The TACO trade concept has proven effective during trade wars, but may not work when transferred to geopolitics

Betting on TACO: can Trump's "concessions" be capitalized on?

Alibaba Group Holding Limited

Penguin Solutions, Inc.

Globalstar, Inc.

Ready Capital Corporation

Amazon.com, 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: the rebound is losing steam

Netflix, Inc.

Oracle Corporation

Seagate Technology Holdings plc

Futures on U.S. stock indices and shares of the Asia-Pacific region collapsed amid a rally in oil prices The cost of Mark Brent at one point exceeded $100 per barrel. Donald Trump's administration has launched trade investigations against China, the EU and more than a dozen other economies, preparing the legal basis for new duties. Netflix is going to buy Ben Affleck's AI company, Bloomberg sources have learned. About these and other topics - in our review of key events for the morning of March 12.

SoftBank Corp.

Anthropic intends to challenge the US authorities' decision to deem the company a "supply chain risk," which effectively excludes its Claude models from defense contracts. Oracle is preparing to lay off thousands of employees to offset the cost of building data centers for AI workloads. On these and other topics - in our roundup of key events for the morning of March 6.

Main by morning: Anthropic wants to sue Pentagon, cuts to Oracle

NVIDIA Corporation

Broadcom Inc.

OpenAI has increased annual revenue to more than $25 billion and is expanding aggressively in the enterprise market, competing with Anthropic and Google. Broadcom expects AI chip sales to exceed $100 billion by 2027. On these and other topics - in our review of key events by the morning of March 5.

Highlights for this morning: new Anthropic and Pentagon talks, $25 billion in OpenAI revenue

Scott Bessent, head of the ministry, predicted a return to previous, high duties within five months

U.S. duties will increase under Trump's decision to 15% this week - U.S. Treasury Department

A key concern for U.S. assets is the risk associated with a weaker dollar against the euro, the investment bank said

UBS dropped its recommendation to buy U.S. stocks. What worries the bank?

Paramount Group, Inc.

Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.

Donald Trump praised the duties in an address to the nation and said he would not allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons. US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth demanded that Anthropic give the military full access to AI models under threat of recognizing the company as a "supply chain risk" or using emergency powers. On these and other topics - in our review of key events by the morning of February 25.

Main by morning: Trump praises duties, bids for Warner Bros. go up

The market is underestimating the risks of hard-to-predict extreme events that could bring down quotations in the IT sector, economist Nassim Taleb said

Black Swan author predicts mass bankruptcies in the software sector

International Business Machines Corporation

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.

Microsoft Corporation

Walmart Inc.

One of the blows to the market came from a Citrini Research report claiming that the AI boom could unleash unemployment as high as 10%

A new wave of soft-apocalypse and fears over duties: US indices lost more than 1%

Tesla, Inc.

Ares Management Corporation

KKR & Co. Inc.

Eli Lilly and Company

"You can't bet against Trump, if he wants to impose duties, he'll find a way to do it," the analyst believes

US stocks decline amid Trump's 'confusion' over duties

The European Union has warned of its readiness to freeze the ratification process of the trade agreement with the United States and asked the administration of US President Donald Trump for further clarification on America's new duty policy, Bloomberg <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-23/eu-set-to-freeze-us-trade-deal-approval-over-trump-tariff-risk">writes</a>.

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