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☆ Former Rep. Donna Edwards: Don't see how tariffs won't have a negative impact on American consumers
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-09 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailFormer Rep. Donna Edwards: Don't see how tariffs won't have a negative impact on American consumersMick Mulvaney, former White House chief of staff and Actum Strategic Advisors co-chair, and former U.S. Congresswoman Donna Edwards join 'Squawk Box' to discuss President-elect Trump's interview on NBC's Meet the Press, sweeping changes he plans to carry out in his second administration, changes to immigration policy, tariff threats, and more.

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☆ Post-Assad Syria will be a new challenge for America's Middle East strategy
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-09 | by ( Tom Porter | Thibault Spirlet | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Rebels toppled the Assad regime in Syria after a brutal 13-year civil war. "With the overthrow of Assad, Iran has been dealt a strategic blow, meeting overarching US objectives to diminish and dismantle Iran's so-called axis of resistance," she said. The US provided training and support for some rebel groups, notably Kurdish militias and moderate groups, but stopped short of direct involvement in the conflict. Both countries will likely act "swiftly" to strike favorable deals with emerging power brokers in Syria, he said. AdvertisementHowever, he said another risk is that Syria breaks into territories controlled by competing militias and warlords, which he said would turn Syria into a potential base for terrorist activities.

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☆ Trump has big plans at home, but Syria shows why he can’t escape the world’s problems
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-09 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Trump faces tightening web of US adversariesBut Trump has stiff challenges in Syria and beyond. Trump may have to quickly decide whether to maintain a deployment of hundreds of US troops in Syria to fight any resurgence of ISIS. And America’s problems with Russia, North Korea and Iran are compounded by the loose but expanding strategic synergy between the trio and China. And he announced the airstrikes by B-52 bombers, F-15 fighter jets and A-10 aircraft against ISIS targets in central Syria. McMaster, urged his old boss on Sunday to treat Iran, Russia, China and North Korea as different threads of the same challenge.

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☆ What is high bandwidth memory and why is the US trying to block China’s access to it?
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-08 | by ( Wayne Chang | Rosa De Acosta | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —The US government has imposed fresh export controls on the sale of high tech memory chips used in artificial intelligence (AI) applications to China. The rules apply to US-made high bandwidth memory (HBM) technology as well as foreign-produced ones. High bandwidth memory (HBM) are basically a stack of memory chips, small components that store data. Experts say the latest export restrictions will slow China’s development of AI chips and, at most stall, its access to HBM. Because AI applications require a lot of complex computing, such traits ensure that these applications run smoothly, without delays or glitches.

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☆ The US military struck 75 ISIS targets in Syria as Assad's government fell
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-08 | by ( Kenneth Niemeyer | Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The US military struck ISIS targets in Syria on Sunday as rebel groups toppled the government. President Joe Biden said US forces would remain in Syria to fight ISIS. AdvertisementThe US military said it carried out dozens of precision strikes against ISIS targets in central Syria on Sunday. AdvertisementUS Central Command, which oversees Middle East operations, said it struck ISIS leaders, operatives, and camps to prevent the terrorist group from rebuilding in central Syria amid the chaos. President Joe Biden, in a press briefing on Sunday, acknowledged that the US conducted airstrikes "targeting ISIS camps and ISIS operatives" inside Syria.

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Syrian rebels claimed to have seized a key southwestern city close to the border with Jordan as on Saturday they pressed on with a lightning-fast offensive that threatens to further destabilize a region already convulsed by war. "Once they get Homs, then really Damascus is cut off and they'll all be centered around Damascus and Latakia on the coast." But Hellyer said there was not yet a definitive outcome to the conflict despite the rebels' rapid advance. The collapse of government control in Daraa and the threat to Homs signals a growing vulnerability in Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s hold on power. The observatory says more than 820 people, including 111 civilians, have been killed across the country since the rebels began their offensive.

