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Inside the U.S.-Ukraine Mineral-Rights Deal
Given that, Ian, I would imagine it would be extra important for Ukrainian officials for this deal to become commercially viable. Analysts, you report, estimate the potential value of those minerals could amount to trillions of dollars. But what is the outlook for those critical minerals actually entering the US supply chain eventually?
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Inside the U.S.-Ukraine Mineral-Rights Deal
House Republicans squeezed through a budget blueprint late last night, with all but one GOP lawmaker backing the framework for President Trump's tax, border and spending cut agenda.
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Inside the U.S.-Ukraine Mineral-Rights Deal
The plan, which likely won't accommodate all of the tax reductions Trump wants, calls for at least $1.5 trillion in spending cuts over a decade and will require significant cuts to Medicaid, an issue that's left House Republicans deeply divided.
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Inside the U.S.-Ukraine Mineral-Rights Deal
While party leaders say the blueprint doesn't specifically mention Medicaid, more than half of the cuts it targets will come from the Energy and Commerce Committee, which has jurisdiction over the program. Though its passage is a sign Republicans can deliver major legislation despite holding slim majorities in Congress, the budget plan faces a complicated path ahead.
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Inside the U.S.-Ukraine Mineral-Rights Deal
The Senate, which favors larger tax cuts, plans to alter the House blueprint rather than accept it. In a shake-up of American visa programs, President Trump plans to roll out a $5 million gold card visa that would allow wealthy people to buy permanent residency and potentially provide a pathway to full citizenship. Trump says the U.S.
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Inside the U.S.-Ukraine Mineral-Rights Deal
could sell a million gold cards and that they would enable companies like Apple to pay to get approval for highly skilled workers to live in the U.S.,
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Inside the U.S.-Ukraine Mineral-Rights Deal
The new visas would replace the existing EB-5 visa that offers green cards to people who invest in the U.S., a program that has been plagued by cases of fraud, but which Journal-White House reporter Tarini Party said also enjoys strong bipartisan support in states that have benefited from it.
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Inside the U.S.-Ukraine Mineral-Rights Deal
Ukraine agrees to a mineral rights deal with the U.S. We'll get the latest from Kyiv. Plus, House Republicans pass a budget plan overcoming disagreements on the size of proposed spending cuts. And President Trump floats a $5 million gold visa for wealthy individuals.
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Inside the U.S.-Ukraine Mineral-Rights Deal
Währenddessen hat die Trump-Administration eine Registrierung geschaffen, in der Immigranten in den USA illegal ihre persönliche Informationen oder Fälle in der Gefängniszeit anbieten müssen. Laut Dokumenten, die im Journal gesehen wurden, würden die Immigranten, insbesondere 14 und älteren Kinder, ihre Fingerprinten und Heimatadressen anbieten müssen.
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Those who fail to do so could be fined up to $5,000 and sentenced to up to six months in prison. Previously, immigrants in the country illegally were committing a civil offense and could be detained and deported, but weren't considered to have committed a crime. Coming up, investing columnist Spencer Jacobs stops by to discuss the widening gap between the expected returns for large U.S.
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Inside the U.S.-Ukraine Mineral-Rights Deal
growth stocks and cheaper alternatives abroad. That and other news moving markets after the break. Amerikas biggest growth stocks have a big expensive problem, so writes the Journal's investing columnist Spencer Jacob, who's been tracking data that compares the expected returns of those stocks against cheaper alternatives. And he's here to share what that data has been turning up.
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Inside the U.S.-Ukraine Mineral-Rights Deal
Spencer, the premise of your latest column is that there's been a bit of unusual activity in the relationship between the performance of the S&P 500 and the MSCI IFA, IFA standing for Europe, Australasia and the Far East. So broadly here, US stocks versus non-US developed market stocks. And namely, it's that this relationship lately has been trending way outside of historic norms.
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Inside the U.S.-Ukraine Mineral-Rights Deal
Und wie Sie messen, wie teuer sie sind, hat viel zu tun mit ihren erwarteten Einkommen. Sie haben sich mit Forschungs-Affiliaten befasst, um ihre 10-Jahre-Vorgaben für ein paar verschiedene Kategorien zu schauen. Was haben Sie gefunden?
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Inside the U.S.-Ukraine Mineral-Rights Deal
And Spencer, lest someone be very tempted right now to put the podcast down and go and trade on the basis of some of the analysis you've just given us. Of course, it's not always that easy and there could be factors that conspire to make this not be the winning bet over the coming decade, I'm sure.
