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Xi Jinping’s U-turn on tech

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Fortune

Tech Rally Helps Hong Kong Lead Asian Markets Higher

Hong Kong resumed its tech-led rally on a healthy day for Asian markets Tuesday as a meeting between President Xi Jinping and China's top business leaders fanned hopes that a years-long crackdown on the private sector is coming to an end.

International Business Times

Big Short Investor Michael Burry Reduced Stake in Chinese Tech Giants Before £1T DeepSeek Rally

Michael Burry trimmed his stake significantly in Alibaba Group Holdings and JD.com in Q4 2024 due to prolonged volatility in China's stock markets before the DeepSeek AI rollout.

International Business Times UK

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China's Xi promises policy stability at meeting with business leaders, including Alibaba's Jack Ma

China’s President Xi Jinping has met with private sector business leaders, offering them assurances that policies regarding the private sector would not change, state media reported

The Independent UK

Option Volatility And Earnings Report For February 17 - 21

Earnings season is starting to slow down now, but we still have some important companies reporting this week. These include Walmart, Alibaba, Baidu, Carvana, Occidental Petroleum and Arista Networks.

Barchart

Xi Jinping tells Alibaba’s Jack Ma and Chinese tech chiefs to ‘show their talent’

Analysts say address to symposium suggests crackdown on sector may be ending in effort to tackle economic slump

The Guardian - UK

European defence stocks rise by €18bn to record high ahead of Ukraine peace talks – as it happened

Shares in BAE Systems, Rheinmetall and Saab soar, as Keir Starmer offers to put British ‘boots on the ground’ in Ukraine

The Guardian - UK

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Most Asian Markets Start Week On Positive Note

Asian markets mostly rose Monday as investors assessed the global economic outlook while Donald Trump pushes ahead with his trade war.

International Business Times

Stocks Shake off Weak Retail Sales Report due to Lower US Bond Yields

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is up +0.12%, the Dow Jones Industrials Index ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is down -0.12%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is up +0.21%. March E-mini S&P futures (ESH25 ) are up +0.09%, and March E-mini Nasdaq futures...

Barchart

Stocks Little Changed after Weak Retail Sales Report and Drone Strike on Chernobyl

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is up +0.10%, the Dow Jones Industrials Index ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is unchanged, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is down -0.05%. March E-mini S&P futures (ESH25 ) are unchanged, and March E-mini Nasdaq futures (NQH25 )...

Barchart

Most Asian Stocks Rise As US Tariff Delays Give Breathing Space

The president has unveiled a range of hardball measures to bring an end to what he says is years of countries taking advantage of the United States, fuelling trade war fears and leading to warnings of another inflation spike.

Latin Times

Apple will reportedly collaborate with Alibaba to release ‘censored’ AI in China

iPhone maker has suffered declining sales in the country due to growing competition from local brands

The Independent UK

Alibaba Shares Soar On Reports Of Potential Xi Meeting With Jack Ma

Alibaba shares soared by more than six percent on Friday following reports that Chinese President Xi Jinping was poised to meet with the tech juggernaut's co-founder Jack Ma. Alibaba, which has already surged more than 40 percent in 2025, piled on 6.3 percent after also being given an extra leg-up…

International Business Times

Baidu shares pop after it makes ERNIE, its flagship AI model, free in a bid to catch up to its competition

Baidu’s ambitious play could intensify an ongoing price war in China’s competitive AI sector.

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The Conversation

DeepSeek: how China’s embrace of open-source AI caused a geopolitical earthquake

We are in the early days of a seismic shift in the global AI industry. DeepSeek, a previously little-known Chinese artificial intelligence company, has produced a “game changing”“ large language model that promises to reshape the AI landscape almost overnight.

Barchart

3 Tech Stocks to Buy Hand Over Fist for a DeepSeek ‘Bull Market’

Here are three tech stocks to load up on now as China’s tech sector enters a fresh bull market fueled by DeepSeek’s breakthrough.

Fortune

Baidu CEO defends heavy AI investments as competition heats up and Apple reportedly looks elsewhere

“When technology still evolves at such a rapid rate, you just cannot stop investing,” CEO Robin Li said in Dubai on Tuesday.

TechRadar

Apple is reportedly partnering with Alibaba in China for AI features, and it makes sense after DeepSeek

Apple might be partnering with Alibaba for Chinese AI iPhone features.

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Smaller countries may ‘have to choose’ between the U.S. and China, warns author Robert Kaplan

“For decades, countries like Singapore and Australia and others were able to essentially get rich off China, and be protected by the U.S. Navy,” Kaplan explained. “They didn’t have to choose.”

MarketBeat

How Alibaba Stock Could Defy Trade Tariffs and Surge Higher

Investors are concerned about whether Alibaba stock can continue rising amid recent trade tariffs on Chinese goods exports.

Barchart

This Dividend-Paying AI Stock Is a Buy Despite the U.S.-China Trade War

The U.S. and China are in a standoff over tariffs, but this major Chinese tech stock is still a good company to invest in.

The Guardian - AU

The Chinese AI companies that could match DeepSeek’s impact

DeepSeek roiled global markets and shocked Silicon Valley, but it’s just one of a raft of Chinese AI companies that could challenge US dominance

Tom’s Guide

Alibaba announces Qwen 2.5-Max to fight DeepSeek — what to know

Days after DeepSeek took the internet by storm, Chinese tech company Alibaba announced Qwen 2.5-Max, the latest of its LLM series.

International Business Times UK

Qwen 2.5 and DeepSeek R1 Keep US AI Firms in a Limbo as Stock Prices Struggle To Bounce Back

US tech companies are scrambling to enhance their AI models amid the rise of cost-effective Chinese alternatives with similar computing power.

Geekflare

Geekflare’s This Week in Business Tech: AI Domination, Jira Updates, & More

The past week has been all about AI as the Chinese startup DeepSeek shocked the entire world with its latest R1 model, Alibaba launched its new AI model,

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