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☆ Syrian rebels say they are surrounding Damascus, threatening Assad's hold on power
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-07 | by ( Nathan Rennolds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A rebel commander said opposition forces had begun to encircle the Syrian capital, Damascus. Damascus is the seat of power for Syrian President Bashar Assad. Rebel forces have already seized the key cities of Aleppo and Hama and are advancing on Homs. AdvertisementAnti-government forces said Saturday they had begun to encircle Damascus, Syria's capital, threatening President Bashar Assad's hold on power. "Our forces have begun implementing the final phase of encircling the capital, Damascus," rebel commander Hassan Abdul-Ghani said in a post on social media.

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☆ Syrian rebels close in on Damascus, threatening Assad's hold on power
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-07 | by ( Nathan Rennolds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

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☆ Activist Starboard has a stake in Healthcare Realty Trust. Two paths to create value emerge
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-07 | by ( Kenneth Squire | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Healthcare Realty Trust (HR) is a real estate investment trust that owns and operates medical outpatient buildings located primarily on or around hospital campuses. On Feb. 28, 2022, the company entered into an agreement to merge with Healthcare Trust of America (HTA) in an approximately $18 billion deal. Nevertheless, Healthcare Realty is now at a critical inflection point, and there are two paths to unlocking value here. In 2018, a similar dual-path situation unfolded at Forest City Realty Trust. Healthcare Realty Trust is owned in the fund.

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☆ Distant wars waged by Israel and Russia changed Syria’s fortune. What comes next is impossible to know
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-07 | by ( Nick Paton Walsh | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

But the war of attrition has left Russia “incapable” of assisting Assad, even President-elect Donald Trump noted on Saturday. But this is one seized by Turkey, a NATO member which has dealt with the most fallout from Syria’s turmoil. Adem Altan/AFP/Getty ImagesThe unknowable impact of vast, fast change left Syria mired in half-policies and US inaction before. This may prove the swift and severe change that Syria needed to stabilize – a shaking of the carpet that leaves society smoother. Syria’s past 13 years have been so brutal it deserves exactly that.

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☆ GoFundWar: How Ukraine Is Crowdfunding Its Battle Against Russia
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-07 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +19 min

On April 27, 2023, Diana Kulyk's father told her he was leaving the next day to start training to fight Russia. Diana had already raised about $30,000 over the previous year to buy protective gear for childhood friends fighting in Ukraine. Diana's efforts are part of an immense crowdfunding movement helping fuel Ukraine's fight against Russia's far larger and more advanced military. Benjamin Jensen, a war-strategy expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, describes this crowdfunding as a "game changer." Before the war, Ruslan Kulyk was a pastry chef who made wedding cakes in Spain, where the family immigrated when Diana was young.

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HTS leader Abu Mohammad al-Jolani speaks to CNN in an interview. “When we talk about objectives, the goal of the revolution remains the overthrow of this regime. Then on Friday, streams of civilians have been seen fleeing Homs, ahead of potential hostilities between regime forces, and rebel forces who charged towards the city. Human rights warnings: Syria’s rebel fighters have a shared goal of crunching Assad’s dynastic grip on power. Human rights advocates also raised concerns over HTS’ recent treatment of political dissidents in Idlib, in northwestern Syria.

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☆ Ukraine just gave a first look at its new homemade Hell 'drone-missile' with more than twice the range of ATACMS
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

AdvertisementUkraine unveiled its new homemade hybrid "drone-missile" weapon on Friday. Ukraine revealed a new hybrid "drone-missile" weapon on Friday that Kyiv says has already been used in combat and will now enter mass production. Ukraine's new Peklo munition on display in Kyiv. AdvertisementThe Peklo is the latest addition to Ukraine's growing arsenal of domestically produced munitions, which includes a variety of long-range drones and cruise missiles. The munition appears to have a range of several hundred miles and resembles the Peklo.

