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Trump is threatening fresh tariffs on the European Union after Brussels floated the idea of granting Canada associate membership in the bloc. The White House called it a hostile act, and the threat lands at a sensitive moment for transatlantic trade negotiations, adding a new front to an already crowded tariff landscape.
Shifting to equities, Nvidia's latest quarterly filing reveals a striking geographic concentration — twenty-seven billion dollars in second-quarter revenue billed to customers headquartered in Taiwan, up from eight point nine billion a year earlier. That's more than a quarter of total revenue, raising legitimate questions about supply chain exposure and geopolitical risk for shareholders watching the AI buildout closely.
And speaking of that buildout, the nuclear power trade remains very much in play. Constellation Energy holds the largest nuclear fleet in the country and has locked in long-term power agreements with Microsoft and Meta, putting it squarely in competition with Vistra and Talen Energy as hyperscalers race to secure always-on, carbon-light electricity for their data centers. The market is watching which of these names has the most durable contract structure.
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