Iran Fires Missiles At Israel In First Since April, After IDF Airstrike On Beirut; Trump Urges Israel To Hold Back

China's Rare-Earth Magnet Exports To US Plunge As Trump-Xi Meeting Looms Chinese President Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump are scheduled to meet in Washington on Thursday. UBS analysts quoted chief China economist Yu Song as saying the meeting between the leaders of the two global superpowers is largely about strategic stability and modest progress on tariffs, rare earths, and AI safety. Political risk analyst Marcus Bischoff expects no major breakthrough but says the most realistic outcome is continuity in US-China relations as the most likely outcome. He sees cautious grounds for...

Robinhood Lets Customers Use AI To Trade Stocks, Make Credit-Card Purchases Robinhood Markets is launching a new feature whereby customers can hand their money to an AI agent for automated trading and credit-card purchase decisions.  The brokerage is enabling users to link external AI agents-such as Anthropic’s Claude or coding agent Cursor-to a dedicated investment account. Within that account, the AI can access allocated funds and execute stock trades based on user instructions. Users can provide detailed prompts - directing the agent to identify investment opportunities by analyzing startup funding, deal activity,...

US Stock Futures Rise, Set For 8th Consecutive Week Of Gains US equity futures are higher into the long weekend, with the S&P 500 gaining for an 8th consecutive week higher, its longest streak of weekly wins since 2023 with sustained momentum in popular thematics, thanks to a liquidity boost, supportive macro readings, solid earnings and hopes that the US and Iran are moving closer to a peace deal, not to mention unrelenting enthusiasm for artificial intelligence which is fueling a historic gamma squeeze. As of 7:30am ET, S&P futures are 0.2%...