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En este episodio cubrimos los eventos más importantes antes de la apertura del mercado: • Wall Street se mantiene estable antes del reporte clave de Nvidia: Futuros con leves movimientos: $SPX +0.1%, $US100 +0.1%, $INDU plano. El rendimiento del bono a 10 años sube a 4.47%, mientras el de 2 años baja a 3.97%. Ayer, el mercado celebró el retraso de aranceles de Trump y un sólido dato de confianza del consumidor (87.1). Hoy el foco está en las minutas del FOMC, el índice manufacturero de Richmond (-9 esperado) y las ganancias de $NVDA. • Nvidia reporta hoy en el evento más esperado de la temporada: $NVDA publicará sus resultados tras el cierre. Aunque se anticipa un nuevo beat en ingresos y EPS, el enfoque estará en márgenes, guía y exposición a China. La empresa prevé una provisión de $5.5B por restricciones a los chips H20. Al alza, destacan sus nuevos acuerdos en Medio Oriente. Las opciones descuentan un movimiento de ±7%. Cotiza en $135, plano en 2025. • GameStop apuesta por Bitcoin como reserva de tesorería: $GME sube +3.8% premarket tras comprar 4,710 BTC (~$513M). La compañía ahora incluye Bitcoin en su balance, siguiendo los pasos de $MSTR, $TSLA y $CLSK. Al cierre del Q1 tenía $4.76B en efectivo. La acción cotiza en $36.22 con un short interest de 10.9%. • Robinhood lanza plataforma Legend en Reino Unido: $HOOD presentó “Robinhood Legend”, su plataforma avanzada de trading para usuarios británicos activos. Incluye gráficos técnicos, datos en tiempo real y herramientas personalizables. Llega tras introducir opciones y como antesala al lanzamiento de cuentas ISA sin comisión. Busca captar parte del mercado desktop del Reino Unido (11 millones de traders activos). Una jornada de expectativa tecnológica y apuestas por nuevas clases de activos. ¡No te lo pierdas!

En este episodio cubrimos los eventos más relevantes antes de la apertura del mercado: • Wall Street sube por pausa arancelaria de Trump: Futuros al alza: $SPX +1.6%, $US100 +1.7%, $INDU +1.4%. Trump retrasa aranceles del 50% a la UE hasta el 9 de julio, lo que alivia el sentimiento del mercado tras una semana negativa. Hoy se publican pedidos de bienes duraderos de abril (estimado: -7.6%) y núcleo (-0.1%), además de la confianza del consumidor de mayo (previsto: 87.1). También se esperan los precios de viviendas S&P Case-Shiller y FHFA. Atentos al reporte de $NVDA este miércoles. • Tesla se desploma en Europa: $TSLA vendió solo 7,261 vehículos eléctricos en abril en Europa (-49% YoY), mientras el sector creció 34.1%. La marca pierde terreno por la controversia política de Musk, el auge de los híbridos (35% del mercado) y la competencia feroz de BYD y otros fabricantes. A pesar de ello, las acciones suben +2.7% premarket. • WeRide acelera en Medio Oriente: $WRD anunció su expansión a Arabia Saudita, con planes de lanzar robotaxis en Riad y AlUla en alianza con la Autoridad General de Transporte. La operación se integrará a la app de $UBER y se espera el despliegue completo para fines de 2025. La empresa también amplía su red a 15 ciudades más junto a $UBER en los próximos cinco años. $WRD +5.7% premarket a $9.63. • AstraZeneca avanza con Imfinzi en cáncer de vejiga: $AZN recibió respaldo positivo del panel de la EMA para su inmunoterapia Imfinzi en combinación con quimioterapia para tratar el MIBC resecable. El estudio fase 3 NIAGARA mostró beneficios en supervivencia libre de eventos y general. Se espera la decisión final de la Comisión Europea. Una jornada con alivio geopolítico, expansión tecnológica y avances farmacéuticos. ¡No te lo pierdas!

En este episodio cubrimos los eventos más importantes antes de la apertura del mercado: • Wall Street cierra semana con cautela fiscal: Futuros a la baja: $SPX -0.1%, $US100 -0.1%, $INDU -0.2%. Rendimientos estables: bono a 10 años en 4.53%, bono a 2 años en 4%. El mercado digiere los efectos del nuevo plan fiscal de Trump sobre el déficit. Persisten las dudas pese a la aprobación en la Cámara. Atención hoy en las ventas de viviendas nuevas (esperadas: 694K). Lunes cerrado por Memorial Day. • Trump prepara impulso para el sector nuclear: Según Reuters, Trump firmaría hoy órdenes ejecutivas para declarar emergencia nacional por dependencia de uranio ruso y chino. Invocaría la Defense Production Act para agilizar proyectos nucleares, aprobar nuevos reactores y usar financiamiento del Departamento de Energía. Las acciones del sector subieron en el aftermarket. • Wall Street explora su propia stablecoin: $JPM, $BAC, $C y $WFC analizan lanzar una stablecoin conjunta a través de Early Warning y Clearing House. El proyecto depende del marco legislativo, donde esta semana el Senado avanzó con el GENIUS Act 2025. El proyecto exige reservas, controles de riesgo y privacidad del consumidor. Bancos regionales también estudian alternativas. • Apple extiende su racha negativa: $AAPL cayó -0.5% y suma siete jornadas seguidas en rojo, acumulando -20% en 2025. Factores clave: tasas altas, menor confianza del consumidor, presión arancelaria y exposición a China. También enfrenta desafíos legales con Epic Games y el DOJ. El mercado espera señales clave en la conferencia WWDC de junio. Una jornada de cierres estratégicos, regulación emergente y foco fiscal antes del fin de semana largo. ¡No te lo pierdas!

