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China talks up oil sufficiency as Trump seeks Beijing's help on securing Hormuz energy route

The statistics bureau said that China's energy supply is "relatively strong," while announcing an uptick in domestic production.

China's factory output and consumption beat forecasts, while property investment contraction slows

Beijing tamped down its GDP growth target this year to a range of 4.5% to 5%, the least ambitious goal on record going back to the early 1990s.

Bitcoin beat the S&P 500, Nasdaq Composite and gold since the start of the Iran war

ProShares' Simeon Hyman is highlighting a bullish bitcoin trend.

Dividend stocks are catching up to tech stocks on a key earnings metric at a critical time for the market

Dividend stocks are closing the earnings growth gap with tech stocks, a reason for investors seeking safety in a volatile market to favor income opportunities.

Inside JPMorgan Chase's push to become the startup world’s new Silicon Valley Bank

For JPMorgan Chase, winning the niche of startup banking from rivals is about more than just gaining deposits: It's a bet to future-proof the largest U.S. bank.

Markets hopes for Fed interest rate cuts are rapidly fading away

As both energy prices and inflation fears pop higher, expectations for cuts are sliding lower.

Lobster buffet: China’s tech firms feast on OpenClaw as companies race to deploy AI agents

China-based usage of OpenClaw has already topped that of the U.S., while driving demand for Chinese lower-cost AI models.

JPMorgan Chase reins in lending to private credit firms after marking down software loans

JPMorgan's move shows that the biggest U.S. bank by assets wants to get ahead of potential turbulence involving private credit loans to software companies.

Surging oil prices could wipe out benefits from Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’

Estimates from Wall Street project that if oil prices stay elevated for too long, consumers will lose as much as they gain from the new tax law.

There's another energy market that may get hit harder than oil by Strait of Hormuz closure

Roughly 20% of global LNG flows through the Strait.

Why China can withstand oil's surge past $100 more easily than other countries

The latest Middle East tensions sheds light on how the world's three largest oil consumers have taken different approaches to energy, with global consequences.

China says 'thorough preparations' needed as Trump-Xi meeting hangs in the balance amid Iran war

China's top diplomat Wang Yi signaled preparations are underway for a planned meeting between the presidents of the U.S. and China.
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