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WSJ Minute Briefing

U.S. Strikes Flurry of Trade Deals

WSJ Minute Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Business News, News

3.6631 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Plus: China’s cybersecurity regulator summons Nvidia, citing chip-security issues. And, Shell announces a $3.5 billion share buyback, despite lower oil and gas prices. Azhar Sukri hosts. Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Here's your morning brief for Thursday, July 31st. I'm Azha Sukri for the Wall Street Journal.

0:23.8

Global stock markets and US futures are gaining after the US announced a flurry of trade deals overnight.

0:30.8

First among them is an agreement with South Korea that will see the US apply 15% tariffs on Korean goods, which includes South Korean-made cars.

0:41.0

Seoul has also agreed to invest $350 billion in the US, with some $200 billion pledged for chips,

0:49.2

nuclear power, batteries and biotechnology, while $150 billion are earmarked for shipbuilding. Commerce Secretary

0:57.0

Howard Lutnik has said new deals have also been agreed with Cambodia and Thailand. While we do not yet

1:03.4

know what was agreed with the Southeast Asian countries, we have learned that Malaysia is due to

1:08.9

announce a trade deal with Washington tomorrow.

1:12.0

China's cybersecurity regulator has summoned representatives of Invidia

1:16.4

to discuss the security risks of artificial intelligence chips it sells in the country.

1:22.0

Invidia said earlier this month that it could resume its H20 AI chip sales in China, months after the US Commerce Department

1:30.4

restricted those sales. So far, the news has not impacted Nvidia's stock, which gained

1:36.3

off hours following a rally in Meta and Microsoft shares off the back of their earnings.

1:41.9

Once the stock opens this morning, Microsoft is expected to match

1:45.5

Nvidia and reach the $4 trillion valuation mark. And British Energy Giant Shell said it would buy back

1:53.2

$3.5 billion of its shares despite lower oil and gas prices, as earnings fell less than expected in the second quarter.

2:02.6

Shell's announcement marks its 15th straight quarter of at least $3 billion in buybacks.

2:08.5

It comes ahead of US Energy majors Chevron and ExxonMobil, who report their second quarter results tomorrow.

2:15.9

And we have a lot more coverage off the day's news on the

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