[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Gold Climbs to Record on US-China Tensions and Fed Rate-Cut Bets
[CNBC] S&P 500 rises for a second day, boosted by the AI trade and solid earnings: Live updates
[AP] US is working on doubling aid to Argentina to $40 billion by tapping private funding sources
[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Bessent Says US Expects Japan to Stop Russian Energy Imports
[Axios] CEOs grow more apprehensive as tariff uncertainty weighs
[Axios] AI industry’s exponential faith throws a curve
[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Global CEOs Meet Chinese Trade Negotiator as Tensions Linger
[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Potentially ‘Catastrophic’ Breach of Cyber Firm Blamed on China
[Yahoo/Telegraph] The endless IOU powering Silicon Valley’s AI boom
[AP] Embattled French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu survives no-confidence votes in Parliament
[Politico] Ukraine plan to ‘go offensive’ on agenda of Trump-Zelenskyy meeting
[Bloomberg] Bessent Calls China Trade Negotiator An ‘Unhinged’ Wolf Warrior
[Bloomberg] Why Trump Is Eying Cooking Oil as Leverage in US-China Trade War
[Bloomberg] Fed’s Waller Calls for Careful Cuts, Miran Wants Bigger Move
[Bloomberg] BOJ’s Most Hawkish Member Calls for Rate Hike Amid Price Risks
[Bloomberg] Takaichi’s Hopes of Becoming Japan PM Boosted by Ishin Talks
[Bloomberg] Ukraine Claims Russia Refinery Strike as Pressure on Putin Grows
[NYT] Who Will Blink First: Trump or Xi?
[NYT] China’s Rare Earth Restrictions Aim to Beat U.S. at Its Own Game
[WSJ] The Impossible Politics That Mean the Shutdown Is Set to Drag On
[WSJ] AI Data Centers, Desperate for Electricity, Are Building Their Own Power Plants
[WSJ] American Bankers Are Making a Mint Helping China Inc. Go Global
[WSJ] Ukraine Wants Tomahawks. Trump Has to Decide if They Would Help End the War.
[WSJ] Milei’s Radical Overhaul of Argentina Meets Its Match in the Humble Peso
[FT] Big investors scale back risky bond exposure after storming rally
[FT] ‘Of course it’s a bubble’: AI start-up valuations soar in investor frenzy
[FT] The AI bubble is a bigger global economic threat than US tariffs
[FT] How Beijing’s collateral play can rattle the creditor-borrower balance
[FT] What are the US Tomahawk missiles Trump is considering for Ukraine?
[FT] Traders at top hedge funds take home 25% of profits
[FT] FT Investigation: How the Trump companies made $1bn from crypto