Persons: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Zelenskyy, Biden, Genya SAVILOV Organizations: Army Tactical Missile Systems, EG, Kyiv, AFP, country's, Strategic Communication, Information Security, Ukraine's Armed Forces Locations: Ukraine, France, Russia, Kyiv, AFP Ukrainian

☆ China's cheap goods are threatening to undermine its influence in the developing world
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

AdvertisementChina is flooding the developing world with cheap goods. China's exports, meanwhile, are growing at a rate of around 12% in dollar terms year-on-year, according to October trade data, with 50% being sent to the developing world. Meanwhile, consumers in the developing world have benefited from the influx of affordable Chinese goods. As the economies of developing nations become woven more tightly with China's, the volume of cheap Chinese imports has increased. Yet the importance it places on its status as a manufacturing powerhouse, and the relative weakness of domestic Chinese demand, means the flow of cheap Chinese goods abroad is unlikely to let up anytime soon.

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☆ Abu Mohammad al-Jolani: How Syria’s rebel leader went from radical jihadist to a blazer-wearing ‘revolutionary’
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Mostafa Salem | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

His mission was to establish Al Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate, Jabhat Al Nusra. Sharaa is now commanding thousands of men in an armed rebellion threatening to topple the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. “This new formation has no relation to any external party,” he said at the time, distancing it from his radical Islamist past. It was also the start of Jolani’s gradual transformation from the classic anti-West jihadist, to a more palatable revolutionary. He conducted operations against ISIS including the 2023 high-profile killing of ISIS leader Abu Hussein Al-Husseini al-Qurashi.

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☆ Court upholds TikTok ban in US
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Kenneth Niemeyer | Dan Whateley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The case is likely to be appealed to the Supreme Court, and once in office, President-elect Trump may also intervene. A three-judge panel from the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled on Friday that a law designed to force a TikTok sale or ban is constitutional. After today's ruling, TikTok is likely to appeal the decision, and it may end up in front of the Supreme Court. If the Supreme Court upholds its constitutionality, TikTok may have a final savior in President-elect Donald Trump. Both strategies may be tough to defend against a legal challenge, particularly if the Supreme Court rules against TikTok.

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☆ Cramer: Musk-Trump bond fuels an 'alternative market of unreality' we can't ignore
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Matthew J. Belvedere | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Elon Musk is "controlling the agenda here" as President-elect Donald Trump 's policy proposals and administration picks start to take shape, Jim said. "There is an alternative market of unreality" in bitcoin and stocks tied to crypto, that cannot be ignored, Jim said on CNBC's " Squawk on the Street ." As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. THE ABOVE INVESTING CLUB INFORMATION IS SUBJECT TO OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND PRIVACY POLICY , TOGETHER WITH OUR DISCLAIMER . NO FIDUCIARY OBLIGATION OR DUTY EXISTS, OR IS CREATED, BY VIRTUE OF YOUR RECEIPT OF ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH THE INVESTING CLUB.

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☆ Russian embassy advises its citizens to leave Syria as rebels advance on strategic city of Homs
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Nathan Rennolds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

AdvertisementThe Russian embassy in Syria has advised Russian citizens to leave the country. It cited the "difficult military and political situation in Syria," a Russian ally. The Russian embassy in Syria has advised its citizens to leave the country "in the light of the difficult military and political situation." In a post on Telegram, the embassy said Russian nationals should leave on commercial flights through operating airports, adding that the embassy continues to operate "as usual." "Without a strong Russian military base in Syria, all of Putin's plans collapse," Riboua said.

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Syria CNN —The goal of Syria’s rebel coalition, as it wrests another major city from government control this week, is ultimately to overthrow authoritarian President Bashar al-Assad, according to Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the militant leader of the main group driving the country’s armed opposition. Syria’s opposition forces are decentralized and made up of different ideologies, albeit united by a common goal of upending the Assad regime. As CNN sat down to interview al-Jolani, news broke that forces under his command had captured the city of Hama. Al-Jolani told CNN that incidents of abuse in prisons “were not done under our orders or directions” and HTS had already held those involved accountable. “We are talking about a larger project – we are talking about building Syria,” Al-Jolani continued.