En este episodio cubrimos los eventos más relevantes antes de la apertura del mercado: • Wall Street recupera el ritmo tras presión en los bonos: Los futuros suben: $SPX +0.1%, $US100 +0.2%, $INDU estable. El bono a 10 años baja a 4.58% tras la débil demanda de deuda del miércoles. Inversores observan con cautela el creciente déficit fiscal bajo el plan de Trump. Se esperan datos de desempleo, PMI y ventas de viviendas con tasas hipotecarias cerca del 7%. • El oro sube por refugio ante riesgo fiscal y tensión geopolítica: El oro encadena su tercera subida apoyado en la debilidad del dólar (-0.6%), la rebaja crediticia de EE.UU. por Moody's y tensión por el paquete fiscal de Trump. Temores de ataque de Israel a Irán y fuerte demanda de China (importaciones +73% en abril) fortalecen el metal como activo refugio. • AT&T compra negocio de fibra de Lumen: $T adquiere la unidad de fibra masiva de $LUMN por $5.75B, sumando 1M de clientes y avanzando hacia su meta de 60M ubicaciones para 2030. Creará “NetworkCo”, con AT&T como cliente ancla. La operación será positiva en 12–24 meses y se espera el cierre en 2026 con venta parcial a socio de capital. • Nike regresa a Amazon con alzas por aranceles: $NKE volverá a vender directamente en $AMZN por primera vez desde 2019, excluyendo a terceros desde el 19 de julio. También subirá precios el 1 de junio: calzado $100–$150 sube hasta $5, +$150 sube hasta $10, ropa y accesorios +$2 a +$10. El nuevo CEO Elliott Hill busca recuperar cuota frente a marcas emergentes. Una jornada con foco en tasas, metales y movimientos estratégicos en telecomunicaciones y retail. ¡No te lo pierdas!

En este episodio cubrimos los eventos más importantes antes de la apertura del mercado: • Wall Street cae con foco en el nuevo plan fiscal de Trump: Los futuros moderan: $SPX -0.6%, $US100 -0.5%, $INDU -0.9%. Suben los bonos del Tesoro (10Y a 4.54%). El mercado asimila el fin de la racha ganadora del $SPX y evalúa el impacto del nuevo paquete fiscal republicano. También se reportaron fallos técnicos en Bloomberg que afectaron la subasta de deuda del Reino Unido. • Trump lanza el escudo espacial “Golden Dome”: El presidente propone un sistema antimisiles con interceptores espaciales y sensores avanzados por $175B. Compañías como $LMT y $LHX ya compiten por contratos. La iniciativa responde a amenazas emergentes como drones, armas hipersónicas y satélites ofensivos. La implementación se proyecta para 2029. • Volvo profundiza alianza con Google en autos inteligentes: $VOLAF integrará Android Automotive OS como sistema base en sus vehículos, con $GOOG como socio principal. El SUV eléctrico EX90 ya corre Android 15, permitiendo apps en Google Play, control remoto, integración de hogar inteligente y HD Maps. Volvo apunta a cerrar la brecha tecnológica con los dispositivos móviles y acelerar actualizaciones en su línea de autos. Una jornada con foco en defensa, movilidad inteligente y política fiscal. ¡No te lo pierdas!

En este episodio cubrimos los eventos más relevantes antes de la apertura del mercado: • Wall Street se estabiliza tras repunte reciente: Los futuros moderan: $SPX -0.3%, $US100 -0.4%, $INDU -0.2%. Los bonos del Tesoro también retroceden. El mercado consolida tras varios días de ganancias impulsadas por la tregua comercial EE.UU.–China y datos de inflación a la baja. Hoy no hay reportes económicos clave, pero hablarán varios miembros de la Fed, en medio de señales de cautela sobre política monetaria. • Waymo extiende su red de robotaxis: $GOOG $GOOGL recibió aprobación para expandir Waymo One en el Área de la Bahía, incluyendo San José. Junto a $UBER, inició operaciones piloto en Atlanta con lanzamiento completo previsto para verano. Waymo ya realiza 250,000 viajes pagos semanales en 4 ciudades y proyecta llegar a Miami y Washington D.C. en 2026. • Pfizer amplía su cartera oncológica con biotech china: $PFE firmó un acuerdo global con 3SBio por el desarrollo del anticuerpo SSGJ-707, con pagos potenciales de hasta $6 Billones. El tratamiento, actualmente en fase clínica en China, será producido en EE.UU. y entrará en fase 3 en 2025. Pfizer también invertirá $100M en acciones de 3SBio, consolidando su presencia en el mercado asiático. • Delta demanda a CrowdStrike por fallo global: $DAL avanza con una demanda contra $CRWD tras el colapso del software de ciberseguridad en julio de 2024. La aerolínea reclama $500 Billones en pérdidas por interrupciones operativas y cancelaciones. Un tribunal de Georgia permitió continuar con cargos por negligencia grave. Paralelamente, $DAL enfrenta una demanda colectiva de pasajeros. Una jornada de calma en los mercados, mientras destacan avances tecnológicos, apuestas farmacéuticas y batallas legales de alto impacto. ¡No te lo pierdas!