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Inside the U.S.-Ukraine Mineral-Rights Deal
It's Wednesday, February 26th. I'm Luke Vargas for The Wall Street Journal. And here is the AM edition of What's News. The top headlines and business stories moving your world today. The US and Ukraine have agreed to the terms of a mineral rights deal that could be signed by President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky in Washington as soon as Friday.
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Spencer Jacob is the Wall Street Journal's investing columnist and he edits our Markets AM newsletter, which you can subscribe to for free at the link we've left in our show notes. Spencer, thanks so much for dropping by. Hey, thanks a lot.
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Inside the U.S.-Ukraine Mineral-Rights Deal
Und in News Moving Markets today, US-listed shares in Budweiser Brewer AB InBev are sharply higher in off-hours trading, after it reported growth in its US market share on the backs of its Michelob Ultra and Bush Light brands. The company's global results left more to be desired, though, as fourth-quarter sales volumes fell, dragged by lingering weakness in China.
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Inside the U.S.-Ukraine Mineral-Rights Deal
Copper prices are rising after White House officials said the US would investigate imposing global import tariffs on the metal. Senior administration officials said the probe was necessary to spur domestic production, but declined to say how high the tariffs could be or when they could be imposed.
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And on deck today, Lowe's and TJ Maxx-Owner TJX Companies are reporting earnings this morning with Salesforce and NVIDIA following this afternoon. And the Commerce Department will release new home sales figures for January at 10 a.m. Eastern. And that's it for What's News for this Wednesday morning.
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Inside the U.S.-Ukraine Mineral-Rights Deal
Today's show was produced by Daniel Bach and Kate Bullivant with supervising producer Christina Rocca. And I'm Luke Vargas for The Wall Street Journal. We will be back tonight with a new show. Until then, thanks for listening. Bis zum nächsten Mal.
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Inside the U.S.-Ukraine Mineral-Rights Deal
Zelensky had said for months Ukraine's allies could have access to the country's mineral resources, but that an agreement would need to include security guarantees. So how does the final deal measure up? I asked Journal foreign correspondent Ian Lovett.
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Trump Defends Tariffs, Budget Cuts in No-Apologies Address
So what did the record hour and 40 minute address tell us about what's in store? WSJ economic policy reporter Brian Schwartz said more protectionism.
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Trump Defends Tariffs, Budget Cuts in No-Apologies Address
Speaking after a volatile day of trading in which the S&P 500 closed below its final election day level as US tariffs went into effect on Mexico, Canada and China, Trump acknowledged that retaliatory measures, especially those from China targeting American farmers, could trigger an adjustment period, but he defended the necessity of continuing his approach.
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Trump Defends Tariffs, Budget Cuts in No-Apologies Address
Trump filled in some additional details about so-called reciprocal tariffs, saying the measures to equalize US duties with the tariff and non-tariff barriers imposed by other nations would be imposed on April 2nd, though administration officials have told industry groups they could take six months or more to fully implement.
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Trump Defends Tariffs, Budget Cuts in No-Apologies Address
Well, Brian said Trump was equally enthusiastic about continuing the hunt for cuts to the government budget, even as top House Republicans urged GOP lawmakers to stop holding in-person town halls after confrontations with constituents and Democratic activists over government layoffs and feared Medicaid cuts went viral.
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Trump Defends Tariffs, Budget Cuts in No-Apologies Address
Präsident Trump verteidigt seine Handels- und Regierungsagenda und eine unabhängige Anmerkung an den Kongress. Und wir fangen gerade an. Plus, Commerce Secretary Howard Ludnick hints at a looming deal to reduce tariffs on Canada and Mexico. And China sets a strong growth target and doubles down on homegrown AI. It's Wednesday, March 5th. I'm Luke Vargas for The Wall Street Journal.
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Trump Defends Tariffs, Budget Cuts in No-Apologies Address
In a speech that has traditionally served as a White House wish list for congressional action, Trump did present some specifics. He called for a repeal of the 2022 CHIPS Act, which pumped billions of dollars into domestic semiconductor development and manufacturing, and which was backed by 17 Republicans in the Senate and 24 in the House.