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The price of bitcoin soared past the long-awaited $100,000 benchmark for the first time ever late Wednesday evening. The appointment could fulfill Trump’s most important campaign promise to the crypto industry: to replace Gary Gensler, who has become something of a villain in crypto for the agency’s regulation-by-enforcement approach to the industry under his leadership. In recent years, however, the industry has demonstrated the value of bitcoin to much of the institutional investing world. Bitcoin had been widely expected to reach the landmark $100,000 level since the U.S. presidential election. However, excited investors sent bitcoin closer to this mark much sooner than initially anticipated; it rose as high as $99,849.99 on Nov. 22.

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☆ Fundstrat's Tom Lee thinks the bitcoin rally above $100,000 is a bullish signal for stocks
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-05 | by ( Pia Singh | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Bitcoin's rally to new heights signals even more momentum for a stock market that's also at all-time highs, according to Fundstrat's Tom Lee. "I don't think $100,000 is the ceiling." He told CNBC he was confident that the digital currency would top $100,000 before year-end. Last month, he called for a year-end stock market rally fueled by investor de-risking and "animal spirits" driving postelection gains, largely on hopes of greater deregulation. He's also said that small-cap stocks could get a boost from Federal Reserve interest rate cuts and Trump's business-friendly stances.

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☆ 'For 2025, reflation can certainly be an outcome' for the U.S., says strategist
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-05 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via Email'For 2025, reflation can certainly be an outcome' for the U.S., says strategistSalman Ahmed, global head of macro and strategic asset allocation at Fidelity International, discusses the U.S. economy and the outlook for further Fed rate cuts.

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☆ Former Green Beret rates 11 military explosion scenes
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-05 | by ( Ian Phillips | David Ibekwe | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Retired Green Beret David Harris rates portrayals of explosions in movies and TV shows. He talks about the effects of stun grenades in "The Town," starring Ben Affleck, Jeremy Renner, and Jon Hamm. David Harris served in the US Army for 20 years, including as a Special Forces weapons sergeant. He is the CEO of Harris Strategic Solutions, which provides tactical training to military and law enforcement members. Find out more about David Harris and Harris Strategic Solutions here:https://www.harrisstrategicsolutionsllc.com/about

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☆ Bitcoin will double to $200,000 by the end of 2025, says Standard Chartered
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-05 | by ( Hakyung Kim | In Hakyungkim | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

As the price of bitcoin surged above $100,000 for the first time late Wednesday, Standard Chartered believes the flagship cryptocurrency can to double by the end of next year. Analyst Geoff Kendrick said in a Thursday note that the firm's end-of-2025 price target on bitcoin around the $200,000 level is "achievable." MicroStrategy is running ahead of its USD 42bn three-year plan, so its purchases in 2025 should match or exceed its 2024 purchases." Bitcoin, which has surged more than 140% year to date, is up 48% since President-elect Donald Trump's victory in the Nov. 5 election. BTC.CM= YTD mountain Bitcoin prices in 2024 Kendrick noted that Standard Chartered expected bitcoin to rise to $100,000 by the end of 2024 back in April 2023 — when the digital currency was trading around the $27,000 level.

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☆ Syria's Assad can't count on Iran to stop the rebel offensive
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-05 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Since the early stages of Syria's bloody civil war that began in 2011, Iran has supported Syria's strongman president, Bashar Assad. Advancing in the face of Russian and Syrian airstrikes, they overran Syria's fourth-largest city, Hama, on Thursday. Earlier in the Syrian conflict, Iran helped orchestrate interventions on Assad's side by its powerful Lebanese proxy Hezbollah in 2013, and Russia in 2015. While Iran will undoubtedly remain committed to supporting Assad, it's unlikely to prove capable of organizing a 2016-style counteroffensive to recapture Aleppo. Century's Lund recalled that the last time Iran intervened to help Assad recapture Aleppo, it did so in close collaboration with Russia.

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