(RTTNews) - The China stock market on Wednesday snapped the four-day losing streak in which it had dropped almost 85 points or 2.1 percent. The Shanghai Composite Index now sits just above the 4,060-point plateau although it may hand those gains back on Thursday. The global forecast for the Asian markets is negative on pessimism over the outlook for interest rates. The European and U.S. markets we...
(RTTNews) - The China stock market on Wednesday snapped the four-day losing streak in which it had dropped almost 85 points or 2.1 percent. The Shanghai Composite Index now sits just above the 4,060-point plateau although it may hand those gains back on Thursday. The global forecast for the Asian markets is negative on pessimism over the outlook for interest rates. The European and U.S. markets were down and the Asian bourses are expected to open in similar fashion. The SCI finished modestly higher on Wednesday as gains from the insurance companies were offset by weakness from the properties and energy companies. For the day, the index added 13.08 points or 0.32 percent to finish at 4,062.98 after trading between 4,023.03 and 4,065.37. The Shenzhen Composite Index jumped 25.84 points or 0.97 percent to end at 2,680.88. Among the actives, Agricultural Bank of China slid 0.30 percent, while China Merchants Bank slipped 0.50 percent, Bank of Communications sank 0.58 percent, China Life Insurance improved 0.82 percent, Jiangxi Copper lost 0.54 percent, Aluminum Corp of China (Chalco) stumbled 2.92 percent, Yankuang Energy fell 0.35 percent, PetroChina declined 1.33 percent, China Petroleum and Chemical (Sinopec) surrendered 2.08 percent, China Shenhua Energy shed 0.54 percent, Gemdale tumbled 1.92 percent, Poly Developments tanked 2.15 percent, China Vanke retreated 1.49 percent and Huaneng Power, Bank of China and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China were unchanged. The lead from Wall Street is weak as the major averages opened lower on Wednesday and moved deeper into the red as the day progressed, ending at session lows. The Dow tumbled 768.11 points or 1.63 percent to finish at 46,225.15, while the NASDAQ dropped 327.11 points or 1.46 percent to close at 22,152.42 and the S&P 500 sank 91.39 points or 1.36 percent to end at 6,624.70. The weakness early in the day came following the release of a Labor Department report showing producer prices in the U.S. increased b...
The People’s Liberation Army has announced a new AI-assisted task dispatch system for China’s aerial refuelling tankers, days after a US military tanker crashed in the Middle East. According to the official PLA Daily , the Chinese air force has streamlined its aerial refuelling operations with a smart artificial intelligence (AI) system to improve efficiency and safety. The report on Monday came j...
The People’s Liberation Army has announced a new AI-assisted task dispatch system for China’s aerial refuelling tankers, days after a US military tanker crashed in the Middle East. According to the official PLA Daily , the Chinese air force has streamlined its aerial refuelling operations with a smart artificial intelligence (AI) system to improve efficiency and safety. The report on Monday came just days after a US Air Force Boeing KC-135 “Stratotanker” aerial refuelling tanker crashed in western Iraq during America’s Operation Epic Fury against Iran Advertisement According to the PLA Daily report, the “aerial refuelling area management system” – developed by technicians from the PLA Air Force – was first introduced during training at the end of last year. The system monitors real-time airspace situations and employs built-in algorithms to automatically calculate real-time fuel levels for all participating aircraft within the area. A US Air Force KC-135 “Stratotanker” flies over northern Alaska on March 4. Photo: Handout Based on the fuel levels, airspace capacity and flight duration of each aircraft, the system generates the most optimised pairing plans between tankers and fighters, issuing recommendations to pilots.
A man in China who had a 12cm-long metal chopstick lodged in his throat for eight years recently had surgery to remove the object. The man, surnamed Wang, underwent the surgery at Dalian Municipal Central Hospital in northeastern Liaoning province in early March. His experience has shocked internet users, the Daxiang News reported. Advertisement Eight years ago, Wang swallowed the chopstick by acc...
A man in China who had a 12cm-long metal chopstick lodged in his throat for eight years recently had surgery to remove the object. The man, surnamed Wang, underwent the surgery at Dalian Municipal Central Hospital in northeastern Liaoning province in early March. His experience has shocked internet users, the Daxiang News reported. Advertisement Eight years ago, Wang swallowed the chopstick by accident while eating and drinking alcohol. It is unclear how the man was able to swallow the 12cm-long metal chopstick, above. Photo: baijiahao.baidu.com At the time he felt pain but did not have any breathing problems.
TOKYO, March 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- TIER IV, the pioneering force behind open-source software for autonomous driving, is deepening its strategic collaboration with NVIDIA to redefine the future of Level 4 autonomous driving. Key highlights of this collaboration include the integration of NVIDIA Alpamayo, an open portfolio of AI models, simulation frameworks and physical AI datasets, and NVIDIA C...
