CNBC Daily Open: Takaichi and the AI trade in focus this week

Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), speaks during a press conference at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, on February 9, 2026.There's nearly nothing that apparently can't be deployed as a trading strategy. We have the "TACO" trade, the Fed put trade, the artificial intelligence trade and, now, capturing traders' attention is the "Takaichi trade" — fueled by Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's landslide victory in Sunday's elections. The Takaich ...