Vibrant neon signs and bright street lights glowing above the busy night traffic of taxis, double decker buses and pedestrians along Nathan Road in the crowded Tsim Sha Tsui district of Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.Both U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping will speak on Friday to discuss the terms.The trade talks were overshadowed by a "framework" deal regarding the divestment of Chinese-owned TikTok, announced by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Monday. Speaking from Madrid, Bessent no ...

A new Apple mobile phone is pictured in Cupertino, California, the United States, on Sept. 9, 2025. Apple Inc. on Tuesday announced a series of new iPhones and wireless earphone products, including iPhone 17, all-new iPhone Air and AirPods Pro 3. (Photo by Wu Xiaoling/Xinhua via Getty Images)Xinhua News Agency via Getty ImagesDuring last week’s launch of the iPhone 17 Pro, Tim Cook and his team focused on the design and the style of the new iPhone family. For many, this was a return to the Apple of old. For ...

Wall Street Braces for Wednesday’s FOMC MeetingWall Street investors are currently bracing for one of the most highly anticipated, yet uncertain, Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meetings/decisions in a very long time. Several story lines make this FOMC meeting in particular interesting. First, President Trump and his administration have aggressively pressured Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell to cut interest rates for months. Meanwhile, several cross-currents exist in this unique economy, includin ...

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Bank of America warns the latest surge in Chinese equities is unlikely to replicate last year’s explosive rally, when the CSI 300 Index jumped more than 30% in just weeks on a wave of stimulus-fuelled optimism. The benchmark has risen about 12% since early August to near a three-year high, but further gains may be capped as positioning is already “quite bullish,” says Lars Naeckter, head of Asia Pacific equity-derivatives research.Info comes via a Bloomberg (gated) report. In brief:Chinese stocks outperform ...

their best days are behind them. Those may be the six most damaging words to your portfolio and hardly a day goes by when they don't hinder you from making money, >> especially when we're talking about the magnificent seven. So many people trade these great stocks rather than owning them.And then you get a day like today where the Dow inched up 49 points as advanced 47% the record high. Tech heavy heavy NASDAQ gained.94% also to a record high. Days like today remind you just how lucrative is to simply stick ...

Losing steam in recent weeks, Nvidia (NVDA)  stock has now dipped 4% from a 52-week peak of $184 a share, which it hit in early August. Monday’s report of an antitrust probe in China weighed on Nvidia stock in early morning trading, extending a slight decline over the last few weeks that stemmed from Broadcom’s (AVGO)  quarterly report showing the company is becoming a credible challenger to other dominant AI chip leaders.Amid increased demand for Broadcom’s custom XPU chips, more pressure is potentially mo ...

Last Friday, I got a chance to speak with Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, and Wend Weeks, the chairman and CEO of Corning at Corning's facility in Harrosburg, Kentucky, where they make the cover glass for your iPhone. While I was down there, we spent a lot more time with Tim Cook, getting into everything that's been going on with Apple. Take a look.>> Well, Tim, we're in downtown Harrisburg. He talked about the ripple effect. Is this it. >> This is it.It really makes my heart sing to see a town that is doing so ...

Well, Tim, we're in downtown Harrisburg. You talked about the ripple effect. Is this it. >> This is it.It really makes my heart sing to see a town that is doing so well, that's thriving off of Corning and our relationship of with Corning is at the root of that and so it feels fantastic. >> Now, there are other towns of course that didn't get blessed by uh two companies that care as much as uh as you and Corning do. The atmosphere is very different, isn't it.>> Well, we can't, you know, we can't be everywher ...

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