En este episodio cubrimos los eventos más relevantes tras la apertura del mercado: • Wall Street cae por rebaja crediticia de Moody's: Los futuros bajan con fuerza tras la degradación de EE.UU. a Aa1 por parte de Moody's. $SPX -1.3%, $US100 -1.7%, $INDU -0.9%. El rendimiento del Treasury a 10 años sube a 4.54%. La agencia citó déficits persistentes y falta de disciplina fiscal. El mercado ahora se enfoca en comentarios de la Fed y el dato de indicadores líderes (-0.7% esperado). • Nvidia lidera Computex 2025 con nuevos lanzamientos: $NVDA presentó los sistemas GB300, el servidor RTX Pro y el DGX Cloud Lepton. Lanzó NVLink Fusion y anunció una fábrica de supercomputadoras en Taiwán con 10,000 GPUs Blackwell junto a Foxconn y $TSM. Los nuevos productos superan ampliamente al H100 y apuntan a dominar IA, con alianzas globales con Acer, Dell y HP. • Alibaba cae por escrutinio sobre acuerdo con Apple: $BABA -4.8% tras reportes de que Trump evalúa el pacto de integración de IA con $AAPL en iPhones vendidos en China. La tensión regulatoria y la competencia local aumentan, con caídas también en ventas de iPhones (-2.3%). Apple evalúa alternativas como $BIDU y $TCEHY, pero enfrenta un entorno hostil. • China restringe tierras raras, tensión para Tesla y Lockheed: China limita exportaciones clave tras nuevas reglas de licencia. Tesla $TSLA, Ford $F y Lockheed $LMT advierten por interrupciones. Solo algunas empresas como Yantai Zhenghai han recibido autorizaciones parciales. Analistas ven la movida como estratégica en plena disputa comercial con EE.UU. Un inicio de semana cargado de tensión geopolítica, innovación tecnológica y presión macroeconómica. ¡Dale play y mantente informado!

En este episodio cubrimos los eventos más importantes tras la apertura del mercado: • Wall Street busca cerrar semana con 5 al hilo: Futuros al alza: $SPX +0.2%, $US100 +0.2%, $INDU +0.3%. El PPI de abril sorprendió a la baja, reforzando expectativas de recortes de tasas por parte de la Fed. Hoy se espera el dato de confianza del consumidor de mayo (53.1 estimado) y los precios de importación/exportación. El bono a 10 años cae a 4.41%, y el de 2 años a 3.95%. • GlobalWafers expande inversión en EE.UU.: $GFS anunció una ampliación de su inversión en Texas hasta $7.5B, tras inaugurar una planta de $3.5B en Sherman. La empresa recibirá $406M del programa CHIPS for America. Esta será la mayor instalación de obleas de silicio en EE.UU., clave para la cadena de semiconductores junto a $TSMC. • WeRide lanza robotaxis autónomos en Abu Dhabi: $WRD comenzó operaciones sin conductor de seguridad en vías públicas de Abu Dhabi. Planea expansión a Al Maryah Island y Al Reem Island. Su CFO destacó la ventaja competitiva de $WRD en entornos urbanos. Las acciones suben +2.7% premarket a $9.00. Una jornada que apunta a consolidar optimismo macroeconómico, liderazgo tecnológico y crecimiento global. ¡Dale play y no te lo pierdas!

En este episodio cubrimos los eventos más importantes tras la apertura del mercado: • Wall Street en pausa por datos clave: Los futuros caen: $SPX y $US100 -0.5%, $INDU -0.3%. Los inversionistas esperan el PPI de abril (+0.2% M/M, +2.5% A/A), reclamos por desempleo (229K esperados) y ventas minoristas planas. También hablará Jerome Powell en un evento sobre marcos económicos. • Boeing alcanza récord histórico: $BA marcó un nuevo máximo intradía en 52 semanas tras recibir un pedido de $96B por 210 aviones de Qatar (787 y 777X). También se sumó un contrato con Arabia Saudita por 20 aviones 737-8. China levantó prohibición de entregas como parte del acuerdo comercial. En la región también se anunciaron inversiones por $80B en tecnología por parte de $GOOG, $ORCL, $CRM, $AMD y $UBER. • DICK'S adquiere Foot Locker: $DKS compra $FL por ~$4.9B. Los accionistas de $FL podrán recibir $24 o 0.1168 acciones de $DKS. Se anticipan sinergias de $100M–$125M. A pesar de ventas comparables +4.5% y ganancias no-GAAP de $3.37 (mejor de lo esperado), $DKS cayó -13% y $FL subió +80% en premarket. • RTX cierra venta récord con Turquía: $RTX venderá misiles por $304B a Turquía: 53 AIM-120C-8, 60 AIM-9X Sidewinder y componentes extra. El contrato busca reforzar la alianza OTAN. Aún requiere aprobación del Congreso. Coincide con la visita de Marco Rubio a Ankara. Un episodio cargado de fusiones, defensa y señales técnicas clave. ¡No te lo pierdas!

