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Even though Chinese companies are making a name for themselves in the popular market for electric cars, both at home and abroad, many people in the world’s second-most populous country are ready to buy goods with foreign labels. For example, Liu Wenming, who lives in Shanghai, is ready to get more foreign goods for his stores all over China. It will be a great time for me to buy all over the country in March, April, and May. He told MarketWatch over the phone, “I’ll be at trade shows in Shanghai, Chengdu, Guangzhou, and Beijing.” Next year, China will be…

Palantir Technologies Inc. stock fell from a record high on Thursday, even though buyers have been putting a lot of money on the software company’s role in the growth of AI. Stock prices have gone up so much that even the most optimistic Wall Street analysts didn’t see this coming by a long shot.The company Palantir PLTR -0.29% makes software that helps the government and businesses use AI to look at a lot of data. Many people may call Nvidia Corp. NVDA -0.21% the AI leader because it has the most AI chips on the market. However, Palantir has been…

NEW YORK — Richard Parsons died Thursday. He was one of the most well-known Black leaders in corporate America and had top jobs at Time Warner and Citigroup. He was 76 years old. Parsons died at his home in Manhattan. He was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 2015 and cut back on work a few years later because of “unexpected complications” from the disease. The financial services company Lazard announced that Parsons had died. He had been on the board of directors for a long time. A lot of groups sent their condolences, including the NBA, where Parsons was temporary…

The house in Los Angeles where actress Brittany Murphy died was just put on the market for $18 million. It has been the subject of crazy conspiracy theories and scary tales. Murphy, who played Claire in “Clueless,” died in the house six years after she moved in. She was 32 years old. After five months, her husband Simon Monjack also died on the farm. pneumonia, anemia, and taking too many prescription drugs were named as the causes of Murphy’s death. Almost the same things were found to have caused her husband’s death. However, their deaths caused a lot of people…

There was an Azerbaijani airliner crash in Kazakhstan the day before. Now, flight experts say it was most likely hit by Russian air defense systems. The crash killed 38 of the 67 people on board. Here’s what we know about it: How did the plane go down? Wednesday, an Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 was on its way from Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, to Grozny, a city in Russia in the North Caucasus. However, it was moved for unknown reasons. It crashed as it tried to land in Aktau, Kazakhstan, after flying across the Caspian Sea to the east. Not…

Washington, D.C. Trump doesn’t think much of Joe Biden’s work in foreign affairs. The incoming Republican president often says that the outgoing Democratic president was a weak leader who hurt American reputation around the world during his four-year term. Biden, on the other hand, often said that his friends in other countries were sighing with relief that he had removed Trump from office in 2020. He then asked, as things turned out, very correctly, how long the return to long-held norms could be relied upon. Something funny happened on Trump’s way back to the White House, though: the national security…

Cathie Wood is still selling Tesla Inc. stock even though it is going up in value, but if you look at what her main ETF holds, you can see that the famous investor is becoming more and more optimistic about the electric car giant. Wood’s ARK Innovation ETF said it sold 13,040 Tesla shares TSLA -2.35% on Monday. At the end of the day, those shares were worth about $5.6 million. The ETF ARKK -0.21% has sold 214,031 shares worth a little more than $92 million so far in December. The stock is up 24.8% so far this month as…

Fix What I Have,Thanks for the recent piece that was very helpful in explaining how to invest in Treasury inflation-protected securities (TIPS). My wife and I have a lot of money saved up and put in Series I bonds. They are simple, which is a good thing, but it also has some bad points. It doesn’t worry me that I have to hold them for five years before I can leave without being punished. That being said, you are correct that each Social Security number can only invest $10,000 per year. Also, Series I bonds don’t trade on the open…

The Russian government has always been against bitcoin and has banned its use for domestic payments. However, they have lately started to see how virtual currencies could help people avoid U.S. and Western sanctions. Anton Siluanov, the Russian Finance Minister, talked on Russian TV on Wednesday about whether bitcoin BTCUSD -2.97% and other digital assets can be used to avoid U.S. restrictions on international transfers. Those ways “need to be developed and expanded,” and he said that they would be “next year.” A lot of people in Washington, D.C., think that cryptocurrencies are dangerous to the country’s security and make…

The heads of the Federal Reserve are all determined to stop the worst inflation in 40 years. They still want to reach their goal, but they can’t agree on how high to keep U.S. interest rates. Last week, the central bank cut interest rates for the third time this year. The vote was almost unanimous. Senior officials, on the other hand, seemed to be split into several groups over how much further to go in the next few years. One of the main points of disagreement is how hard the Federal Reserve should try to bring inflation down to its…