TOKYO, March 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- TIER IV, the pioneering force behind open-source software for autonomous driving, is deepening its strategic collaboration with NVIDIA to redefine the future of Level 4 autonomous driving. Key highlights of this collaboration include the integration of NVIDIA Alpamayo, an open portfolio of AI models, simulation frameworks and physical AI datasets, and NVIDIA Cosmos, a platform with open world foundation models, guardrails and data processing libraries. These technologies will be integrated into Autoware*, open-source software for autonomous driving, and TIER IV's Co-MLOps platform, a collaborative data platform for AI development. Together with the autonomous bus deployment initiative with Isuzu and NVIDIA, TIER IV remains committed to advancing safe and scalable autonomous driving. Enhancing Level 4 autonomous driving with NVIDIA Alpamayo As a leading contributor to Autoware, TIER IV is integrating cutting-edge technologies through the development of software stacks for AI-based Level 4 autonomous driving. The company was an early adopter of NVIDIA Alpamayo 1, integrating it into Autoware to address complex scenarios with advanced reasoning processes and enhance explainability through language understanding. This 10-billion-parameter vision-language-action model introduces a reasoning layer into the driving stack, leveraging chain-of-thought processing to interpret complex scene dynamics. These capabilities allow TIER IV to enhance transparency and traceability in AI decision-making while achieving the human-like judgment required to navigate increasingly unstructured and complex environments. TIER IV will test the new models unveiled at NVIDIA GTC 2026, integrating them into Autoware to accelerate safe and scalable commercial deployments. Example of NVIDIA Alpamayo 1 applied to real-world vehicle data Supercharging Co-MLOps platform with NVIDIA Cosmos Since launching the Co-MLOps platform in 2024, TIER IV has led global initia...
Australia Has One Month Before Energy Crisis And Fuel Rationing If there is one prevailing misconception about the war in Iran, it is the idea that the closure of the Strait of Hormuz will hurt the US the most. This is simply not the case. In reality, only around 7% of US oil imports actually travel through the Hormuz to get to American markets. The potential long term instability in the strait is...
Australia Has One Month Before Energy Crisis And Fuel Rationing If there is one prevailing misconception about the war in Iran, it is the idea that the closure of the Strait of Hormuz will hurt the US the most. This is simply not the case. In reality, only around 7% of US oil imports actually travel through the Hormuz to get to American markets. The potential long term instability in the strait is far more damaging to economies in the East, and by extension, Australia faces potential crisis. Direct petroleum imports are not the biggest problem for Australia; around 15% of their oil crosses the Hormuz. Instead, the country relies heavily on refined fuel products exported from Asia, and Asian countries rely on the Hormuz for 40% to 70% of total oil needed for the refining process. Over 50% of Australia's refined fuel products rely on oil passing through the Hormuz. This means that a vast majority of Australia's diesel, gasoline, jet fuel and kerosene is on the verge of a supply collapse should the Hormuz remain under threat. Experts suggest the country has one month before crisis strikes and rationing is implemented. Contracted shipments of oil to Australia were all but guaranteed for at least the next month, Energy Minister Chris Bowen said. "The oil companies say to me that they fully expect all deliveries all through March and well into April, but we are in an internationally uncertain time and that's why we're doing such planning at the moment..." NRMA spokesman Peter Khoury has urged people to remain calm, saying there has never been a point in Australia's history when supply wasn't coming in. "As long as supply continues there is no need to panic, and supply has been continuing..." The reasons for Australia's oil vulnerability are numerous, but much of the blame can be attributed to a lack of government concern over energy independence and an ongoing progressive obsession with climate change and "green energy" projects. The Aussie government does subsidize the d...
1. The stone that sees the world, Palantir Palantir, which means "stone to see through the world," is the name of a mysterious bead from The Lord of the Rings (Tolkien, 1954). In other words, Palantir is a company with the vision of insighting the complex phenomena of the world by analyzing vast amounts of data with AI algorithms, just like the beads of wizards who see through the distance. 사진 확대 ...
