Chinese bond market grapples with ‘Japanification’

Biden administration adding dozens of Chinese firms to forced-labor blacklist

The Biden administration added more than two dozen Chinese companies to its forced labor blacklist Friday in its latest effort to combat the exploitation of China's ethnic Uyghur population. The ...

Politics - The Hill - November 22

Chinese researchers unveil LLaVA-o1 to challenge OpenAI’s o1 model

LLaVA-o1 breaks down the answer into multiple reasoning components and uses inference-time scaling to optimize each stage.

Tech - VentureBeat - November 22

Emerging Details of Chinese Hack Leave U.S. Officials Increasingly Concerned

Leaders of the big telecommunications companies were summoned to the White House to discuss strategies for overhauling the security of the nation’s telecommunications networks amid growing alarm at ...

Top stories - The New York Times - 6 days ago

Chinese trans woman awarded thousands over forced electroshock therapy

Trans performance artist Ling'er says she was forced to undergo electroshock treatments at a hospital in China that left her with a heart condition.

Chinese ship linked to cable sabotage urged to move into Swedish waters

Stockholm steps up probe after two cables were cut in Baltic Sea

World - Financial Times - 3 days ago

Chinese warplanes track US Navy aircraft through the sensitive Taiwan Strait

China has deployed military aircraft and ships to track and monitor a U.S. Navy plane transiting the sensitive Taiwan Strait, Beijing said, as the two nations continue to spar over self-ruled Taiwan

World - ABC News - 3 days ago

Trump can deter Chinese aggression against Taiwan — if he has the will

Donald Trump can show deterrence actually works, and thereby save the world from a catastrophic Chinese miscalculation.

Politics - The Hill - 3 days ago

Sweden urges Chinese ship to return for undersea cable investigation

Sweden is asking a Chinese vessel to return to its waters to help with an investigation into recent breaches of undersea fiber-optic cables in the Baltic Sea.

OpenAI faces critical test as Chinese models close the gap in AI leadership

In the fast-moving world of AI, competition is heating up—and nowhere is this more evident than in the battle over advanced reasoning models. In just the past few days, three new AI models from ...

Tech - VentureBeat - Yesterday

China Journalist, Dong Yuyu, Is Sentenced to Prison for Espionage

Dong Yuyu, who has written articles critical of the Communist Party, was arrested in 2022 while having lunch with a Japanese diplomat.

World - The New York Times - 13 hours ago

U.K. government bond yields hit 2024 highs as traders balk at increased debt sales

Benchmark U.K. bond yields hit their highs of the year on Thursday as investors balked at the increased borrowing set out in the government’s budget.

Business - MarketWatch - October 31

Treasury Department announces new Series I bond rate of 3.11% for the next six months

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has announced new Series I bond rates through April 2025.

Business - CNBC - October 31

10-year Treasury yield dives by most in a month after Iowa poll tilts in favor of Harris

Treasury yields finished broadly lower on Monday after a key poll gave Vice President Kamala Harris an edge over former President Donald Trump ahead of Tuesday’s election.

Business - MarketWatch - November 4

Boeing’s stock fails to hold gains after strike ends, but bonds are holding up

Spreads on Boeing’s outstanding bonds are moving tighter on the day after workers voted to end a 53-day strike.

Business - MarketWatch - November 5

Cramer says 'so many things are working' in the market. Here are a few bright spots

The Investing Club holds its "Morning Meeting" every weekday at 10:20 a.m. ET.

Business - CNBC - November 8

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