Novo Nordisk stock is sliding again — and the Wegovy pill’s surprise miss is partly to blame

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China’s exports accelerated in June, jumping 27% from a year earlier thanks partly to the boom in artificial intelligence, the customs agency said Tuesday. The increase in exports in June was much better than economists had expected. Exports rose 19.4% year-on-year in May. Imports in June surged 36%, better than May’s 27.4% year-on-year growth, with analysts attributing…

Beginning in April 2025, silver began a rapid ascent, nearly quadrupling in price from about $29 per ounce to a peak of more than $115 per ounce in January of this year. The price increase was driven by the growing demand for silver to serve the massive AI data center build-out. Those cloud facilities use…

The Trump administration has invested roughly $26.7 billion across 30 equity or quasi-equity deals, headlined by a 9.9% stake in chipmaker Intel that’s now worth $42 billion.  Others include $400 million into rare-earth miner MP Materials to loosen China’s grip on magnet supply chains; the “golden share” in U.S. Steel retained as a condition of…

A Republican senator whose vote is needed to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general said that the two sides haven’t yet reached an agreement that would secure his support ahead of a key vote on the nomination Thursday. Processing Content “Fake news alert: there is no ‘deal’ on Blanche nom,” John Cornyn of Texas posted…

The inspiration for Klook, one of Asia’s largest travel platforms, came after Ethan Lin took a trip to Nepal with his friend Eric Gnock Fah. The two were both analysts in Hong Kong’s investment scene: Fah covered consumer retail, while Lin covered hospitality and real estate.  Both were also third-culture kids. Fah grew up in…