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View of Santiago city and Andes Mountains taken from Metropolitan Park on July 2, 2024.Rodrigo Arangua | AFP | Getty ImagesChile is the latest Latin American country to become embroiled in the power struggle between the United States and China.The country, which counts Washington as its largest foreign investor and Beijing as its largest trading partner, is facing pressure from the White House over an undersea cable project with links to China. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced late last week that the United States would impose visa restrictions on three Chilean government officials involved in a digital cable…

TOKYO (AP) — U.S. futures are flat afterward. President Donald Trump’s State of the Union Meanwhile, Asian stocks mostly rose.Japanese benchmarks briefly hit record highs as investors rejoiced in Wall Street’s overnight rally driven by optimism about the artificial intelligence boom. Tokyo’s Nikkei Stock Average rose 2.2% to 58,583 yen.12. Stock prices also rose in China. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index rose 0.5% to 26,735.22, while the Shanghai Composite Index rose 0.6% to 4,142.17. South Korea’s Kospi continued to benefit from global demand for computer chips, as the benchmark rose 2.1% to 6,093.33.In Taiwan, shares of TSMC, the world’s largest…

US President Donald Trump delivered the longest State of the Union address in history on Tuesday night, highlighting a series of policies on the US economy, crime, trade, immigration and foreign policy, all of which he said contributed to a “turn around for the better.”His first speech in his second term lasted one hour and 48 minutes, beating the record of one hour and 28 minutes set by former President Bill Clinton in 2000.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of list”Our country is back. Bigger, better, richer and stronger than ever before,” President Trump said at the beginning of his…

A Venezuelan opposition leader recently released from prison was reunited with his niece during Tuesday’s State of the Union address as President Donald Trump touted the U.S. military operation that removed President Nicolas Maduro. During his speech, President Trump drew attention to Alejandra González, who was in the audience, saying she shares a special bond with her uncle, Enrique Marquez. “Alejandra, I’m happy to let you know that not only has your uncle been released, but he’s here tonight,” President Trump announced before Enrique Marquez entered the House of Representatives and hugged her to the applause of lawmakers. This heartwarming…

Ross Smith defeated Chris Doby 8-2 to win his seventh career Players Championship title.Smith averaged over 95 points in all but one of his seven wins against Leicester on Monday, and secured a spot in the final with relatively easy wins over Czech Republic’s Karel Sedlacek and Dave Chisnall in the semi-finals and quarter-finals. The 37-year-old also defeated Nico Springer, Michael Smith, Coe Decker and Justin Hood earlier in the day, and averaged 104.39 points in Tuesday’s final to oust a struggling Dobie. “I played consistently well today. I rode my luck a little bit, but unless you’re playing exceptionally…

London city skyline at dusk.Gary Yowell | Digital Vision | Getty ImagesLONDON — European stocks are expected to open sharply higher on Wednesday as the arrival of universal 10% tariffs, rather than U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat of 15% hikes, eases nerves in global markets. british FTSE The index is expected to rise by 0.47%, with Germany’s dachshund french flat CAC40 Italy up 0.2% FTSE MIB According to IG data, it is 0.25% higher.Wednesday is another busy earnings day iberdrola, E.ON, diageoBayer, Ferrovial, heidelberg materials, post italianFresenius, Novonesis, Telefonica. Data releases will include German GDP, consumer confidence and the latest…

U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with members of Congress as he leaves the State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, on February 24, 2026.Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump delivered a nearly two-hour State of the Union address Tuesday that focused primarily on the economy, which he declared would be booming. The president delivered his signature annual address as he sees poll numbers on the economy plummeting ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, which are less than nine months away. These elections threaten to shift control of Congress from Republicans, and…

England captain Leah Williamson has suggested players would be willing to go on strike if concerns about player welfare and playing schedules are not resolved. Williamson was called up to the Lionesses for the first time since Euro 2025 after undergoing surgery on a knee injury after the tournament. The 28-year-old missed the 2023 World Cup after sustaining an anterior cruciate ligament injury earlier that year and has since said the schedule was becoming unsustainable for the player. The England squad had 10 days off from competitive matches ahead of Tuesday’s World Cup qualifier against Ukraine.Williamson praised the FA’s efforts…

MatX, a chip startup founded by two former Google hardware engineers, has raised $500 million in a Series B led by Situational Awareness, an investment fund founded by Jane Street and former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner. The company’s goal is to make its processors 10x better at training LLM and delivering results than Nvidia’s GPUs. Other investors in the round include Marvell Technology, NFDG, Spark Capital, and Stripe co-founders Patrick Collison and John Collison, startup founder and CEO Reiner Pope announced in a LinkedIn post on Tuesday. The company hasn’t released its latest valuation, but Bloomberg reported last month that…

Important pointsSemiconductor giant Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company, will report earnings on Wednesday in a move that could have a huge impact on the market. “NVIDIA’s profits are widely seen as a barometer of the strength and durability of the global AI investment cycle,” VanEck product manager Camila Papaleo told CNBC. CNBC told analysts that European tech stocks could be most affected. While most Big Tech companies are reporting their financial results for the current fiscal year amid a lot of uncertainty in the market, the world’s most valuable companies are yet to come. Nvidia, whose powerful chips are…