This topic features **Trump's new $100,000 H-1B visa fee causing a scramble across corporate America and an anticipated $14bn annual bill for US employers, alongside debates on whether H-1B visas are good for US workers and companies rushing to issue emergency guidance**; it also covers Chicago pensions on the brink, young professionals voting for Zohran Mamdani in New York due to living costs, Trump's policies impacting America's schools, the question of whether US inflation will matter more than jobs, the Pentagon's new restrictions on reporter access, and Seattle grappling with fewer tech jobs.
This topic features Trump's claims about the Murdochs joining TikTok investors and a potential buyer group including Michael Dell and Larry Ellison, the ongoing legal battle over whether Amazon Prime is too hard to cancel for consumers, Chinese tech stocks surging past Nasdaq due to AI advance, China's ambitious 'Stargate' plan to challenge the US as an AI superpower, and the EU blocking Big Tech from a new financial data sharing system to protect digital sovereignty.
This topic features the UK, Canada, and Australia recognizing Palestine as an independent state, Starmer, Macron, and Trump preparing for high-stakes drama at the UN, China selling its security strategy to the world, Russia's sanctions evasion creating lasting costs, India's resilience against Trump's tariffs, Trump's tariffs on Switzerland prompting an identity crisis for the Swiss Army Knife, the EU's strategic opportunity in public anger towards Trump, and the potential for Benjamin Netanyahu to annex the West Bank.
This topic features **Saks's talks to sell 49% of Bergdorf Goodman for about $1 Billion, opinion on Mexican politicians potentially running cartels, Humana facing billions of dollars on the hook due to disconnected phone calls, Warburg Pincus looking to sell a business services firm for more than $3bn, slumping cardboard-box demand signaling bad news for the economy, warnings on fake air-bag parts causing fatalities, the adaptation of the Galápagos to Airbnb, Saudi Arabian miner Maaden's ambitious growth push, and Mexican football aiming for a better investment deal with Apollo**.
This topic features the UK government approving a second runway at Gatwick airport, Ed Davey appealing to business to help halt the rise of Reform UK, the unfortunate EU foot-dragging on the Draghi plan affecting competitiveness, matcha mania taking hold in UK cafes, the UK watchdog speeding up crypto approvals, **Germany's debate over affording its €1.35tn welfare state, and Britain's zombie universities needing creative destruction**.