En este episodio cubrimos los eventos más importantes tras la apertura del mercado: • Wall Street extiende ganancias por inflación suave: Futuros al alza: $SPX +0.2%, $US100 +0.4%, $INDU +0.1%. El IPC subió solo +0.2% mensual en abril, por debajo del +0.3% esperado. La inflación anual se ubicó en +2.3%, y la subyacente en +2.8%. UBS y Deutsche Bank advierten que el impacto de los aranceles podría sentirse a partir de junio. • Arabia Saudita acelera acuerdos de IA: Wedbush estima que los pactos entre firmas como $NVDA, $AMZN, $AMD y $CSCO con Riad podrían sumar $1T al mercado global de IA en la próxima década. El acceso saudí a chips avanzados contrasta con las restricciones a China. Se anticipan movimientos de $PLTR y $TSLA en la región. • Super Micro cierra megaacuerdo con Arabia Saudita: $SMCI subió 10% premarket tras firmar un pacto de $20B con DataVolt para plataformas GPU y racks de IA en EE.UU. y Medio Oriente. El anuncio se suma a proyectos tecnológicos conjuntos por $80B donde también participan $GOOGL, $ORCL, $CRM y $UBER. • Tesla reactiva producción tras tregua comercial: $TSLA reanuda importaciones de piezas desde China para el Cybercab y el Semi, tras la reducción temporal de aranceles. Iniciará producción piloto en octubre con planes de fabricación masiva en 2026. Morgan Stanley ve a $TSLA como un puente estratégico entre EE.UU. y China. Un episodio clave para entender cómo la tregua comercial y el boom en IA están redefiniendo el mercado. ¡No te lo pierdas!

En este episodio analizamos los movimientos clave tras la apertura de Wall Street: • Wall Street toma ganancias tras el rally: Futuros en rojo: $SPX -0.2%, $US100 -0.3%, $INDU -0.4%. El mercado modera su impulso tras la euforia del lunes por la tregua arancelaria. Los inversionistas se enfocan en el IPC de abril, con expectativas de inflación estable cerca de 2.4% anual. La Fed tendría espacio para recortar tasas si los precios siguen contenidos. • Amazon reconfigura su logística: $AMZN firmó acuerdo con $FDX para asumir entregas dejadas por $UPS. FedEx ofrecerá soporte a la red de paquetes XL desde 2025. UPS recortará 20,000 empleos, cerrará 73 centros y busca ahorrar $3.5B. FedEx subió 1% en after-hours. • Trump prepara megaacuerdos militares en Medio Oriente: EE.UU. aprobó venta de armas por $1.45B a EAU. El paquete incluye helicópteros de $BA y equipos de $LMT y $HON. Trump viajará a Arabia Saudita, Qatar y EAU para cerrar acuerdos por hasta $1T e inversiones en EE.UU. por $2B. Un episodio con el foco en logística, defensa y señales clave para inflación y tasas. ¡No te lo pierdas!

En este episodio analizamos las claves del inicio de semana en los mercados: • Wall Street vuela tras tregua EE.UU.–China: Futuros al alza con $SPX +3.1%, $US100 +4% y $INDU +2.4%. EE.UU. y China acordaron reducir aranceles por 90 días: Washington bajará del 145% al 30% y Pekín del 125% al 10%. Las conversaciones en Suiza fueron calificadas como “productivas” y se creará un mecanismo de consultas para seguir negociando. El mercado también espera el CPI de abril mañana. • Acuerdo alivia guerra arancelaria: El pacto cubre la mayoría de tarifas recíprocas recientes. Ambas potencias mantendrán la pausa mientras discuten nuevos términos. Se evalúa una posible reunión en EE.UU., China o un país neutral. Las bolsas globales reaccionan con fuerza al anuncio. • Trump golpea a farmacéuticas con nueva orden: El presidente anunció una orden ejecutiva para reducir precios de medicamentos entre 30%-80%, alineándolos con estándares internacionales. $LLY -2.2%, $AMGN -2.6%, $MRK -2.4%, $PFE -3.3%. En Europa, $AZN -5% y $GSK -2.6%. El sector salud fue el más afectado en Asia. Un episodio donde la diplomacia comercial domina el panorama, pero también se encienden alarmas en el sector farmacéutico global.

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En este episodio repasamos las claves que mueven al mercado este viernes: • Wall Street avanza tras acuerdo EE.UU.–Reino Unido: Futuros al alza con $SPX +0.2%, $US100 +0.3% y $INDU plano. El mercado se apoya en el anuncio del acuerdo comercial y en señales de que Trump podría reducir aranceles a China durante nuevas conversaciones. La jornada económica se centra en discursos de la Fed. • Boeing celebra pedido récord de IAG: $BA repunta tras la compra de 32 aviones 787-10 por parte de British Airways y 21 Airbus A330neo para Iberia. El pedido es parte de un plan de renovación de flota ligado al nuevo acuerdo comercial. Se esperan más compras por hasta $10B según funcionarios de EE.UU. • TSMC marca récord de ingresos: $TSM reporta crecimiento del +48.1% YoY en abril, alcanzando NT$349.57B. Fuerte demanda por chips de IA y compras anticipadas ante temores de aranceles impulsan el salto mensual del +22.2%. La compañía mantiene su guía de crecimiento de +25% para 2025 en USD. • Nvidia adapta su oferta para China: $NVDA lanzará una versión reducida de su chip H20 para cumplir con restricciones de exportación de EE.UU. y seguir operando en el mercado chino, que representa el 13% de sus ventas. El chip tendrá menor rendimiento y memoria, cediendo terreno ante Huawei. Un episodio con foco en comercio internacional, semiconductores y la competencia global en inteligencia artificial.