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Trump Defends Tariffs, Budget Cuts in No-Apologies Address
Trump hat auch die Gesetzgeber gefragt, große neue Ressourcen in den Bord zu versorgen. Und er hat die Anrufe geäußert, große neue Taxikosten zu sehen, aufgrund von extenderen, ausländischen, Schritte, die die Revenue von 2 Trillionen Dollar über eine Dekade weiter reduzieren könnten.
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Trump Defends Tariffs, Budget Cuts in No-Apologies Address
Diese letzte Anrufung könnte die GOP-Effekte komplizieren, um auf eine bereits sprachlose Taxibille zu stimmen, unter konservativen Sorgen über solche großen Steuern ohne entsprechende Reduktionen in der Spende. Damian told us that debate in Congress is likely to become a major theme to watch in the second half
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Und als für ein Politik-Domain, das in der Präsidenten-Kurse, Forum-Polizei, square ist, hat Damien gesagt, dass Trump einige der mehr bombastischen Kommentare, die er in den letzten Wochen gemacht hat, zurückgeleitet hat.
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Trump Defends Tariffs, Budget Cuts in No-Apologies Address
And before we move on, we should point out that after Trump's address to Congress, Commerce Secretary Howard Ludnick spoke to reporters and said the administration could announce a deal today to reduce, though not eliminate, tariffs on Canada and Mexico. He added that the agreement could include increased border security, but the details were still being discussed.
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Trump Defends Tariffs, Budget Cuts in No-Apologies Address
Coming up, China shrugs off looming trade tensions as it targets yet another year of 5% economic growth. And our AI editor drops by to discuss the race to stop AI chatbots from hallucinating. Those stories and more after the break.
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Trump Defends Tariffs, Budget Cuts in No-Apologies Address
China hat seine 2025-Growth-Target bei rund 5 Prozent gesetzt, das gleiche wie letztes Jahr, signalisierend, dass es seine Ökonomie erwarten würde, um den steigenden Handelsdruck aus Washington abzuhalten. Es hat auch eine Deficit-Target von rund 4 Prozent der GDP gesetzt, die höchst in Jahren, was zeigt, dass mehr Stimulus vielleicht auf dem Weg ist, um ihre flaggierende Ökonomie zu starten.
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Trump Defends Tariffs, Budget Cuts in No-Apologies Address
WSJ-Tech-Reporter Raphael Huang sagt, dass China auch seine ökonomischen Ziele zu erhöhten Ereignissen zu erreichen, insbesondere in der KI.
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Trump Defends Tariffs, Budget Cuts in No-Apologies Address
And in other business and markets news, the Senate has voted to repeal a Biden-era rule that would have required decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges to report their customers' transactions to the Internal Revenue Service as of tax year 2027. The 70-27 vote delivers a bipartisan victory to the crypto industry, teeing up the measures to be signed into law soon.
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Trump Defends Tariffs, Budget Cuts in No-Apologies Address
And here is the AM edition of What's News. The top headlines and business stories moving your world today.
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Trump Defends Tariffs, Budget Cuts in No-Apologies Address
And we're exclusively reporting that Goldman Sachs is preparing its annual round of layoffs and this time is focusing on its vice presidents. According to people familiar with the matter, Goldman CEO David Solomon told senior executives that the firm hired too many VPs in recent years in relation to its overall hiring. About three to five percent of the firm's workforce is expected to be cut.
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Trump Defends Tariffs, Budget Cuts in No-Apologies Address
And as tech industry leaders continue to meet at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, artificial intelligence has unsurprisingly been in focus. But as journal AI editor Ben Fritz reports, AI's utility, especially in sensitive corporate or legal contexts, is being held back by the seeming inability of chatbots to admit, I don't know, when presented with difficult questions.
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Trump Defends Tariffs, Budget Cuts in No-Apologies Address
It's a lesson that Ben found out when he asked, who am I married to?
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Trump Defends Tariffs, Budget Cuts in No-Apologies Address
Und als ein relativ kleines Problem verabschiedet, hat Ben gesagt, dass Forscher ständig Fixationen durchführen, obwohl die Arbeit schwierig ist.
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Trump Defends Tariffs, Budget Cuts in No-Apologies Address
In his first major speech since the inauguration, President Trump told a joint session of Congress last night that his agenda, which he described as swift and unrelenting and which has included an immigration crackdown, cuts to the federal workforce and stiff tariffs on imports, had already succeeded in revitalizing America's momentum. Gone were appeals to unity.
