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16 July 2025, China, Peking: Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, speaks to journalists. During a trip to China, Huang gave a speech at the opening of the supply chain trade fair and met Chinese politicians. Photo: Johannes Neudecker/dpa (Photo by Johannes Neudecker/picture alliance via Getty Images)Picture Alliance | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesA top U.S. trade official said on Tuesday that “very few” of Nvidia’s H200 artificial intelligence chips have been shipped to China and Hong Kong.”The bottom line is very few shipments against licenses for H200s and equivalents have taken place. It’s a very small quantity of chips,” Under…
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky attends a ceremony to mark the Day of Ukrainian Statehood in Kyiv on July 15, 2026, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.Tetiana Dzhafarova | Afp | Getty ImagesUkrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov has been dismissed from his post in a surprise move as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy undertakes his fourth major government reshuffle since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion.Fedorov, who was seen as a popular figure and an advocate of Ukraine’s drone warfare, confirmed his dismissal on Wednesday in a social media post, saying it had been a “great honor to serve the Ukrainian people.” Fedorov…
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Investors should still be able to grab attractive yields in municipal bonds the rest of this year. The bonds issues by state and local governments and thousands of various borrowing authorities had a strong showing in the first half of 2026. Both investment-grade and high-yield tax-exempt munis were “clear outperformers,” with the former seeing a 2.16% total return and the latter returning 3.74% in the first half, Bank of America said in a note last week. That translates into 3.7% and 5.59% tax-adjusted total returns, respectively, the bank pointed out. Bond yields move inversely to prices, and total returns incorporate…
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Jurassic Park, while beloved as a film, has been the subject of snarky memes for the infamous line in which one of the characters declares, “This is a Unix system, I know this!” while using a computer with an unusual 3D file manager interface. Despite the memes, the film’s production team was meticulous in accurately sourcing the right PCs (and adjacent details) for the sets—not too much of a surprise, given writer Michael Crichton’s background with computing and his obsessive attention to detail in the book the film is based on. This was made clear by a little hobbyist investigation…
British Steel has been taken into public ownership in what the government said was a bid to “protect UK steelmaking”. The future of the steelworks, which employs roughly 2,700 people in Scunthorpe and supports many other industries in north Lincolnshire, has been dogged by uncertainty over recent years.”Today’s decision secures the future of steelmaking in the UK, protects skilled jobs and safeguards a vital national capability,” Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said. The UK government took control of British Steel operations in Scunthorpe last year, though it has since remained under the ownership of the Chinese firm Jingye Group.Jingye has…
Johnson & Johnson shares fell Tuesday despite a mostly strong second-quarter earnings report and an increase to its full-year guidance. We’re not rattled by the market reaction and believe the reasons to like J & J remain intact. Revenue in the second quarter rose 6.6% year over year to $25.31 billion, beating the LSEG consensus of $25.05 billion. Adjusted earnings per share (EPS) in the quarter totaled $2.90, ahead of the $2.85 estimate, LSEG data showed. Shares of J & J are off over 2% in afternoon trading. But keep in mind: Going back to the third quarter of 2021,…
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U.S.-listed shares in Chinese conglomerate Alibaba rose 4% in premarket trading on Wednesday after confirming that its Qwen AI model will be integrated into Apple systems in China. “Qwen will be integrated into Apple Intelligence experiences within iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS for users in China,” an Alibaba spokesperson told CNBC. The Cyberspace Administration of China included Apple AI services on a list of approved providers, which included products from homegrown companies like Huawei. Alibaba’s ADR shares were last seen 3.7% higher. Apple has been approached for comment. Stock Chart IconStock chart iconAlibaba’s U.S. listed shares year-to-date.It follows a long route to a…