En este episodio cubrimos lo más relevante antes de la apertura de Wall Street: • Wall Street se anima por reunión EE.UU.–China: Futuros al alza: $SPX, $US100 y $INDU +0.6%. La expectativa de avances comerciales se suma a la espera por la decisión de tasas de la Fed. Se anticipa que el FOMC mantenga tasas sin cambios, pero el foco está en las palabras de Jerome Powell tras la presión pública de Trump por recortes. • Cisco impulsa su apuesta cuántica: $CSCO presentó su chip Quantum Network Entanglement y abrirá un laboratorio en California. Tecnología de baja energía, operativa a temperatura ambiente y con hasta 200M pares de entrelazamiento por segundo. Se suma a la carrera cuántica junto a $GOOG, $MSFT, $AMZN y $NVDA. • CoreWeave fortalece su músculo financiero: $CRWV eleva su línea de crédito de $650M a $1.5B con bancos como JPMorgan y Goldman Sachs. Busca expandir infraestructura de nube enfocada en IA. Pese a tensiones pasadas por deuda, las entidades muestran confianza en su crecimiento futuro. • Novo Nordisk ajusta guía, pero sube: $NVO reportó ingresos por $11.9B (+19% YoY) en Q1 2025, aunque ventas de Wegovy decepcionaron. Aun así, la acción sube al anticipar recuperación en ventas tras el cierre de vacíos regulatorios en EE.UU. Nueva guía: +13%-21% en ventas para el año. Un episodio cargado de noticias clave antes de que arranque el mercado. ¡No te lo pierdas!

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En este episodio cubrimos lo más relevante antes de la apertura de Wall Street: • Wall Street se anima por reunión EE.UU.–China: Futuros al alza: $SPX, $US100 y $INDU +0.6%. La expectativa de avances comerciales se suma a la espera por la decisión de tasas de la Fed. Se anticipa que el FOMC mantenga tasas sin cambios, pero el foco está en las palabras de Jerome Powell tras la presión pública de Trump por recortes. • Cisco impulsa su apuesta cuántica: $CSCO presentó su chip Quantum Network Entanglement y abrirá un laboratorio en California. Tecnología de baja energía, operativa a temperatura ambiente y con hasta 200M pares de entrelazamiento por segundo. Se suma a la carrera cuántica junto a $GOOG, $MSFT, $AMZN y $NVDA. • CoreWeave fortalece su músculo financiero: $CRWV eleva su línea de crédito de $650M a $1.5B con bancos como JPMorgan y Goldman Sachs. Busca expandir infraestructura de nube enfocada en IA. Pese a tensiones pasadas por deuda, las entidades muestran confianza en su crecimiento futuro. • Novo Nordisk ajusta guía, pero sube: $NVO reportó ingresos por $11.9B (+19% YoY) en Q1 2025, aunque ventas de Wegovy decepcionaron. Aun así, la acción sube al anticipar recuperación en ventas tras el cierre de vacíos regulatorios en EE.UU. Nueva guía: +13%–21% en ventas para el año. ¡Dale play y entérate de todo lo que mueve el mercado hoy!

En este episodio cubrimos los desarrollos clave que mueven el mercado: • Mercado en rojo por tensión comercial y Fed: Futuros: $SPX -0.7%, $US100 -1%, $INDU -0.7%. Persisten los temores por la falta de avances comerciales, comentarios arancelarios de Trump, y la expectativa por la decisión de tasas de la Fed este miércoles. $NFLX sigue presionado y $F cae -2.7% tras retirar su guía anual. • IBM impulsa IA híbrida con alianzas estratégicas: $IBM presentó nuevos productos de IA en THINK, apuntando a integración empresarial con aliados como $ORCL, $AMZN, $MSFT y $CRM. Lanza su suite watsonx en Oracle Cloud y reafirma inversión de $150B en EE.UU. para mainframes y computación cuántica. • DoorDash compra Deliveroo: $DASH adquiere a $DROOF por $3.9B, sumando 7M de usuarios en 9 países. Expande presencia en Europa y fortalece estrategia internacional tras la compra de Wolt en 2022. El grupo combinó $90B en pedidos brutos en 2024. • Pony.ai y Uber expanden robotaxis globales: $PONY +12% en premarket tras anunciar alianza con $UBER en Medio Oriente. Uber también amplía colaboración con WeRide $WRD a 15 ciudades. Uber continúa tejiendo una red global con más de 15 alianzas en tecnología autónoma. ¡Dale play y prepárate con lo más relevante antes de la apertura del mercado!

En este episodio repasamos las noticias más relevantes del día: • Futuros en rojo por la Fed y Trump: Los índices abren a la baja: $SPX -0.9%, $US100 -0.9%, $INDU -0.7%, con la atención puesta en la decisión de tasas esta semana. A pesar de la presión de Trump, se espera que la Fed mantenga las tasas sin cambios. Wall Street venía de su racha alcista más larga en 20 años. • Shell analiza adquirir BP: Según Bloomberg, $SHEL evalúa comprar $BP en una megafusión energética. Shell, con el doble de capitalización ($197B vs. $74B), estaría considerando la caída de valor de BP y las tensiones internas con inversores. De concretarse, sería una de las mayores fusiones del sector. • China vuelve al mercado de LNG: Empresas chinas reanudan compras spot de LNG tras caída de precios al nivel más bajo en un año (~$10/MBTU). Las importaciones cayeron 24% en lo que va de 2025. Expertos anticipan alza de hasta 60% en precios si continúa la debilidad del mercado global. • Trump impone arancel del 100% a películas extranjeras: Caen acciones del sector media: $NFLX -3%, $WBD -3%, $PARA -1%, $DIS -1.5%. El nuevo arancel busca proteger la industria de cine local, pero genera incertidumbre en Hollywood por su impacto operativo y en la cadena global de producción. ¡Dale play para entender cómo estas noticias impactan tus inversiones!

