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The U.S. trade deficit widened in December, recording one of the largest deficits since 1960 for the entire yearChip startup Taalas raises $169 million to develop AI chips to challenge NVIDIABarclays Survey: Google's Bond Issuance This Year Expected to Lead Among Major Cloud Service ProvidersNVIDIA's Q4 earnings report is about to be released, and Oppenheimer expects it to exceed market expectations, reiterating its "outperform" ratingMeta partners with NVIDIA to expand long-term artificial intelligence developmentFederal Reserve official Kashkari criticizes Hasset's criticism of the New York Fed's tariff analysis, which may undermine its independenceConcerns about technology stocks have eased, and the stock markets in Japan and South Korea opened higher and continued to rise, with Samsung Electronics up 5%. The yen weakened to 154, and rising geopolitical tensions pushed up gold and oil pricesU.S. Senator Warren demands Powell and Bostic commit to not bailing out cryptocurrenciesAmazon surpasses Walmart to become the world's top revenue earnerThe labor market remains resilient! The number of initial jobless claims in the U.S. unexpectedly fell to a new low in over a month last weekHedging while riding the AI wave! The U.S. utility sector has transformed from "dull blue chips" into an investment darling