Intel Corporation

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited

On Friday, August 22, Intel officially <a href="https://newsroom.intel.com/corporate/intel-and-trump-administration-reach-historic-agreement">confirmed</a> that the U.S. government received 9.9% of the company and became its largest shareholder. Measures of this kind are usually taken in crisis situations, when the collapse threatens entire industries. This was the case, for example, with General Motors and Chrysler in 2009 - then the Obama administration bought their shares to <a href="https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-08-21/heres-why-you-dont-want-the-trump-administration-to-buy-stock-in-intel">save</a> 1.9 million jobs. Intel employs 96,000 people and <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/intel-is-cutting-more-jobs-ceo-tan-tries-fix-manufacturing-missteps-2025-07-24/">will</a> have 75,000 by the end of the year - a significant reduction, but not a national disaster. Yes, the computer giant has been making serious losses lately, but it has already raised $2 billion from Softbank and is now <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/20/intel-investors-equity-softbank-trump.html">looking for</a> other big investors. The point seems to be different: Intel is virtually the only U.S. company capable of producing state-of-the-art computer chips, and this production is exactly what the government does not want to lose.<br>

Intel's share went to the White House: what do U.S. officials fear losing? 

Micron Technology, Inc.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

The U.S. Commerce Department is pushing the idea of giving government subsidies to chipmakers in exchange for their stock, and Trump likes the idea, sources tell Reuters

Trump follows Intel stock by targeting stakes in Micron, TSMC and Samsung - Reuters

Tokyo Electron Limited

At this stage, large chip manufacturers with plants in the US are winning, but they cannot do without Japanese equipment

Trump's plans to impose 100% chip duties hit Japanese giants, TSMC on the plus side

NVIDIA Corporation

The US will impose duties of 100% on chip imports, Donald Trump has announced. However, he maintains that the levies will not apply to companies that have pledged to manufacture semiconductors in the US. Nvidia shares and TSMC securities fell as much as 1.5% at one point in the postmarket, but quickly recovered the losses. Intel shares jumped more than 3%.

Trump threatened 100% duties on chip imports. Intel shares jumped by 3%

The share of defect-free processors is still only 10%, although mass production is scheduled for the fourth quarter

Intel is having trouble creating a new chip. It is important to compete with TSMC

Tesla, Inc.

After weeks of uncertainty, the U.S. and the European Union reached a sweeping tariff agreement, removing the threat of an escalating trade war. Against this backdrop, futures on European indices, including the Euro Stoxx 50 and DAX, went up, and the euro strengthened. The oil market shows contradictory dynamics: despite the current deficit and stable prices around $70 per barrel, analysts warn of an impending oversupply in 2025-2026 due to production growth both within OPEC+ and outside the cartel. On these and other topics - in our review of key events for the morning of July 28.

Top story for the morning: the US has a trade deal with the EU, European futures are rising


Taiwan Semiconductor, the world's largest contract supplier of chips, reached a capitalization of $1 trillion thanks to growing demand for processors for artificial intelligence and revised forecasts. China ramped up rare earth shipments in June, but volumes are still far from pre-crisis levels. Trump's aides discussed terminating some SpaceX contracts, but recognized most of them as critical to the state. On these and other topics - in our review of key events for the morning of July 21.

Morning Highlights: TSMC passes $1 trillion, China boosts magnet exports by 2.5 times

Netflix, Inc.

Interactive Brokers Group, Inc.

Lucid Group, Inc.

Daily review and forecast of events on the U.S. stock market from Mikhail Denislamov, Deputy Director of Freedom Capital Markets Research.

Morning in New York: Fed gives dovish signal


Despite the forecast revision, TSMC still expects 2025 sales below consensus

TSMC has raised its revenue forecast. What does this mean for the bigtechs - from Meta to Google?

ASML Holding N.V.

ASML stock selloff could bring down the entire semiconductor sector

ASML beat earnings and order forecasts. Why is the stock falling?

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Despite the flood of news about duties, investors on Wall Street have already gotten comfortable with the so-called TACO strategy - betting that U.S. President Donald Trump will threaten duties but eventually back down and the stock markets will rebound from the decline, <a href="https://www.barrons.com/articles/wells-fargo-citi-netflix-j-j-and-more-stocks-to-watch-this-week-cebf9895?mod=RTA#:~:text=Despite%20a%20flurry%20of%20tariff%2Drelated%20headlines%2C%20investor%20reaction%20was%20muted%2C%20unlike%20in%20April%2C%20as%20Wall%20Street%20has%20become%20comfortable%20with%20the%20TACO%20trade.">writes</a> Barron's.&nbsp;Ahead is the new reporting season, which will test the S&amp;P 500's rally of the past three months.

US and EU inflation, bank earnings and TSMC: what investors need to know this week

Amazon.com, Inc.

Ford Motor Company

Daily review and forecast of events on the US stock market from&nbsp;Mikhail Denislamov, Deputy Director of Freedom Capital Markets Research.

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