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Trump Defends Tariffs, Budget Cuts in No-Apologies Address
Und für viel mehr über diese Bemühungen, AI-Halluzinationen zu beenden, sowie andere Dispatches aus der ganzen Kutting-Edge der Artificial Intelligence-Welt, können die Journal-Subscriber den WSJs-Spezialreport auf What's Ahead for AI schauen. Wir haben einen Link dazu in unseren Show Notes gelegt. And that's it for What's News for this Wednesday morning.
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Today's show was produced by Kate Boulevent and Daniel Bach with supervising producer Christina Rocca. And I'm Luke Vargas for The Wall Street Journal. We will be back tonight with a new show. Until then, thanks for listening.
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Trump Defends Tariffs, Budget Cuts in No-Apologies Address
Trump attacked Democrats as radical left lunatics and blamed former President Joe Biden for the country's problems. At multiple points, Democrats broke out in boos. And just seven minutes into the speech, Democratic Representative Al Green of Texas was escorted out after rising from his seat and shouting at the president, prompting an intervention by House Speaker Mike Johnson.
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Trump Wants a Quick Ukraine Deal. Putin Has Other Ideas.
However, his comments come as multiple European leaders are trying to steer Trump closer to their position on how to end the war. For instance, five European countries abstained on that UN Security Council resolution about Ukraine yesterday, which didn't blame Moscow for the war.
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Trump Wants a Quick Ukraine Deal. Putin Has Other Ideas.
Und wie Journalist Thomas Grove hier zu diskutieren ist, aufgrund dieser Unterschiede in der Meinung, sind die westlichen Zeitlinien für das Ende der Krieg auf einem Kurs mit dem russischen Präsidenten Wladimir Putin. Thomas, Sie berichten, dass Putin die Erde für unendliche Gespräche, unendliche Negotiierungen, vorbereitet.
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Erzähl uns ein bisschen mehr darüber, wie jeder Seite diese Friedensnegotiierungen sieht.
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Trump Wants a Quick Ukraine Deal. Putin Has Other Ideas.
Right. And another thing I imagine Russia won't be happy about is some of the reporting we've had in the last few days that the French and British are looking at plans to deploy European peacekeepers to Ukraine once a deal is struck. It's funny.
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Trump Wants a Quick Ukraine Deal. Putin Has Other Ideas.
Just given the potentially long timeline for a peace agreement here and the fact, as you report, Russia plans to use its upper hand on the battlefield to its advantage, do we have a sense of how long it will last? Ukraine might be able to sustain its war effort without further US aid?
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Trump Wants a Quick Ukraine Deal. Putin Has Other Ideas.
Die USA steigen die Sanktionen auf, um iranische Öl zu targetieren, plus Tesla-Sales in Europa. Und während Präsident Trump für einen schnellen Ende der Krieg in der Ukraine drückt, hat Moskau andere Ideen.
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Trump Wants a Quick Ukraine Deal. Putin Has Other Ideas.
And I guess another major question here to wrap things up is that the US has a role to play in all of this, perhaps in speeding talks up, trying to hold Russia to account if they appear to be dragging their feet. According to the folks you've spoken to, what is the assessment of sort of the American leverage that exists here to try to dictate the timetable?
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Trump Wants a Quick Ukraine Deal. Putin Has Other Ideas.
I've been speaking to Wall Street Journal correspondent Thomas Grove in Warsaw. Thomas, thank you so much. Thank you. Coming up, the rest of the day's news, including new sanctions targeting Iranian oil and a drop in Tesla's sales in Europe. Those stories and more after the break.
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Trump Wants a Quick Ukraine Deal. Putin Has Other Ideas.
The US is ratcheting up sanctions targeting Iran's oil supply chain, continuing the Trump administration's campaign to effectively blockade the country's petroleum exports. That's according to the Treasury Department, which has announced new sanctions on more than 30 entities, individuals and vessels connected with Iran's so-called shadow fleet.
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Trump Wants a Quick Ukraine Deal. Putin Has Other Ideas.
Dies betrifft Ölverkäufer in den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten und Hongkong, Tanker-Operatoren und Managern in China und den Vorsitzenden des iranischen staatlichen Ölverkaufs. Präsident Trumps Policies sind für die Entfernung iranischer Exporten ausgeschlossen, mit einer Memo, die dieses Monat vorgesehen wurde, die Begründung macht, dass Schiffen in China vorgesehen sind.
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Iran sagt, dass die US-Maximum-Pressur-Kampagne kohärent ist und internationale Regeln verurteilt. A representative for Iran's mission to the UN in New York didn't respond to a request for comment.
