign, finding 13 of 14 promotional tickets examined to be false or misleading. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission brought the case, alleging temporary price hikes on hundreds of products before discounting. Coles share…
Eight Directions Technology Limited, a provider of premium customized disposable products, has entered into a definitive merger agreement with Quartzsea Acquisition Corporation, a Nasdaq-listed special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). The transaction values Eight Directions at approximately $515 million in pre-money equity value and will result …
TSMC projects the global semiconductor market will top $1.5 trillion by 2030, lifting its earlier $1 trillion estimate. The firm expects AI and high-performance computing to comprise the majority of market value, and outlined substantial capacity and packaging build-outs across Taiwan, the United States, Japan, and Germany to satisfy rapidly growin…
Propanc Biopharma, a biopharmaceutical company developing novel cancer treatments, has approved a 1-for-25 reverse stock split effective May 18, 2026, aimed at restoring compliance with Nasdaq's $1.00 minimum bid price requirement and supporting its clinical development progress. The reverse split will reduce the number of outstanding shares while …
