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This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox.Happy Thursday. If you’re concerned about automation impacting your job, I’m sorry to say this story Xiaomi’s humanoid robot “interns” probably won’t ease those worries.Stock futures are lower this morning. The three major indexes are coming off a winning day.Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day:1. War powersSmoke rises from an unknown location in Tehran, Iran, on March 4, 2026, after U.S.-Israeli attacks.Morteza Nikoubazl | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesThe Senate blocked a resolution yesterday that would have required President Donald Trump…
Laurene Powell Jobs attends the Clinton Global Initiative 2024 Annual Meeting at New York Hilton Midtown on September 24, 2024 in New York City. John Nacion | Getty ImagesA version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high net worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox.Fears of an artificial intelligence bubble roiled the stock market in February, but investment firms of ultra-wealthy families still made bullish bets on high-flying AI startups. For instance, Laurene Powell Jobs’ investment and philanthropy firm Emerson Collective joined a…
Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, takes part in a deliberation with his fellow deputies from the delegation of Jiangsu Province at the fourth session of the 14th National People’s Congress in Beijing, capital of China, March 5, 2026. (Xinhua/Xie Huanchi)BEIJING, March 5 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday urged major provincial economies to redouble efforts to gain experience in analyzing new situations and solving new problems.Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the…
Blaze at Shanghai Plaza basement on City Saddar Road controlled after overnight operation by 50 firefightersA massive fire broke out at around 6:30pm on Wednesday in a warehouse located in the basement of a four-storey plaza in the busy and densely populated commercial hub of City Saddar Road in Rawalpindi, with the incident lasting more than 12 hours PHOTO: EXPRESS RAWALPINDI: A massive fire broke out at around 6:30pm on Wednesday in a basement warehouse in a four-storey plaza in the busy, densely populated commercial hub of City Saddar Road in Rawalpindi, lasting 12 hours. Firefighting operations by Rescue 1122…
Zoey Gong, a Chinese medicine food therapist, was days away from boarding an Emirates flight from Paris to Shanghai via Dubai, United Arab Emirates, when the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Saturday.Gong, 30, had her flight plans derailed as a result, and she told CNBC that she had to pay $1,600 to get to Shanghai, more than double the price of her original ticket.She’s one of millions of travelers swept up in war and other conflicts from Iran to Mexico this year, problems that are threatening the global tourism industry that’s worth an estimated $11.7 trillion to the world’s…
Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei speaks on an artificial intelligence panel during Inbound 2025 Powered by HubSpot at Moscone Center on in San Francisco, Sept. 4, 2025.Chance Yeh | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty ImagesDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision to label Anthropic a “Supply-Chain Risk to National Security” on Friday resulted in more questions than answers. “It’s all very puzzling,” Herbert Lin, a senior research scholar at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, told CNBC in an interview.Anthropic is the only American company ever to be publicly named a supply chain risk, as the designation has traditionally…
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks to the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, August 26, 2025. PHOTO: REUTERS SYDNEY: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Thursday that “military assets” had been deployed to the Middle East as a contingency plan. Countries have rushed to evacuate their citizens from the Middle East this week after US-Israeli strikes on Iran that killed its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and sparked a regional war. Albanese told the Australian parliament the government had sent six crisis response teams to the region. “And we’ve already deployed military assets as…
The war in Iran has caused oil prices to spike, prompting concerns about a resurgence of inflation. That has led Federal Reserve officials to raise the possibility that they may pause the Fed’s recent efforts to lower interest rates, or potentially even raise rates. But that is the Fed as it’s now known. The central bank is likely to soon have a new leader who sees inflation very differently. Kevin Warsh, if confirmed by the Senate, would almost certainly be comfortable lowering rates despite a spike in oil prices. Warsh is President Donald Trump’s nominee for the next chair of…
A Shahed-136 drone is displayed at a rally in western Tehran, Iran, on February 11, 2026.Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesIn the aftermath of the Israeli-U.S. strikes on Iran, American allies in the Persian Gulf are hearing a sound that Ukrainian soldiers have long come to dread: the foreboding hum of the Shahed-136 ‘kamikaze’ drone. Originating from Iran, the Shahed has already become a fixture of modern warfare, with Tehran’s strategic partner, Russia, utilizing the technology in its years-long invasion of Ukraine. Now, the drones — the most advanced of which is the long-ranged Shahed-136 — have become central to Iran’s retaliation…
‘Selective exceptions diminish credibility of global non-proliferation framework’, MOFA spokesperson Tahir Andrabi Pakistan has expressed concern over the long-term uranium supply agreement between Canada and India and potential cooperation on small modular reactors and advanced reactor technologies between the two sides, state broadcaster Radio Pakistan reported. In response to media queries, Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tahir Andrabi, said Pakistan reiterates that “civil nuclear cooperation must be governed by a non-discriminatory, criteria-based approach applicable equally to states that are not parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.” The spokesperson said selective exceptions diminish the credibility of the global non-proliferation framework…