Chinese tech giants including Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent are testing new computer chips for artificial intelligence (AI) after the U.S. has cut off supplies last month of market-leading chips by U.S. producer Nvidia. The companies have about enough Nvidia processors to last through this year, people familiar told the Financial Times. After that, they will......
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SPECIAL REPORT: TRUMP’S TARIFFS, THE UPS AND DOWNS, FOR BETTER AND FOR WORSE
PUBLISHER’S NOTE: As we have been saying, remember the old saying goes, “You can’t make this shit up.” Another week, and another week of on-again, off-again Trump tariff demands. And now, the word on The Street is that Donald Trump is a TACO—"Trump Always Chickens Out” when it comes to tariffs and him saying what......
SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTING BIGGER
AT&T is buying Louisiana-based Lumen Technologies’ fiber optic network for $5.75 billion in cash, the companies announced last week.
SPOTLIGHT: TARNISH ON THE LUXURY INDUSTRY
Miffed at Europe’s inability to reach a trade agreement, last week Donald Trump floated the idea of a new 50-percent tariff on all products from Europe.
SPOTLIGHT: CRISIS IN THE BOND MARKET
The results of Japan’s 20 May ¥1-trillion bond auction was “dismal,” according to the Financial Times, with so few takers that the yield on long-dated bonds climbed to record heights.
SPECIAL REPORT: TRUMP’S TARIFFS, THE UPS AND DOWNS, FOR BETTER AND FOR WORSE
Major asset managers are thinning their holdings of U.S. treasury bonds and notes and deploying more funds into a wider range of choices in other countries, the Financial Times reported.
SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTING BIGGER
Charter Communications, which operates the Spectrum brand of digital telecommunications services, has agreed to pay $34.5 billion to merge with Cox Communications.
SHIPPERS, PORTS BRACE FOR 90-DAY RUSH AS TRUMP CUTS CHINA TARIFF
Ports and ocean freight carriers are bracing for a wave of rushed business after Donald Trump temporarily cut China’s tariff rate from 145 percent to 30 percent for 90 days.
SPOTLIGHT: THE SHRINKING LUXURY INDUSTRY
Burberry, purveyor of $390 tank tops and $2,000 handbags, lost £3 million in the fiscal year ending 29 March, compared to a £418-million profit the year before.
U.K. NOW OWNS MORE U.S. TREASURY SECURITIES THAN CHINA
In March, China continued reducing its portfolio of U.S. treasury securities, dropping it behind the U.K. as the largest foreign owner of U.S. debt.