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On today's podcast:

(1) Nvidia’s surge to an all-time high is the biggest single-session increase in market value in history, besting Meta’s historic gain just three weeks ago.

(2) Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers is warning that financial markets are underestimating the risks of political and social turmoil around the world.

(3) Three top Federal Reserve officials hammered home the message Thursday that the US central bank is still on track to cut interest rates this year — just not anytime soon.

(4) Russia is steadily expanding its influence across Africa with arms sales, Kremlin-sponsored beauty pageants and more recently -- free grain.

(5) House of Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle faced growing calls from Conservative and Scottish National Party politicians to resign over the chaotic scenes in Parliament

(6) For the first time since 1972, the US is back on the moon. 

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The British government is woefully incompetent, says Burnbrae Chairman Jim Mellon. But of course that doesn’t mean you can’t buy UK equities. Mellon tells Merryn Somerset Webb on this week’s Merryn Talks Money that fossil fuel giants Shell and BP are good long-term investments, as are British defense stocks and financial services companies. 

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