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Business and Finance Weekly — 13 episodes

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Musk on OpenAI: "you just can’t steal a charity", Iran war brings petroyuan, Google Cloud surges, Spirit Airlines shuts down, UAE leaves OPEC, biotech M&A cycle, Tesla Semi truck, SoftBank's Roze IPO

2

Intel surges due to AI inference, Google's $40B to Anthropic, Meta to layoff 10%, Justin Sun sues Trump's WLF, Duke Energy's $103B plan, China restricts US capital on AI, DeepSeek uses Huawei chips

3

CDS to hedge private credit, Pentagon to use Google AI, GM, Ford & Oshkosh, DeepSeek to raise $300M, Live Nation monopoly, commodity currencies surge, Cartes Bancaires for EU, Schroders sold to Nuveen

4

TSMC surges, Intel-Google on AI-optimized CPUs, Lockheed Martin's $4.76B, AOMC to merge with Odyssey Marine, SiFive raised $400M, $4B for Rapidus, Indian generic weight-loss drug, Meta-CoreWeave $21B

5

Gulf pressured to buy drones from Powerus backed by Trump's sons, SpaceX IPO, S Korea's export record, US to block Chinese chipmaking, McCormick M&A, Sakura Internet surges, Starbucks Boyu deal

6

Decline of the petrodollar due to Iran war, OpenAI's liquidity crisis, SpaceX IPO, "game-changing" jury verdict in social media, Bank of America settles Epstein scandal, Iran war threatens AI bubble

7

US money market fund new record, Jerome Powell remains, Chubb war-risk coverage for Strait of Hormuz, Elon Musk misled Twitter shareholders, Super Micro Computer plunged 33%, Paraguay leans toward US

8

Soft collapse in private credit, Meta 20% layoff, Iran war escalation, JPMorgan Chase expands in Silicon Valley, Trump $10 billion fee of TikTok deal, Spain's amnesty to immigrants

9

Oil price surges after Iran war, S Korean stock plunged, unemployment rate rose in US, defense-tech stocks soar, Venezuela deal, private equity crisis, shortage of data storage

10

Iran war causes oil and gold surges, global M&A boom, Block cuts 40% jobs, OpenAI’s $110 billion funding, Warner Bros deal

11

Trump's new tariff after Supreme Court ruling, EU safety mechanisms with Mercosur, Seedance 2.0 AI video shock, UK entrepreneurs exodus, geothermal energy revolution

12

Global nuclear energy renaissance, OPEC+ oil expansion, a new Berlin-Rome axis to reduce bureaucracy, prediction markets grow, Google's 100-year bond, and record natural gas delivery

13

SaaS stocks crash, bitcoin plunges, trade deals, and U.S.–China competition in Latin America