Hope versus reality: That’s the mood among market watchers as we count down to the Fed’s interest rate decision.
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CNBC Daily Open: Hoping for a 50-basis-point cut
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China encircles Taiwan in massive military display
A giant screen shows a news report on China’s “Justice Mission 2025” military drills around Taiwan, in Beijing, China Dec. 30, 2025. Tingshu Wang | Reuters China fired rockets into waters off Taiwan on Tuesday, showcased new assault ships and dismissed prospects of U.S. and allied intervention to block any future attack by Beijing to […]
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Corti will go public but not in 2026, AI healthcare CEO tells CNBC
Key Points “We will definitely go public at some point,” Corti CEO Andreas Cleve tells CNBC. The Danish company has developed AI infrastructure for healthcare, focused on text and audio data. Cleve ruled out going public in 2026 but declined to give a more specific timeline, saying: “The private market is still very appealing when […]
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Copper on pace for best year since 2009 as AI demand, supply fears fuel record price rally
Copper anodes come out of a furnace at the Glencore Canadian Copper Refinery (CCR) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Copper is on track for its biggest annual price rise in more than a decade, driven by supply disruptions, a weakening U.S. dollar, improving expectations for […]
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