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Trump-Xi meeting to focus on trade, capital flows

TazaPulseApril 14, 2026

SHANGHAI/BEIJING — Hedge fund magnate Ray Dalio is optimistic that a highly anticipated meeting next month of the U.S. and Chinese presidents can go a long way toward soothing bilateral tensions. “The next meeting will have a particular emphasis on trade, but also capital flows,” the founder of Bridgewater Associates told CNBC’s Eunice Yoon on...

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Fed officials still foresee rate cut this year, despite war impacts, minutes show

TazaPulseApril 14, 2026

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks during a press conference following the Federal Open Markets Committee meeting at the Federal Reserve on March 18, 2026 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images Federal Reserve officials at their March meeting still expected to lower interest rates this year, even with a high level of uncertainty...

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Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: STZ, DDOG, OXY, CCL

TazaPulseApril 14, 2026

Check out the companies making the biggest moves in premarket trading: Datadog — The software company rose 2.3% following an upgrade to buy from neutral at Guggenheim. The firm said it believes Datadog is the primarily beneficiary of artificial intelligence-driven growth in data volumes and information technology complexity. CoreWeave — The AI cloud computing stock...

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AI threat plagues software stocks after latest updates from Anthropic

TazaPulseApril 13, 2026

Software’s artificial intelligence troubles don’t appear as though they will let up anytime soon, following the sector’s slide after Anthropic’s latest product and revenue updates. Software is down again this week, with the iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF (IGV) falling Wednesday — when most of the market participated in a sharp rally following President Donald...

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Alibaba leads $290m investment for Shengshu Vidu AI world model

TazaPulseApril 13, 2026

A mechanical hand is on display at the Robot Mall, world’s first embodied intelligent robot 4S store, on August 13, 2025 in Beijing, China. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images BEIJING — Alibaba Cloud is investing in a new type of artificial intelligence designed to better replicate the real world using a different...

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LITE, NOW, SNDK & more

TazaPulseApril 13, 2026

Check out the companies making the biggest moves premarket: Lumentum Holdings , Coherent — Lumentum shares jumped 5% after its CEO told Bloomberg that the optical and photonic producer’s products are booked through 2027, amid the artificial intelligence buildout. Shares of Coherent, another photonics company, were up 4%. Both companies have investments from Nvidia ....

BlackRock rips page from hedge fund playbook, applies it to ETFs

TazaPulseApril 13, 2026

BlackRock is applying hedge fund strategies to its exchange-traded fund business. Jeffrey Rosenberg, the firm’s senior portfolio manager on the systematic fixed income team, has a leading role in the firm’s liquid alternatives ETFs — which use a long-short strategy in ETF wrappers. He contends the strategy provides valuable diversification amid the recent breakdown in...

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Michael Burry says he’s still betting against Palantir after Trump post boosts stock

TazaPulseApril 13, 2026

Michael Burry attends “The Big Short” New York premiere at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York, Nov. 23, 2015. Andrew Toth | Filmmagic | Getty Images Michael Burry is sticking with his bearish wager against Palantir Technologies, even after a public endorsement from President Donald Trump helped lift the stock. The investor of the “Big...

How market’s private credit crisis fears are spreading to bond ETFs

TazaPulseApril 13, 2026

Fears of a private credit crisis are rising as firms at the heart of the growing, but less liquid and less transparent, bond market face investor redemptions. That stress test has arrived just as private loans became more prevalent in the ETF market. It was a little over a year ago that the Securities and...

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Chinese stocks that can recover on Iran ceasefire

TazaPulseApril 13, 2026

A ceasefire in the Iran war signals a path toward a de-escalation of geopolitical tensions — and an opportunity to re-engage in Asia stocks. That’s according to Morgan Stanley’s Singapore and Hong Kong-based equity strategists, who expect investors to return to themes from earlier in the year around the artificial intelligence supply chain. They also...