US President Donald Trump looks on during a meeting with Prime Minister of Iraq Ali al-Zaidi in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on July 14, 2026. <\/p>\n
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Hello, this is Hui Jie writing to you from Singapore. Welcome to another edition of CNBC’s Daily Open.<\/p>\n
U.S. President Donald Trump walked back on his proposal for imposing fees on ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz, though the U.S. continued targeting Iran with fresh strikes.
Wall Street looked past geopolitics even as oil prices climbed on the back of lower-than-expected inflation figures that sent tech stocks higher.<\/p>\n
What you need to know today<\/p>\n It was TACO Tuesday in Washington, and Wall Street was all too happy to take a bite.<\/p>\n President Donald Trump took the toll road on Tuesday, before quickly finding the off ramp as he\u00a0reversed his announcement<\/a>\u00a0on collecting a fee from ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz, after anointing the U.S. as the “guardian angel” of the waterway.<\/p>\n The fee will now be paid by Gulf states in the form of investments in the U.S., he said.<\/p>\n Oil prices rose<\/a>\u00a0as Washington continued its strikes on Iran, but U.S. stock markets seemed to look past that development, as they have often done in the past.<\/p>\n All three U.S. stock indexes<\/a>\u00a0ended in positive territory, boosted by a cooler-than expected-inflation figure of 3.5%, with chip stocks boosting equity markets.<\/p>\n A notable outlier was IBM that\u00a0saw its worst day on record.<\/a>\u00a0The company’s shares tumbled 25% after it released preliminary second-quarter results that fell short of expectations.<\/p>\n Asia markets also tracked the gains on Wall Street, with most major markets up, while U.S. futures were also in positive territory.<\/p>\n Despite the lower growth in consumer prices, Federal Reserve chairman Kevin Warsh\u00a0talked tough on inflation<\/a>\u00a0in front of Congress, calling it an “unfair burden,” and reiterating his call for “regime change” at the central bank.<\/p>\n “It has been a tax on the American people and businesses. We plan on getting rid of that tax,” he said. “That means we need a regime change in policy, and we need new consideration of practices, some of which have been working, some of which haven’t.”<\/p>\n Separately, Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security Jeffery Kessler said to Congress that “very few” of\u00a0Nvidia’s<\/a>\u00a0H200\u00a0artificial intelligence<\/a>\u00a0chips have been\u00a0shipped to China and Hong Kong<\/a>.<\/p>\n That could be a sign that H200 shipments to China have restarted, potentially boosting Nvidia’s sales. Since last year, Nvidia has excluded any potential Chinese AI chip revenue from its forecasts.<\/p>\n In Asia, investors will look out for key economic data from China later in the day, including its second-quarter GDP, retail sales and investment numbers.<\/p>\n \u2014 Lim Hui Jie<\/p>\n And finally…<\/p>\n Warren Buffett is accelerating his charitable donations with aim to give away Berkshire wealth by 2034<\/a><\/p>\n Warren Buffett is speeding up the pace of his annual donations of Berkshire Hathaway shares to four family foundations, giving them a total of almost $6 billion now.<\/p>\n In a\u00a0news release<\/a>\u00a0this morning, Buffett says, “My goal is to dispose of all of my Berkshire shares within about eight years.”<\/p>\n CNBC’s\u00a0Becky Quick is sitting down with Buffett in Omaha and CNBC will bring you that interview starting at 6 am ET tomorrow (Wednesday) on “Squawk Box.<\/a>”\u00a0<\/p>\n Buffett, who will be celebrating his 96th birthday next month, now owns stock in the company with a market value of more than $140 billion.<\/p>\n \u2014 Alex Crippen<\/p>\n