1. The stone that sees the world, Palantir Palantir, which means "stone to see through the world," is the name of a mysterious bead from The Lord of the Rings (Tolkien, 1954). In other words, Palantir is a company with the vision of insighting the complex phenomena of the world by analyzing vast amounts of data with AI algorithms, just like the beads of wizards who see through the distance. 사진 확대 A painting of a wizard reaching for the shiny bead Palantir (created by co-pilot) Recently, Palantir has been in the public eye for his conflict with Anthropic. However, the fundamental reason for the attention is that it provides an "AI operating system" on a battlefield full of gunfire and saturation, instead of a fancy modifier for chatbots. While Google has established a library of information, Palantir is building an intelligent operating system that reads the battlefield of chaos. Palantir is commonly referred to as the "AI Arms Award" (Current Affairs, 2024), but it is actually more than that. It has become the "hand of Midas in the digital age" that transforms chaos data into power relationships and turns stones into gold at the forefront. Having surpassed 500 trillion in enterprise value and 6 trillion in annual sales (2025), Palantir has now grown beyond mere software companies to become a giant in AI infrastructure that competes with traditional blue-chip stocks such as Disney and American Express (Palantir Technologies, 2025). 사진 확대 Palantir, dubbed the "AI Weapon of the West," digs gold in taboo territory (written by Co-pilot) The secret to Palantir's remarkable growth lies in its cooperation with security agencies and its revolutionary contributions to the battlefield. With the investment of the CIA-backed venture fund In-Q-Tel, it grew up working with key U.S. security agencies (Scahill, 2016). By delivering AI-based information collection and targeting platforms to them, it has established itself as a key supplier in the defense industry (U.S. Army, 2023). T...
JPMorgan Chase & Co. has shut the private banking account of Tang Hao, a Chinese investor who rose to prominence after taking a multibillion-dollar stake in one of the world’s top-performing stocks, according to people familiar with the matter. Tang was a major client of JPMorgan’s China private banking team who generated millions of dollars in revenue before the firm ended relations a few months ...
JPMorgan Chase & Co. has shut the private banking account of Tang Hao, a Chinese investor who rose to prominence after taking a multibillion-dollar stake in one of the world’s top-performing stocks, according to people familiar with the matter. Tang was a major client of JPMorgan’s China private banking team who generated millions of dollars in revenue before the firm ended relations a few months ago due to know-your-customer issues, the people said, asking not to be identified because the information is private. Tang had a $4 billion stake in AppLovin Corp . as of early 2025 after the US ad-tech firm’s shares surged more than 700% the previous year. “As a matter of policy, we are unable to confirm whether any individual is a client of the private bank,” a spokesperson for JPMorgan said. Joshua Grandy, a spokesperson at AppLovin, said the firm declined to comment. A representative for Tang declined to comment. Shunning an investor with a disclosed large stake in a public company is an unusual move for a major private bank. Even so, JPMorgan’s revenue from the China business has been growing, according to a person familiar with the matter. Know-your-customer rules require banks to verify a client’s identity and source of funds to avoid potential illicit activity. Palo Alto, California‑based AppLovin, which provides marketing services to mobile app developers, was a beneficiary of the AI boom and ranked among the world’s best‑performing stocks in 2024. A filing from 2025 showed Tang had a 3.2% stake in the company, which is worth about $4.6 billion as of Tuesday’s close, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Read More: AppLovin Slump Pounds Chinese Investor With $4 Billion Stake Beyond investing, Tang has been active in philanthropy. His family donated $20 million in 2018 to Columbia University’s engineering school, and established a fellowship for artificial‑intelligence studies at Carnegie Mellon University through the Goldenway Education Foundation, now kn...
It comes after the New York Times published an investigation on Wednesday that detailed allegations from Huerta and two other women, who said Chavez groomed and sexually abused girls who were involved in the labour movement during the 1960s and 1970s.
It comes after the New York Times published an investigation on Wednesday that detailed allegations from Huerta and two other women, who said Chavez groomed and sexually abused girls who were involved in the labour movement during the 1960s and 1970s.
In this article @LCO.1 @CL.1 Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT A pumpjack stands at the Inglewood Oil field in Los Angeles, California on March 17, 2026. Patrick T. Fallon | Afp | Getty Images Oil prices extended gains as Middle East remains on the boil with strikes on energy infrastructure in the region fanning fears of a supply crunch. Qatar said Wednesday that Iranian missile stri...
