The United States will make an announcement this week on Japan’s $550 billion investment in the U.S., Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said. Simon2579 | Digitalvision Vectors | Getty ImagesThe United States will make an announcement this week on Japan’s $550 billion investment in the U.S., Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said, as a top Japanese trade envoy was reportedly planning to visit Washington to formalize the package.”The Japanese agreement, which we’re going to announce later this week, that’s $550 billion at the hand of Donald Trump,” Lutnick told the Ingraham Angle show on Fox News on Monday night.The Japanese funds could be used for the manufacturing of products such as semiconductors, antibiotics or rare earths in…
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WASHINGTON, DC – AUGUST 25: U.S. President Donald Trump (R) and South Korean President Lee Jae-myung talk to reporters before an Oval Office meeting at the White House on August 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. During Lee’s first official visit to the White House, the two leaders are set to discuss trade and military cooperation to counter North Korea and China, South Korea’s top trade partner. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesThe U.S. and South Korea announced a series of agreements Monday in Washington, including multibillion-dollar investments, record $50 billion aviation purchases by…
US President Donald Trump during a meeting with Lee Jae Myung, South Korea’s president, not pictured, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Aug. 25, 2025. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday stateside warned of steeper tariffs on China if exports of rare-earth magnets were curbed, threatening a precarious trade truce between the world’s two largest economies.”They have to give us magnets, if they don’t give us magnets, then we have to charge them 200% tariffs or something,” Trump told reporters after a meeting with South…
A brand new Nissan car is displayed on the sales lot at Golden State Nissan on March 26, 2025 in Colma, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty ImagesNissan Motor shares tumbled on Tuesday after Mercedes-Benz announced plans to offload its 3.8% holding in the Japanese automaker.Tokyo-listed shares of Nissan declined as much as 6.7% before paring some losses to trade 6% lower.Mercedes-Benz’s pension trust will divest its stake worth roughly $346 million in Nissan Motor, a company spokesperson reportedly said on Monday. The spokesperson added that Nissan holdings, which were moved into pension assets in 2016, were not strategically significant while framing the…
In this photo illustration, the Interactive Brokers LLC logo seen displayed on a smartphone.Igor Golovniov | LightRocket | Getty ImagesS&P Dow Jones Indices said Monday that it will add Interactive Brokers to the S&P 500 Index at the opening of trading on Thursday. The brokerage service is replacing Walgreens Boots Alliance, which is being taken private in a deal with Sycamore Partners that is expected to close soon. Interactive Brokers shares jumped nearly 5% in after-hours trading on the news. The stock has doubled over the past year, and is up 42% year to date. Meanwhile, Robinhood Markets shares were…
U.S. President Donald Trump wears a ‘Trump Was Right About Everything!’ hat, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 22, 2025. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters “State-owned enterprise” is a term you wouldn’t normally bandy about when mentioning the United States — especially not with the country’s Republican party, which has been associated with a laissez-faire approach to businesses and the economy.If White House gets it way, however, it appears that the government’s 10% stake in Intel is just the start. U.S. President Donald Trump in a Truth Social post signaled favoring companies that strike…
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CNBC’s Jim Cramer reviewed Monday’s market action and told investors why he thinks it’s a good idea to stay with the tech titans even when their stocks take a hit.”I will never try to stop you from selling. That’s not my job. I just want you to remember how these individual stocks have generated tremendous wealth for those who have held on,” he said. “You made that money by sticking with them through thick and thin, not by trading in and out of them.”The averages fell on Monday as Nvidia failed to bolster the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite, which closed down…
A general view of the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 21, 2025. Kent Nishimura | ReutersThe head of a Pentagon unit responsible for accelerating the military’s adoption of new technology resigned on Monday, according to four people familiar with the matter, the latest exit of a senior military official whose political views have clashed with those of U.S. President Donald Trump.Doug Beck, director of the Silicon Valley-based Defense Innovation Unit, told staff in an email that he was stepping down, the people said. He did not provide a reason for his departure in the email, but wrote that working at the DIU was “basically the greatest…
U.S. President Donald Trump meets with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, in Turnberry, Scotland, Britain, July 27, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein | ReutersPresident Donald Trump vowed Monday to impose “substantial” new tariffs and restrict U.S. chip exports for all countries that do not remove digital taxes and related regulations.Trump wrote on Truth Social that digital services taxes, or DSTs — which are currently imposed by dozens of countries — “are all designed to harm, or discriminate against, American Technology.””I put all Countries with Digital Taxes, Legislation, Rules, or Regulations, on notice that unless these discriminatory actions are removed, I, as…
