The renewed trade war between the US and China, the world's two largest economies, has once again become a source of global uncertainty. US President Donald Trump on Friday <a href="https://oninvest.com/article/tramp-anonsiroval-vvedenie-dopolnitel-nyh-poslin-v-razmere-100-na-import-iz-kitaa">threatened to</a> impose additional duties of 100 percent on Chinese imports and tighten export controls on US software shipments. Before that, China imposed new restrictions on exports of its rare earth metals important to the US technology and defense sectors.

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This week, investors are likely to be left in the dark about a number of key US macroeconomic indicators - their publication has been postponed due to the government shutdown that has lasted for 13 days. Data - from import prices and retail sales to wages and jobless claims - are very likely to be excluded from the publication calendar, Yahoo Finance <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/stocks-dip-as-government-shutdown-continues-rare-earths-rally-what-to-watch-this-week-114600627.html#:~:text=In%20the%20week%20ahead%2C%20the%20market%20will%20continue%20to%20fly%20blind%20on%20several%20key%20points%20of%20economic%20data%20that%20would%20normally%20publish%20if%20not%20for%20the%20gridlock%20in%20Washington.%20Figures%20ranging%20from%20import%20prices%20and%20retail%20sales%20to%20hourly%20earnings%20and%20jobless%20claims%20are%20likely%20to%20be%20missing%20from%20the%20calendar.">writes</a>.<br><br>The main macroeconomic release this week for Wall Street was supposed to be the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for September in the U.S. The Bureau of Labor Statistics had planned to publish it on October 15, but <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-10/bls-to-publish-september-cpi-report-on-oct-24-despite-shutdown?sref=Y0jVLcFo">postponed</a> it to October 24. To work on it, the agency recalled some employees from vacation. If the report on inflation will be prepared on time, the Fed will receive it before its meeting on interest rates, which is scheduled for October 28-29, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-10/bls-to-publish-september-cpi-report-on-oct-24-despite-shutdown?sref=Y0jVLcFo">notes</a> Bloomberg.

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NVIDIA Corporation

This fall was marked by a flurry of news about the premier artificial intelligence developer, OpenAI. Who would have thought that a small nonprofit company founded in 2015 would command hundreds of billions of dollars 10 years later? Yet that's exactly what has happened to OpenAI - its CEO Sam Altman has not only driven its value to $500 billion, making it the world's most <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-now-worth-500-billion-195534705.html">expensive</a> startup, but he's also making deals that impact the stocks of major tech companies. However, what is he doing, in a strategic sense?

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