En este episodio, repasamos los temas más importantes del día: • Wall Street atento a China y empleo: Los futuros suben con $SPX +0.4%, $US100 +0.3% y $INDU +0.5%, mientras China evalúa propuestas de EE.UU. y exige “sinceridad” para negociar. El “Temu tax” entra en vigor. Hoy se publican las nóminas no agrícolas (esperadas en 138K) y el mercado digiere resultados de $AAPL (-3%) y $AMZN (-2.3%). • American Airlines expande terminal DFW: $AAL y el aeropuerto de Dallas-Fort Worth anuncian una ampliación de $4B en la Terminal F, duplicando puertas a 31. Será de uso exclusivo para $AAL y busca consolidar a DFW como el hub aéreo más grande del mundo. La primera fase concluirá en 2027. • Uber lanza robotaxis con May Mobility: $UBER se alía con May Mobility para desplegar miles de vehículos autónomos desde 2025, comenzando en Arlington, TX. Los AVs híbridos de $TM operarán desde la app de Uber. La meta es escalar a más ciudades en 2026 con vehículos totalmente autónomos. Un episodio que conecta avances en movilidad autónoma, relaciones comerciales globales y grandes proyectos de infraestructura. ¡Dale play y entérate!

En este episodio, repasamos los temas más importantes del día: • Wall Street celebra resultados tech: Los futuros suben con fuerza tras sólidos earnings de $MSFT (+8.2% premarket) y $META (+6.2%). $SPX +1.2%, $US100 +1.6% y $INDU +0.7%. Wall Street cerró con rebote tras la primera contracción del PIB desde 2022. Hoy se esperan datos de desempleo (224K), PMI e ISM de abril. • Trump impulsa vacuna universal: La administración lanza el programa “Generation Gold Standard” con $500B para desarrollar vacunas contra múltiples virus. Se usarán tecnologías clásicas como virus inactivados. Ensayos planeados para 2026; aprobación esperada en 2029. Involucra a $AZN, $GSK, $SNY, $PFE, $MRNA, $NVAX y otras. • Amazon amplía cobertura rural: $AMZN invertirá $4B en expandir su red de entregas en zonas rurales, cubriendo 13,000 códigos postales y creando 100,000 empleos. La iniciativa permitirá más de mil millones de paquetes adicionales al año. Acciones suben +2.7% tras el anuncio. Un episodio que destaca innovación médica, expansión logística y el poder de las tecnológicas en el mercado. ¡Dale play y no te lo pierdas!

En este episodio, repasamos los temas más importantes del día: • Wall Street expectante por el PCE: Los futuros bajan con $SPX -0.1%, $US100 -0.3% y $INDU estable. El bono a 10 años cae a 4.16%. Los inversionistas aguardan los datos del PIB (+0.2% esperado), empleo ADP (+125K) y el reporte clave del PCE (+0.1% mensual y +2.6% anual esperado). • Waymo y Toyota se alían en movilidad autónoma: $GOOGL y Toyota anuncian una colaboración para desarrollar una nueva plataforma de robotaxis. El proyecto incluye a Woven by Toyota y apunta al futuro de la propiedad personal de vehículos autónomos. Llega tras pruebas de Waymo en Tokio. • Sony impulsa al Topix con rumor de escisión: $SONY sube +7.1% en Tokio tras reportes de que escindirá su negocio de semiconductores este año. Los inversionistas celebran la medida como catalizador para liberar valor dentro del conglomerado japonés. • JetBlue y United exploran nueva alianza: $JBLU y $UAL negocian un acuerdo que permitiría conectar vuelos y compartir millas sin coordinar tarifas ni horarios. La propuesta busca evitar conflictos legales como los que enfrentó la NEA entre $JBLU y $AAL. El mercado sigue atento a su evolución. Un episodio que conecta inflación, transporte autónomo, movimientos corporativos y alianzas en la aviación. ¡Dale play y no te lo pierdas!

En este episodio, repasamos los temas más importantes del día: • Wall Street en pausa optimista: Los futuros avanzan con $SPX +0.2%, $US100 +0.2%, $INDU +0.2% ante posibles anuncios de Trump sobre aranceles y datos clave del consumidor (confianza 87.7 esperada) y JOLTS (7.49M). El bono a 10 años sube a 4.24%. • Trump alivia presión sobre autos: El presidente anunciará hoy una reducción parcial de aranceles en autopartes y exención adicional a vehículos ya gravados. Las automotrices recibirán reembolsos de hasta 3.75% por producción doméstica. $GM, $F y $STLA suben en premarket. • Amazon lanza competencia a Starlink: $AMZN despliega 27 satélites del Proyecto Kuiper, iniciando su constelación de internet. El plan incluye +3,200 satélites y 80 lanzamientos, con socios como $ULA y Blue Origin. La mitad debe estar en órbita para julio de 2026. • Merck invierte $1B en biológicos: $MRK comienza la construcción de un centro en Delaware para manufactura local de tratamientos como Keytruda. Generará hasta 1,500 empleos y responde a la nueva presión arancelaria sobre la industria farmacéutica. Un episodio para entender cómo Washington, la innovación espacial y la salud impulsan el mercado en medio de señales de descompresión comercial. ¡No te lo pierdas!

