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Turkey's central bank on Thursday hiked interest rates by more than expected to 25% in bid to tame red-hot inflation.

Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy on Wednesday said he would not support additional aid to Ukraine and called it "disastrous."

Reports this year said the U.S. was considering new export restrictions to China of artificial intelligence-related chips, the likes of which Nvidia designs.

The Nasdaq is set for a higher open, supported by Nvidia's beat and stock pop that added more fuel to the AI trade

Here are some of the tickers on my radar for Thursday, Aug. 24, taken directly from my reporter's notebook.

The Roark deal ends more than five decades of private family ownership for Subway.

For younger first-time buyers, the small military city of Killeen, Texas, is considered the best place to buy a home.

The BRICS economic coalition of emerging markets has decided to extend membership invitations to six nations.

The chief of Russian mercenary group Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, is believed to have been killed in a plane crash, Russian state media reported Wednesday.

Russian aviation officials said Wednesday that Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was believed to have been killed in a plane crash.

The country's customs agency said this was to prevent radioactive contamination.

Australia's Qantas announced a record annual profit on Thursday, and announced a share buyback and a multi-billion dollar order for 24 new aircrafts.

Shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp, which manufactures all of Nvidia's advanced AI semiconductors climbed as much as 1.81%

The feat makes India the fourth country – after Russia, the U.S. and China – to land on the moon, and the first to land on one of the moon's lunar poles.

The return of Thaksin Shinawatra could mark the end of a chapter in Thai politics, even as some believe he will still be pulling the strings — albeit from behind.

Grab also pushed forward its breakeven target to the third quarter and said it expects 2023 revenue between $2.2 billion and $2.3 billion.

"A potentially strong remote worker could be a very different pick from a strong in-person worker," said Juliana Chan, founder of Wildtype Media.

China's economic challenges have given rise to deflationary pressures that present a "global concern" and are likely to accelerate in the coming quarters, economists have suggested.

Nvidia's prodigious cashflow contrasts with its top customers, which are spending heavily on AI hardware and building multi-million dollar AI models.

Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and John Eastman have already been booked and released, and former President Donald Trump said he will be arrested later this week.