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China's biggest holiday, the Lunar New Year, is here, and big holidays mean a lot of spending. In 2023, the latest data available, Chinese consumers spent more than $140 billion on travel, retail gifts and more. And luxury brands desperate for growth this year want a piece of that pie.Every year in the Chinese calendar is represented by one of 12 zodiac animals. 2026 is the year of the horse. The 15-day celebration will act as a test of Chinese consumers' willingness to spend.After years of economic slowdow ...

The Lunar New Year is a big spending holiday in China, and luxury brands are using the festival to connect with customers through capsule collections, marketing campaigns and immersive experiences in hopes of boosting sales. Chinese luxury consumers have become more reserved and discerning with their money. Wealth Reporter Hayley Cuccinello explains. ...

Open AAI is unveiling its first model to run entirely on chips from the startup Cerebras. It's a sign of companies diversifying beyond Nvidia's GPUs. Dear Jabosa has more in today's tech check.Very important story here. Deerra. Yeah.So, Kelly, this look, this is not OpenAI's flagship model. This is GPT 5.3% Codex Spark. It's a stripped down coding model built for speed.But an AI speed and cost that can beat raw power. And if the high volume everyday workloads, if they're moving off of Nvidia hardware, that ...

We knew what it could do, but the rate and pace at which it's coming on every aspect of the business, whether it's operational, strategic, societal, it's coming like a freight train. >> AT&T chairman and CEO John Stany at the Pebble Beach ProAm with Joe Kernan. In between rounds on the California Golf Course, Stany explains how he's building out the infrastructure of the internet.Spoiler, it's fiber optics. >> I don't think universally you're going to ever beat fiber in many places. And I think what's somet ...

AI now unveiling its first model to run entirely on chips from the startup Cabus. It's a sign a company's diversifying beyond Nvidia GPUs. Our Dur Debosa has more on that in today's tech check.Morning D. >> Hey, good morning Carl. So never mind that OpenAI is one of Nvidia's largest customers.This is also part of a larger trend. Google shipped Gemini 3 in December trained and served on its own custom AI chips TPUs. Then you got Chinese AI lab GPU releasing GLM trained on Huawei chips and we know that others ...

Joining us here at Post9 this morning with his take is Lazard Asset Management CIO Eric Vonstren. Eric also served as assistant Treasury Secretary for economic policy under the Biden White House. Welcome, Eric.It's good to see you. >> Good to be with you, Carl. >> Um, so David's been and remains pretty constructive on this notion of a reaceleration.Are you with him. Well, I think we're seeing a lot of upside in the aggregate numbers, but I think the important thing to recognize is that the US economy, its g ...

Airbnb shares are taking off after the company beat on Q4 revenue and posted solid earnings guidance for 2026. Though it did miss earnings estimates, our Sarah Eisen spoke last night with Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesy in an exclusive interview. >> We outperformed our forecast.We believe that nearly all the outperformance was from innovations. Um hard to, you know, it's always hard to attribute exactly. Um but we think that the vast majority of the outperformance is from innovations and that's why we ...

Welcome back to Squawkbox. We are waiting for the delayed CPI and it is just crossing and an upside surprise here or a downside surprise year-over-year at 2.4% had been expected at 2.5%. Um and I think one of the reasons is this rent of owner's equivalent rent coming in at a relatively low 0.2%.Energy down 1 and a.5% gasoline down 3.2% new vehicle sales up 02. I am looking for the core number. CPI year-over-year 24.X Ford Energy that came in at consensus plus 2.5%. And real earnings were pretty good up 0.5% ...