En este episodio, repasamos los temas más importantes del día: • Wall Street abre con cautela: Los futuros bajan levemente con $SPX -0.1%, $US100 -0.1%, $INDU -0.1%, mientras los traders se enfocan en una semana cargada de earnings y macro. Se esperan Core PCE, PIB y payrolls. Hoy, índice manufacturero de la Fed de Dallas. • CrowdStrike apuesta por la ciberseguridad autónoma: $CRWD lanza Charlotte AI Agentic Response y Workflows, avanzando hacia un SOC sin intervención humana. Las nuevas herramientas permiten detección, investigación y respuesta automatizadas. • Salesforce presenta avances en Agentforce: $CRM destaca “innovación radical” en IA con nuevas funciones para programación, HR y multicanal. Needham mantiene rating Buy, PT $400, resaltando el Testing Center y Agent Interaction para optimizar el feedback de los agentes. • Huawei desafía a Nvidia con nuevo chip IA: Huawei prueba el procesador Ascend 910D, diseñado para competir con el $NVDA H100. Las primeras muestras estarán listas a finales del próximo mes. Busca liderar en el entrenamiento de modelos de IA en China. Un episodio para entender cómo la tecnología, los resultados corporativos y los datos económicos estarán moviendo el mercado esta semana. ¡No te lo pierdas!

En este episodio, repasamos los temas más importantes del día: • Wall Street toma respiro tras el rally: Los futuros caen con $SPX -0.2%, $US100 -0.3%, $INDU -0.4% mientras las tensiones EE.UU.–China continúan. Beijing evalúa exenciones, pero niega negociaciones activas. Hoy se publica la confianza del consumidor de abril (esperado 50.8). • Alphabet brilla en resultados: $GOOGL +5.6% premarket tras superar expectativas. Ingresos +12% y utilidad neta +46%, con margen operativo de 34%. Destaca la expansión de su negocio cloud y Gemini 2.5 en IA. Aumenta dividendo un 5% a $0.21 por acción. • Pony.ai y Tencent unen fuerzas en robotaxis: $PONY sube 12% premarket tras alianza con $TCEHY para integrar sus robotaxis en WeChat y Tencent Maps. La empresa acelera su expansión comercial y compite con $GOOGL (Waymo), $AMZN (Zoox), $BIDU, $WRD y $TSLA. • Butterfly Effect quintuplica su valoración: Startup china creadora de Manus AI recauda $75M, alcanzando casi $500M de valoración. Lidera la ronda Benchmark, con participación de $TCEHY y ZhenFund. Planea expansión a EE.UU., Japón y Medio Oriente. Un episodio que conecta el avance de la IA, la movilidad autónoma y la política comercial global. ¡No te lo pierdas!

En este episodio, repasamos los temas más importantes del día: • Wall Street retrocede tras el rebote: Los futuros bajan con $SPX -0.6%, $US100 -0.8%, $INDU -0.6% mientras se enfría el rally por la posible desescalada comercial. El Tesoro a 10Y en 4.35%. Trump moderó su tono, pero el Tesoro advierte que un acuerdo con China podría tardar 2-3 años. Hoy reportan $GOOG, $INTC, $AAL y $CMCSA. • Tesla avanza con robotaxis: $TSLA inicia pruebas de su servicio de robotaxis con empleados en Austin y el Área de la Bahía. Lanzamiento oficial previsto para verano 2025. Buscará competir con $GOOGL (Waymo), $AMZN (Zoox) y otros jugadores en el espacio autónomo. • Aurora marca hito con camión autónomo: $AUR lanza su primer camión sin conductor en ruta de Dallas a Houston. Planea tener decenas operando en 2025. Ya tiene acuerdos con $FDX y $UBER. Los analistas piden cautela mientras la acción ronda los $6. • IBM cae por dudas en consultoría: Aunque $IBM superó expectativas en ingresos y mantiene guía optimista, la caída en Consultoría (-2%) y las dudas sobre DOGE generan presión. Ingresos de Software +7% y Red Hat con crecimiento de doble dígito, pero el modelo de crecimiento anual sigue bajo revisión. Un episodio para entender cómo la autonomía, la política comercial y las estrategias corporativas están moviendo los mercados.

En este episodio, repasamos los temas más importantes del día: • Wall Street sube con fuerza tras calmarse las tensiones: $SPX +2.2%, $US100 +2.6%, $INDU +1.8% luego de que Trump aseguró que no planea destituir a Powell y moderó su postura sobre aranceles a China. El 10Y cae a 4.35%. Hoy se publican el PMI Flash, ventas de casas nuevas y el Beige Book. • Tesla rebota pese a débiles resultados: $TSLA +6.2% premarket tras reafirmación de Elon Musk sobre su compromiso con la empresa y reducción de su tiempo en el gobierno y otros proyectos. Wedbush sube PT a $350. Tesla reiteró avances en nuevos modelos y el Cybercab, aunque advierte sobre el impacto de la guerra comercial. • Automotrices advierten sobre tarifas a autopartes: Asociaciones del sector enviaron carta a la Casa Blanca alertando sobre riesgos de paros de producción y despidos si se imponen los aranceles del 3 de mayo. Reorganizar cadenas de suministro tomará tiempo, advierten. Un episodio clave para entender cómo la política, la tecnología y las cadenas globales siguen marcando el rumbo de los mercados.