In this article @LCO.1 @CL.1 Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT A pumpjack stands at the Inglewood Oil field in Los Angeles, California on March 17, 2026. Patrick T. Fallon | Afp | Getty Images Oil prices extended gains as Middle East remains on the boil with strikes on energy infrastructure in the region fanning fears of a supply crunch. Qatar said Wednesday that Iranian missile strikes had damaged a key liquefied natural gas export facility. The action followed Tehran's warning about attacking energy facilities in Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates after Israel bombed a natural gas processing facility in Iran. Brent crude May futures were 4% higher at $111.80 as of 8:45 p.m. ET, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate futures for April rose over 3% to $99.47. Iranian missile strikes inflicted "extensive damage" on Ras Laffan Industrial City, the world's largest LNG export facility in the world, Qatar said. Emergency crews were dispatched to tackle fires at Ras Laffan, QatarEnergy said in a social media post , adding there were no reported casualties. Qatar's Interior Ministry later said the blaze had been brought under control. Qatar's foreign Ministry condemned the attack as a "dangerous escalation" and a "flagrant violation of sovereignty," warning it threatened national security and regional stability. It added that Qatar reserves the right to respond under international law. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were on alert after Israel struck an Iranian natural gas processing facility. Qatar had already suspended LNG production on March 2 following Iranian drone attacks on Ras Laffan and Mesaieed Industrial City. The country is the world's second-largest LNG exporter after the U.S., accounting for nearly a fifth of global shipments, according to Kpler. The escalating strikes on Middle East energy infrastructure risk deepening the supply shock triggered by the Iran war. Tanker movement through the Strait of Hormuz that was handling ...
Torsten Asmus/iStock via Getty Images The following segment was excerpted from the Columbia Global Technology Growth Fund Q4 2025 Commentary. Institutional Class shares of the fund returned 1.97%, underperforming the S&P Global 1200 Information Technology Index benchmark, which returned 3.21%. Most technology subsectors for the fund generated positive absolute returns during the quarter, but softw...
Torsten Asmus/iStock via Getty Images The following segment was excerpted from the Columbia Global Technology Growth Fund Q4 2025 Commentary. Institutional Class shares of the fund returned 1.97%, underperforming the S&P Global 1200 Information Technology Index benchmark, which returned 3.21%. Most technology subsectors for the fund generated positive absolute returns during the quarter, but software generated negative absolute returns. An underweight to technology hardware, storage and peripherals proved to be a headwind during the quarter. Significant contributors and detractors included: Alphabet ( GOOGL ) delivered exceptional returns during the fourth quarter of 2025, with shares surging over 25% as the company reclaimed AI leadership through its groundbreaking Gemini 3 product family and reported its first-ever quarter with over $100 billion in revenue. The technology giant's November launch of Gemini 3 fundamentally shifted investor perception from viewing Google as an AI follower to recognizing it as an industry leader. Strong financial performance bolstered investor confidence, as did further evidence of AI-driven cloud demand from enterprise customers, including key contract wins from the Pentagon and AI pioneer Anthropic, committed to use up to one million of Alphabet's chips for AI development. Alphabet shares increased over 60% during 2025. Shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing ( TSM ) returned strong double digits during the quarter, as the world's leading semiconductor foundry received overwhelming validation of insatiable AI chip demand from key customers including NVIDIA and Apple. The company reported bullish quarterly financial results and increased its forward growth expectations, as exponentially growing AI token consumption requires continuous capacity expansion. Of note, at the end of the quarter the company announced that production had begun for its next-generation two-nanometer technology. Shares of TSM returned over 50% during 2025....
Australia appointed former energy regulator Anthea Harris as a new fuel czar to coordinate the response to price spikes and supply chain disruptions as a result of the war in the Middle East. “Australia is well-prepared, our fuel supply is currently secure, however I want us to be overprepared,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told reporters Thursday in Hobart. “We’re doing all that we can to secu...
Australia appointed former energy regulator Anthea Harris as a new fuel czar to coordinate the response to price spikes and supply chain disruptions as a result of the war in the Middle East. “Australia is well-prepared, our fuel supply is currently secure, however I want us to be overprepared,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told reporters Thursday in Hobart. “We’re doing all that we can to secure our fuel supply and get it to the places it’s needed.” Read More: Iran War Creates an Energy Crunch for Export Giant Australia With very little domestic refining capacity, Australia is reliant on imports for more than two-thirds of its fuel needs and Albanese’s government has been struggling to placate consumer concerns. Drivers are facing surging prices at the pump, while worries have mounted over potential shortages in rural regions — areas crucial to the mining and agriculture sectors. Strong demand, rather than any shortages, have spurred higher prices, Albanese said, following an emergency meeting of Australia’s National Cabinet, comprised of the prime minister and leaders of the country’s eight states and territories. Harris is a former Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Energy Regulator . “My message to Australians is please do not take more fuel than you need. That is how you can help,” Albanese said. Separately, an investigation has begun into allegations of anti-competitive conduct by the country’s major fuel suppliers, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said Thursday. “We recognize the widespread concerns held by consumers, businesses and farmers about fuel pricing and supply issues arising during the Middle Eastern conflict,” the commission’s chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb said in a statement. “It is important that fuel market participants and the community know that we are closely watching market conduct in relation to all fuels.” Prices of gasoline and diesel have both jumped since the Iran war began, according to Australian Institute of Pe...