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In News that could move markets today, Tesla's sales in Europe fell 45% last month, according to data from the European Carmakers Association, with the EV maker selling fewer than 1,300 new vehicles in Germany, Europe's largest market.
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European Autos Reporter Steven Wilmot writes this morning that CEO Elon Musk's support for German far-right party AFD in this weekend's elections could be one reason for the pullback, alongside a hangover from high sales the previous month and a revamp of the Model Y. We'll leave a link to that analysis in our show notes.
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Trump Wants a Quick Ukraine Deal. Putin Has Other Ideas.
We are exclusively reporting that Anthropic, the startup behind AI-Chatbot Claude, is finalizing a new funding round that values the company at $61.5 billion.
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Trump Wants a Quick Ukraine Deal. Putin Has Other Ideas.
According to people familiar with the matter, Anthropic initially set out to raise $2 billion, but was able to increase that to $3.5 billion during talks with investors, showing how eager investors are to back promising AI firms, despite the disruptive arrival of China's DeepSeek. Unilever-CEO Hein Schumacher steigt in weniger als zwei Jahren nach dem Top-Roll am Konsum-Gut-Giant.
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Trump Wants a Quick Ukraine Deal. Putin Has Other Ideas.
Er wird von Finanzchef Fernando Fernandez gewechselt. Die Überraschung kommt in der Mitte eines großen Umgangs, um Kosten zu steigern und Volumen-Große zu steigern, während man Profit-Margen erweitert. US-Dockworkers are expected to ratify a new labor contract that manufacturers hope will avert the prospect of more paralyzing strikes at East and Gulf Coast ports through 2030.
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Trump Wants a Quick Ukraine Deal. Putin Has Other Ideas.
The deal secures a 62% pay increase and full protection against automation for workers, while allowing companies to more quickly modernize American ports and blunt some of the costs of that wage increase. And on deck today, earnings from Home Depot and Keurig Dr. Pepper are due out this morning, with fresh consumer confidence data set for release at 10 a.m. Eastern.
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Trump Wants a Quick Ukraine Deal. Putin Has Other Ideas.
It's Tuesday, February 25th. I'm Luke Vargas for The Wall Street Journal and here is the AM edition of What's News. The top headlines and business stories moving your world today. We begin with the latest efforts to end the war in Ukraine. Yesterday, the US joined Russia and China in backing a Washington-drafted UN Security Council resolution that called for a swift end to the conflict.
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Trump Wants a Quick Ukraine Deal. Putin Has Other Ideas.
And finally, we've talked here before about the AI race driving huge power demand as data centers scramble for available electricity. And as a result, power stocks and particularly nuclear power stocks emerged as some of Wall Street's biggest winners last year. But after those major run-ups, is that nuclear power trade over? And what do investors need to know about owning nuclear power stocks?
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How would you describe the right way to think about those stocks at this point?
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Trump Wants a Quick Ukraine Deal. Putin Has Other Ideas.
And for much more on what you should know about artificial intelligence and the nuclear power trade, check out the latest episode of WSJ's Take on the Week, wherever you get your podcasts. And that's it for What's News for this Tuesday morning. Today's show was produced by Kate Boulevent and Daniel Bach with supervising producer Christina Rocca. And I'm Luke Vargas for The Wall Street Journal.
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Trump Wants a Quick Ukraine Deal. Putin Has Other Ideas.
We will be back tonight with a new show. Until then, thanks for listening.
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Trump Wants a Quick Ukraine Deal. Putin Has Other Ideas.
And in comments alongside French President Emmanuel Macron at the White House, President Trump made it clear that he's expecting diplomatic progress soon.
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China Reins In Its Infrastructure Strategy But Not Its Global Ambition
So what does Washington make of this more focused and streamlined version of the Belt and Road and the role it plays in challenging the US-led global order? And is the Trump administration prepared to respond to it? Those questions will be the focus of our next episode, the final one in this special series. But for now, that's it for What's News Sunday. Bis morgen mit einem neuen Show. Bis dann.
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China Reins In Its Infrastructure Strategy But Not Its Global Ambition
Danke fürs Zuhören.
