What this materials more means for the rest of the world. The consensus is that will be damaging not fatal for the United States. The reason china dominate the market is not because it is the only place where gallium and germanium exists, but because it is by far the cheapest place you can get them from. You dontjust dig them up from the ground, they are derived from a more complicated Reduction Process and china has that capability. So governments and businesses will have to rely on cheaper substitutes and alternative sources. It means prices will go up, it means some products might be less effective and some production right be delayed. 50 some production right be delayed some production right be dela ed. , delayed. So this sort of poses a bit of an delayed. So this sort of poses a bit of an existential delayed. So this sort of poses a bit of an existential thread i a bit of an existential thread for western industry. Finding a place for western industry. Finding a place for for west
The little of february. The nikkei 225, stronger by. 25 . We did have the first day of the fiscal year for japan. We are seeing investors at the start of this week doing profittaking, particularly when it comes to the performers. We are seeing broad upside as the nikkei comes online. Watching those chip stocks. We had news of further investment from the governor government, looking to make those two nanometer chips. That would be a significant uplift when it comes to those chip and ai and tech related names. Topics moderately higher at this point. Dollaryen trading at the 151 level. 152 is potentially where we see intervention. Of course, new year, same old issues when it comes to the battle between the dollaryen. The same old currency problem confronting traders and the government. There will be Big Questions as to how the intervention will play out, and how long it potentially can last, given we know currency intervention does not tend to be longlasting. Even if it is heavyhanded. In
If its twisted im good to go. Liz good to see you. Thank you so much. Breaking news on this monday we could be 59 minutes away from finally finding out if cbs news, mtv and paramount plus maybe are a step closer to a new owner, paramount that controls the entertainment names and so much more reports earnings after the bell and months of speculation it appears there is a rush to make some kind of announcement involving sale to the spy dance. Three to half those are still well off annual highs when you look at it at 12. 33. The annual high 24, will common shareholders be left holding the bag or is a better deal the works . Charlie gasparino is working the phones. He will come up in just a few minutes. After a riproaring week with s p and nasdaq enjoyed the best performance this entire year we have stocks back at the green on this monday, Dow Jones Industrial 79 points, the s p gaining about three lets say the nasdaq will come ten points to the upside, the russell 2000 up 11 points. To th
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