WASHINGTON, March 23 (Reuters) – Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Thursday the United States was looking at ways to strengthen its sanctions against Iran, but acknowledged the sanctions had not resulted in the behavioral or policy changes Washington desires from Tehran.

TAIPEI, March 23 (Reuters) – Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said on Thursday that President Tsai Ing-wen’s meeting with U.S.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in the United States is still in the process of being arranged.

BRUSSELS, March 20 (Reuters) – European Union member states have agreed to supply one million rounds of artillery ammunition to Ukraine, Estonian Defence Minister Hanno Pevkur said on the sidelines of a meeting with his EU counterparts in Brussels on Monday.

BRUSSELS, March 20 (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp’s remedies to address European Union antitrust concerns over its $69 billion acquisition of Activision focus only on cloud gaming services, with no mention of rival Sony, people familiar with the matter said on Monday.

“Our commitment to grant long term 100% equal access to Call of Duty to Sony, Steam, NVIDIA and others preserves the deal’s benefits to gamers and developers and increases competition in the market,” a Microsoft spokesperson said.

March 27 (Reuters) – Nvidia Corp, the world’s leading designer of computer chips used in creating artificial intelligence, on Monday showed new research that explains how AI can be used to improve chip design.

Forward 12-month earnings estimates for semiconductor companies declined 28% from June of last year to January, the largest such downward revision in a decade, according to Stacy Rasgon, an analyst at Bernstein.

BEIJING, March 23 (Reuters) – China has never deliberately pursued a trade surplus with the United States, Shu Jueting, a commerce ministry spokesperson, said on Thursday, despite signs that China is continuing to reduce its reliance on American exports.

7 shows that exports to China increased by $2.4 billion on the year to hit a “record high” of $153.8 billion in 2022, that is an “empty statement”, according to a new report from the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE). It identifies inflation as primarily responsible for this figure.

March 23 (Reuters) – Wall Street was set to open higher on Thursday after the Federal Reserve hinted it was close to pausing interest rate hikes amid a turmoil in the banking sector that threatens to cause a severe economic downturn.

For me, the goal is financial freedom and offsetting the negative effects of inflation. This is particularly important in the current climate. Why do you think it’s important to invest? 
‘The motif behind investing can be different from person to person.

stock indexes tumbled more than 1% on Tuesday and the S&P 500 logged its biggest percentage decline in two weeks, after Powell told U.S. lawmakers the Fed would likely need to raise rates more than expected in response to strong data.

And even when they become good enough to be useful, they would have to be paired with powerful digital computers to operate, said Sivan. While quantum computers could potentially speed up some calculations millions of times faster than the fastest supercomputer, it is still uncertain when that would happen.

Nvidia is also partnering with AT&T Inc to make dispatching trucks more efficient, collaborating with quantum computing researchers to speed software development, and working with industry giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co to speed up chip development, Huang added.