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China Reins In Its Infrastructure Strategy But Not Its Global Ambition
Das ist Bradley Parks, der Geschäftsführer von ADATA, dem Forschungs- und Entwicklungslabor am Global Research Institute von William & Mary, das betrachtet, wie viel China auf dem Belt and Road Infrastrukturprogramm spart. In den frühen Jahren von Belt and Road ging China auf einem Spendensprung in Bezug auf ihre ökonomischen und strategischen Ziele.
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China Reins In Its Infrastructure Strategy But Not Its Global Ambition
Financing bold engineering projects from mines and highways to ports and pipelines, in addition to growing its influence around the globe. But as the journal's chief China correspondent Lingling Wei pointed out at the end of the first episode in this special What's News Sunday series, those loans that China handed out to developing countries around the world weren't free money.
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China Reins In Its Infrastructure Strategy But Not Its Global Ambition
Eventually the debt would have to be repaid. And when it started coming due, signs of strain began to show. I'm Luke Vargas for The Wall Street Journal.
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China Reins In Its Infrastructure Strategy But Not Its Global Ambition
And in today's episode, my colleague Kate Bullivant will be taking a look at how Beijing is trying to dig itself out from the financial hole it created in the Belt and Road's early years and shield itself from risks going forward, all while keeping the wheels turning on its goal of building up its influence around the globe. Here's Kate.
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Can Europe Broker a Peace Plan for Ukraine?
Meanwhile, Israel says it is stopping the entry of goods into Gaza after a ceasefire officially expired over the weekend without any agreement with Hamas on what comes next.
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Hours before the ceasefire expired, Israel said it had agreed to a US proposal to extend the agreement, which would see the release of more hostages and delay until April talks to permanently end fighting, but that Hamas had refused the offer.
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Hamas sagte, dass Israel seine Kontrolle über Hilfe nach Gaza verwendet hat, um es in einen neuen Vertrag zu fordern, anstatt es zu erlauben, etwas zu sagen. Beide Seiten vorbereiten sich für eine Rückkehr zum Kampf.
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Und der US-Sekretär des Staates, Marco Rubio, sagte am Wochenende, dass er die Geheimdienste verwendet hat, um die Ermittlung von etwa 4 Billionen Dollar in Militärhilfe nach Israel zu steigern. We are exclusively reporting that executives at some of the biggest U.S.
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consulting firms are meeting with Trump officials to defend their contracts amid the administration's push to slash federal spending. That's as the General Services Administration, or GSA, has given procurement officials at federal agencies until Friday to list and justify consulting contracts they intend to keep from 10 companies, including Booz Allen, Accenture and GuideHouse.
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According to the GSA, the 10 highest paid consulting firms are set to receive more than $65 billion in total fees across 2025 and future years, money that has yet to be spent. In meetings with Trump officials, executives were told that the government still sees value in consulting, particularly in rolling out advanced technology and modernizing agencies.
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Chinese buyers are getting around US export controls to order NVIDIA's latest artificial intelligence chips. According to our reporting, traders in China are selling computer systems with NVIDIA's Blackwell chips installed by routing them through third parties in nearby regions like Malaysia, Vietnam and Taiwan, with some sellers promising delivery within six weeks.
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Ukraine's allies rally around President Zelensky in London. But how much can they do for Kiev without American support? Plus, consulting bosses scramble to defend billions of dollars in U.S. government contracts. And state legislatures resume their push to protect kids online, putting App Store operators on the defensive.
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NVIDIA said it would investigate every report of possible product diversion and take appropriate action. The grey market activity poses a fresh challenge for Washington, which is weighing how to manage a technological arms race with Beijing.
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And speaking of the great power rivalry between the world's top two economies, we're working on a special series about how Beijing is using its trillion-dollar Belt and Road Infrastructure Program to undercut American dominance on the world stage. The second episode of Building Influence is out now on the What's News feed.
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25% US-Tarif auf Importe aus Kanada und Mexiko werden morgen in Effekt gehen, mit einem zusätzlichen 10%-Tarif auf Produkte aus China.
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Während ein weiterer 11-Hour-Deal, um diese Zeit zurückzuführen, eine Möglichkeit bleibt, wollten unsere Kollegen bei WSJs Take-on-the-Week-Podcast versuchen, den möglichen Marktimpact zu finden, wenn diese Maßnahmen, plus mehr Handelsaktionen, die von Präsident Trump versprochen wurden, in Effekt kommen.
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Chad Bown, ein Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, said that the worsening spat with China could hit the American heartland particularly hard.
