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China is limiting retail access to U.S. stocks. Here’s what it means

TazaPulseJune 3, 2026

Visitors walk by a large Chinese national flag painted on the side of a container at an outdoor market during the Golden Week holiday in Beijing, China, on Oct. 3, 2024. Kevin Frayer | Getty Images China is making it harder for retail investors to steer money to U.S. stocks, ramping up a longer-term shift...

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Australia’s first-quarter economic growth misses estimates on severe weather, weak demand

TazaPulseJune 3, 2026

Tourists sit on a bollard at the Sydney Opera House. Afp Contributor | Afp | Getty Images Australia’s economy lost momentum in the first quarter, as subdued household spending, a pullback in government consumption and severe weather disruptions to mining and exports dampened momentum. The country’s GDP expanded 2.5% in the first three months this...

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Goldman Sachs still see more upside

TazaPulseJune 3, 2026

Bank employees work in front of multiple monitors at the Hana Bank dealing room in Seoul, South Korea, on May 12, 2026. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images South Korea’s stock market has already doubled this year, but some strategists say the rally may still have room to run as the country’s artificial intelligence-linked chip...

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Nikkei, Kospi, Hang Seng, Sensex, Iran, oil

TazaPulseJune 3, 2026

A stock broker at the Prudential Brokerage office follows the Hang Seng Index results in Hong Kong in March 2020. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets opened higher Wednesday, with Japan’s Nikkei 225 hitting a record high, as investors appeared to look past uncertainty over U.S.-Iran negotiations aimed at ending the Middle...

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Blackstone closes its largest Asia private equity fund at over $13 billion

TazaPulseJune 2, 2026

The Blackstone headquarters in New York, US, on Wednesday, July 17, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Blackstone said Tuesday it had raised $13.1 billion for its latest Asia private equity fund, marking its largest PE fundraise in the region. The alternative asset manager said that Blackstone Capital Partners Asia III exceeded its $10...

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Kospi, Nikkei 225, Hang Seng Index

TazaPulseJune 2, 2026

An electronic quotation board displays the Nikkei 225 stock prices on the Tokyo stock Exchange in Tokyo on Nov. 5, 2025. Greg Baker | Afp | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets open lower Tuesday, as investors weighed renewed uncertainty over U.S.-Iran peace negotiations, while Wall Street benchmark indexes climbed to fresh highs overnight on tech optimism....

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China learns to build without Nvidia

TazaPulseJune 2, 2026

An iFlytek liquid-cooled server equipped with Huawei Kunpeng 920 chips and Ascend AI chips, on display at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, China on July 26, 2025. Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images Hi, this is Evelyn, writing to you from Beijing. Welcome to the latest edition of The China Connection —...

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SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son to CNBC

TazaPulseJune 1, 2026

The AI revolution is 50 times bigger than the dotcom revolution in the 2000s, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son told CNBC Monday. “I think this is like more than 10x, probably 50x bigger than dotcom,” Son told CNBC’s Arjun Kharpal in Paris, a day after the company announced that it’s investing 75 billion euros ($87 billion)...

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Goldman Sachs says Japan rally still has legs after record Topix run

TazaPulseJune 1, 2026

Japanese stocks still have room to climb even after this year’s blistering rally, according to Goldman Sachs, citing stronger corporate earnings, rising shareholder returns and renewed foreign inflows as reasons for further gains. The bank raised its 12-month target for the Topix index to 4,400 from 4,200, which marks an upside of more than 11%...

Inside Thailand’s Chang beer dynasty, daughters got seats at the table too

TazaPulseJune 1, 2026

Thapanee Techajareonvikul, took the reins as CEO and President of Berli Jucker PCL in 2023, becoming the storied retail and packaging firm’s first female chief executive. For Thapanee Techajareonvikul, the conviction that women belong in top leadership roles was never unusual. Her late mother, Wanna Sirivadhanabhakdi, was instrumental in building TCC Group into a multi-billion-dollar...