Day: July 18, 2025
Trump AG to seek release of Jeffrey Epstein case grand jury transcripts
U.S. President Donald Trump listens during a multilateral lunch with African leaders in the State Dining Room of the White House July 9, 2025 in Washington, DC. Win Mcnamee | Getty Images News | Getty Images President Donald Trump, facing growing pressure to release Justice Department files related to Jeffrey Epstein, said on Thursday night […]
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CNBC Daily Open: The U.S. economy is not built on rock and roll
Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange on July 15, 2025. NYSE Despite the noise around tariffs and inflation fears, the U.S. economy seems to be holding its ground — for now. June retail sales came in stronger than expected, and weekly jobless claims dropped below forecasts. Add to that a solid start to earnings season, and you’ve got […]
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Nvidia CEO: If I were a 20-year-old again today, this is the field I would focus on in college
Co-founder and CEO of Nvidia Jensen Huang spoke to journalists during a trip to Beijing in July. Picture Alliance | Picture Alliance | Getty Images If Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang were a student today, he says he’d focus on the physical sciences. During a trip to Beijing on Wednesday, Huang was asked by a journalist: […]
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Australian stocks hit record high as Asia-Pacific markets track Wall Street gains
Australia stock markets climb to record high Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 climbed 0.58% to a record high of 8,689.4 during early trading hours. Year-to-date, the benchmark index as risen 6.62%, data from LSEG showed. Index heavyweights like mining giant BHP and Rio Tinto are up 1.7% and 1.32% respectively. Biotech firm CSL is up over 1.7%. Stock Chart […]
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Trump sent Jeffrey Epstein ‘bawdy’ 50th birthday letter: WSJ
Portrait of American financier Jeffrey Epstein, left, and Donald Trump as they pose together at the Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, in 1997. Davidoff Studios Photography | Archive Photos | Getty Images A “bawdy” letter to Jeffrey Epstein bearing President Donald Trump’s signature was included in an album of letters Epstein received for his […]
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Elon Musk’s Neuralink filed as ‘disadvantaged business’ before being valued at $9 billion
Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images Elon Musk’s health tech company Neuralink labeled itself a “small disadvantaged business” in a federal filing with the U.S. Small Business Administration, shortly before a financing round valued the company at $9 billion. Neuralink is developing a brain-computer interface (BCI) system, with an initial aim to help people […]
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