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And to hear that full interview, including Chad Bounds' analysis on how tariffs could hit the chips industry, North American manufacturers and overall US GDP, check out the latest episode of WSJ's Take on the Week. You can listen and subscribe on whatever platform you use to listen to us. Und in other news investors will be watching.
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We are exclusively reporting that energy major Shell is exploring the potential sale of its chemicals assets in Europe and the US as it refocuses on its more profitable oil and gas operations. That is according to people familiar with the matter who say the process is in its early stages and Shell has yet to commit to any final decisions.
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Und Kryptopreise haben gestern einen Boost bekommen, nachdem Präsident Trump sagte, dass er sich mit der Erstellung einer Krypto-Strategie-Reserve bewegen würde, die Bitcoin und Ether, sowie drei kleinere und riskierere Token, inkludieren würde. Trump hat keine weiteren Details geöffnet, aber er wird auf Freitag eine erste White House-Krypto-Summit aufrufen.
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Coming up, state legislatures are picking up the fight over online child safety and who should be responsible to verify the ages of social media users. That story after the break.
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Can Europe Broker a Peace Plan for Ukraine?
Let's revisit a story now that we spent a good deal of time talking about here and on What's News Sunday last year. The fight over online child safety. The journal's Amrith Ramkumar reports that fight is back on at state houses around the country. And it now features a rift between some of America's largest tech and social media platforms. Amrith, walk us through what's been going on lately.
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It sounds like there's been kind of a flurry of activity.
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Can Europe Broker a Peace Plan for Ukraine?
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WSJ What’s News
Can Europe Broker a Peace Plan for Ukraine?
It's Monday, March 3rd. I'm Luke Vargas for The Wall Street Journal. And here is the AM edition of What's News. The top headlines and business stories moving your world today. After publicly clashing with President Trump on Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with nearly 20 allies in London yesterday.
WSJ What’s News
Can Europe Broker a Peace Plan for Ukraine?
Hummerth, I know that privacy concerns and just overall skepticism about the efficacy of trying to age verify online in the first place have been perennial issues in the online safety debate. Has there been any movement in addressing those pitfalls?
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Can Europe Broker a Peace Plan for Ukraine?
That was Wall Street Journal Tech Policy Reporter Amrith Ramkumar. Amrith, thank you so much for bringing us this story.
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Can Europe Broker a Peace Plan for Ukraine?
And that's what's news for this Monday morning. Today's show was produced by Kate Bullivant with supervising producer Christina Rocca. And I'm Luke Vargas for The Wall Street Journal. We will be back tonight with a new show. Until then, thanks for listening.
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Can Europe Broker a Peace Plan for Ukraine?
A last-minute diplomatic gathering that attracted the leaders of Germany, Italy, France, Canada and Turkey in a show of support for Kyiv. But beyond optics, I asked the Journal's Deputy Brussels Bureau Chief Lawrence Norman what concrete progress came of the gathering.
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Negotiators Race to Extend Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire
Eine gemeinsame Pressekonferenz zwischen Trump und Zelenskyy wird um 1.00 Uhr östlich an der Schlussfolgerung von bilateralen Beratungen stattfinden. Mittlerweile ist es ein wichtiges Wochenende in der Mittleren Osten-Diplomatie, weil die erste Phase eines aktuellen Ausbruchs zwischen Israel und Hamas morgen ausführen wird.
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Negotiators Race to Extend Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire
Die USA, ein wichtiger Mediator in den Gesprächen, hat gesagt, dass sie sich auf eine zweite Phase bewegen wird, die die Krieg formal enden würde, aber mehr Zeit benötigen würde, um das zu tun. So how likely is that? And how are the parties to the war viewing things? Summer Said is a journal senior Middle East correspondent.
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Negotiators Race to Extend Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire
Summer, you have always got a good pulse on when diplomatic talks are actually occurring versus when this is all just bluster that we're hearing. What's happening? Are the parties talking?
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Negotiators Race to Extend Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire
Earlier this week you reported that Hamas' military forces were regrouping, new commanders were being appointed. They were working out where they might position fighters if there was a return to the war. Just expand on that a bit. That was Hamas' militant wing making those preparations. Does their political wing necessarily feel the same way?
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Negotiators Race to Extend Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire
And could that all just be posturing, not wanting to seem ahead of talks like they wouldn't be willing to fight if it came to it?
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Negotiators Race to Extend Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire
Ukraines Zelenskyy heads to Washington in a bid to win US support. Plus, as mediators work to salvage an expiring Gaza ceasefire, Hamas' military wing prepares for a new fight.
