MP Materials Corp.

USA Rare Earth, Inc.

Energy Fuels Inc.

Shares of rare earth metals companies soared on Friday, October 10. MP Materials rose 15%, USA Rare Earth 19%, NioCorp Developments almost 14%, and uranium producer Energy Fuels more than 10%.

Rare earth stocks soar after Trump threatens China with higher tariffs

Trump's statement heralds "a new round of trade tensions between the world's two largest economies," Bloomberg notes

Trump threatened China with higher duties over rare earth metals

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

NVIDIA Corporation

Samsung shares hit an all-time high amid hype around artificial intelligence. SoftBank is increasing multi-billion dollar investments in OpenAI and robotics. China is tightening control over semiconductor imports and restricting purchases of Nvidia products. These and other topics - in our review of key events for the morning of October 10.

Main by morning: Samsung on the cusp, China tightens chip controls, SoftBank buys up AI

HSBC Holdings plc

The Bank will buy back its Hong Kong unit at a 30% premium to the market price

Shares in Europe's biggest bank collapsed by 6%. Why are investors not happy about the HSBC deal?

Alibaba Group Holding Limited

Meituan

JD.com, Inc.

September was extremely successful for the shares of Alibaba, one of the leaders of the Chinese e-commerce market. Quotes of the company's depositary receipts on the NYSE soared by more than 30%, and since the beginning of the year the company's capitalization has grown by more than 123%.

Alibaba, JD.com and Meituan are waging war in China. Which one should an investor bet on?

Intel Corporation

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

Reddit, Inc.

Pfizer Inc.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited

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: investors assess geopolitical risks

As communication technologies have evolved, wars over access to information have intensified around the globe, and the emergence of high-speed satellite Internet has brought this struggle to a new height in every sense. The constellation of low-orbit Starlink satellites created by Elon Musk's SpaceX company has suddenly become not just a convenient service, but a tool of geopolitics. The richest man on the planet is not shy about using it.

Space Carrot and Stick: How Satellite Internet Became a Political Weapon

The revaluation of Chinese assets is no longer due to politics but to improving fundamentals, investors say

China is no longer 'unfit for investment'. Why are investors coming back?

NIKE, Inc.

Carnival Corporation & plc

This week's key for Wall Street should be the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) employment report - if, of course, the agency itself will work, Barron's <a href="https://www.barrons.com/articles/government-shutdown-jobs-report-nike-carnival-stocks-earnings-39790566?mod=RTA#:~:text=This%20week%2C%20investors%20will%20get%20an%20update%20on%20the%20labor%20market%20when%20the%20Bureau%20of%20Labor%20Statistics%20releases%20the%20jobs%20report%20on%20Friday%E2%80%94assuming%20the%20BLS%20is%20open%20for%20business.">ironizes</a>. U.S. congressmen cannot agree on funding for government agencies, and if this cannot be done by the end of the month, many federal agencies will suspend operations on October 1.

US prepares for government shutdown: what investors need to know this week

Legacy Education Inc.

Organogenesis Holdings Inc.

Morning in New York: the key inflation indicator for the Fed will set the vector for quotations

Baidu, Inc.

Tencent Holdings Limited

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation

Cambricon Technologies Corporation Limited

Advances in the development of artificial intelligence and the production of proprietary chips for it have triggered a large-scale rally in the market of technology companies in China. But you should approach investments in the Chinese market with caution, experts warn: you never know where the wind from Beijing will blow.

The Great Chinese Technorally: What risks investors need to be aware of

Donald Trump said on Friday that in a phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping, they came close to approving a deal to sell the U.S. business TikTok to a group of investors from the U.S. "I just had a very productive call with Chairman Xi. We made progress on many important issues including (...) approval of the TikTok deal," Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/115231649861246548">wrote</a> on Truth Social. - The conversation was very good, we'll talk on the phone again, thank you for the TikTok approval, and we both look forward to meeting at [the international forum] APEC!"