- Investor's Business Daily
Dow Jones Futures: Nvidia, AMD Rise After CEOs Tout AI Chip Roadmaps
Futures loom after the stock market showed resilience Friday. Nvidia CEO Huang made a big AI speech Sunday. Tesla EV rivals stepped up sales.
- AFP
Mbappe, Griezmann absent from initial France Olympic team list
Kylian Mbappe and Antoine Griezmann were on Monday left off the preliminary list of 25 players called up by hosts France for the Olympic Games football tournament."I have to give a fairly realistic list, even if I know that it is virtual," said France Olympic football coach Thierry Henry, before adding that he was "still hoping" to be able to call upon Mbappe during the Olympic tournament.
- Reuters
Analysis-Mexico's next president will have to boost tax take to pay for social programs
Mexican president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum will face the unenviable task of making good on campaign promises to boost social programs even after an election-year spending binge by her predecessor lifted the budget deficit to its highest since the 1980s. After winning investors' confidence with tight spending policies for most of his term, leftist President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador loosened the purse strings in his final year in office to finish flagship infrastructure projects and cover a surge in welfare programs for Mexico's poor. Those moves will force Sheinbaum's incoming administration to either hold the line on spending, or risk a hit to Mexico's creditworthiness.