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Negotiators Race to Extend Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire
And in terms of what happens next in these talks, Summer, how do we factor in the Trump effect? He had a pretty galvanizing effect on the ceasefire process last month, demanding the release of hostages or else. Of course, there are still more than 60 hostages in Gaza, though many of them are presumed dead. How should we see his and the U.S. role in all of this?
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Summer Saeed ist Wall Street Journal Senior Middle East Correspondent. Summer, thank you so much for the update. Thank you. Coming up, the FAA readies a hiring push for U.S. air traffic controllers, plus how markets are reacting to President Trump's latest tariff threats and more after the break. FAA
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The Trump Administration wants to hire more air traffic controllers and spend billions of dollars to upgrade the nation's aviation system. As part of a plan to increase staffing, the Federal Aviation Administration will boost pay for air traffic control students at its academy in Oklahoma City by 30% and streamline its hiring and training process to attract the best candidates.
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It hopes to reverse staffing shortages that have strained workers and at times caused flight delays in recent years. While the administration has been cutting jobs across the federal government, including the FAA, controllers and aviation safety inspectors have been exempt.
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In an interview with the journal, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said he'd also ask Congress to fund tech upgrades to US air traffic control, pointing to its reliance on decades-old copper wire, floppy disks and phone jacks. A tweak in Google's algorithm has thrown product review sites into crisis.
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Sites offering tips on everything from mattresses to savings accounts, such as CNN Underscored and Forbes Vetted, rely on the tech giant to drive much of their traffic and therefore revenue. But over the past year, Google has changed how such sites appear in its search engine, saying it wants to offer users higher quality results.
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Journalist Alexandra Bruel hat gesagt, dass das für eine einmal lukrative Seite der News-Media verursacht worden ist.
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According to data firm SimilarWeb, traffic for personal finance recommendation site Forbes Advisor fell 83% in January, while CNN Underscored and BuySide from WSJ, which is operated by Wall Street Journal parent Dow Jones, were both down more than 25% in that period.
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And let's look at what's moving or not moving markets as we close out the week, starting with the response to President Trump's latest trade moves. We got a few more of them yesterday. Further 10% tariffs on products from China and clarification that 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico would kick in next Tuesday.
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That's on top of promised 25% EU tariffs, measures targeting automobiles, pharmaceuticals and semiconductors, and reciprocal tariffs meant to equalize US levies with duties and non-tariff barriers imposed by other nations. Given that flurry of activity, I asked Journal finance editor for Europe, Alex Frangos, how and if markets are able to keep up.
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And markets and Trump's team struggled to keep up with a flurry of tariff activity from the president. It's Friday, February 28th. I'm Luke Vargas for The Wall Street Journal. And here is the AM edition of What's News. The top headlines and business stories moving your world today. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is set to meet with President Trump at the White House this morning.
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As the journal's Gavin Bade reports, Trump administration officials are privately indicating that the president's full reciprocal tariff action could take six months or longer to implement, with people familiar with the discussion saying a previously announced April 2nd deadline affords too little time to fully analyze the tariff and non-trade barriers of countries around the world.
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Asian Stocks have ended the day deep in the red. Meanwhile, Bitcoin has dropped below the $80,000 mark, accelerating a recent retreat from highs reached ahead of Trump's inauguration last month, as investors lose their appetite for risky assets like cryptocurrencies.
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Negotiators Race to Extend Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire
And on deck today, the Fed's favored measure of inflation, the Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index, is set for release at 8.30 a.m. Eastern. And that's it for what's news for this Friday morning. Today's show was produced by Kate Belovint and Daniel Bach with supervising producer Christina Rocca. And I'm Luke Vargas for The Wall Street Journal. We will be back tonight with a new show.
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Negotiators Race to Extend Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire
Otherwise, have a great weekend. Thanks for listening.
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Negotiators Race to Extend Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire
Zelensky is hoping to finalize a mineral rights deal and then appeal to Trump for security guarantees, though it's unclear whether those guarantees are forthcoming.
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Negotiators Race to Extend Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire
Ein Senior-Trump-Administration-Official hat gestern gesagt, dass die USA keine Boots auf dem Boden in der Ukraine stellen würden, obwohl sie gefordert haben, dass eine Art indirekter Unterstützung für die Diskussion offen sein könnte, so lange die US-Truppen nicht in Schmerzen sind.