En este episodio, repasamos los temas más relevantes del día: • Wall Street rebota tras tensión Fed-Trump: $SPX +1%, $US100 +1%, $INDU +0.9% luego de la fuerte venta del lunes. El mercado sigue atento a las declaraciones de la Fed y el conflicto por la independencia del banco central. Hoy reporta $TSLA tras el cierre. • EE.UU. presiona a India por e-commerce: Washington exige acceso total para $WMT y $AMZN a cambio de evitar los aranceles del 26%-27%. India busca cerrar un acuerdo antes de que termine la pausa de 90 días, ofreciendo reducir tarifas y aumentar compras de energía y equipo militar. • Boeing negocia venta de Jeppesen: $BA en conversaciones avanzadas para vender su unidad de navegación a Thoma Bravo por más de $8B. La venta es parte del plan de Boeing para simplificar operaciones y reducir deuda. El anuncio podría darse esta semana. • Walgreens cierra acuerdo por opioides: $WBA pagará hasta $350M al DOJ para resolver acusaciones por recetas indebidas entre 2012 y 2023. El acuerdo incluye pagos adicionales si la empresa es vendida o fusionada antes de 2032. La compañía continúa con su plan de reestructuración. Un episodio para seguir de cerca las tensiones políticas, el comercio global y las estrategias corporativas que están moldeando los mercados. ¡No te lo pierdas!

En este episodio, analizamos los desarrollos clave que están sacudiendo a los mercados: • Futuros caen por dudas sobre la Fed: $SPX -1%, $US100 -1.4%, $INDU -0.8% luego de reportes de que Trump evalúa despedir a Jerome Powell. El mercado teme por la independencia de la Fed. El 10Y sube a 4.37%, el 2Y baja a 3.76%. En la semana reportan $TSLA, $GOOGL, $INTC y $IBM. • China retira inversiones de EE.UU.: Fondos estatales como CIC frenan inversiones en private equity estadounidense. En su lugar, aumentan posiciones en el FTSE 100, incluyendo $SHEL (£2.4B) y $AZN (£1B). La separación financiera sigue profundizándose. • Malaysia Airlines quiere los 737 MAX de China: $BA podría redirigir aviones MAX destinados a aerolíneas chinas. Malaysia Aviation Group negocia su adquisición para renovar flota, aprovechando tensiones entre EE.UU. y China. Ya tienen contrato con $AL por 25 unidades. • Eli Lilly fabricará su píldora en EE.UU.: $LLY sube 14% tras anunciar que orforglipron se producirá localmente para exportación. Se alinea con política de repatriación industrial de Trump. Comprometidos $50B en nuevas plantas y expansión productiva nacional. Un episodio cargado de geopolítica, salud y señales preocupantes sobre la estabilidad institucional en EE.UU. ¡No te lo pierdas!

En este episodio, repasamos los temas más relevantes del día: • Wall Street rebota tras fuerte venta: Los futuros suben con $SPX +0.8%, $US100 +1% y $INDU +0.9%. Tras la caída del miércoles por comentarios de Powell, los inversionistas digieren nuevos datos económicos y la presión sobre semiconductores. Mañana el mercado estará cerrado por Semana Santa. • Goldman advierte sobre desvinculación con China: Hasta $800B en acciones chinas podrían ser liquidadas si avanza la presión para excluir a empresas como $BABA de Wall Street. Inversionistas podrían enfrentar restricciones en Hong Kong en medio de aranceles del 145% de EE.UU. y 125% de China. • EE.UU. y Ucrania cerca de acuerdo por minerales: Según Ucrania, el pacto avanza rápido y generará beneficios económicos. Trump exige “derecho de primera oferta” en proyectos de recursos estratégicos. Se espera anuncio formal en los próximos días. • Eli Lilly avanza con píldora oral GLP-1: $LLY reporta éxito en Fase 3 con orforglipron. Reducción de peso del 7.9% en 40 semanas y buen perfil de seguridad. Planea aprobación regulatoria para obesidad en 2025 y diabetes en 2026. Sería la primera GLP-1 oral no peptídica del mercado. Un episodio imperdible para seguir el pulso del mercado, el conflicto global por recursos estratégicos y el avance en el tratamiento de enfermedades crónicas.

En este episodio, repasamos los temas más críticos del día: • Wall Street cae tras golpe a Nvidia: Los futuros retroceden tras conocerse que $NVDA necesita licencia especial para exportar chips H20 a China. $US100 -1.2%, $SPX -0.6%, $INDU +0.1%. Nvidia anticipa un cargo de hasta $5.5B. Hoy se publican ventas minoristas y producción industrial. Habla Powell. • Aranceles a China suben a 245%: La Casa Blanca confirma que algunas exportaciones chinas enfrentarán tarifas de hasta 245%. Incluyen productos médicos como jeringas. China no fue incluida en la pausa de aranceles de 90 días y designó nuevo negociador comercial. • EE.UU. restringe chips H20: $NVDA ya no podrá enviar su chip estrella sin aprobación federal. Alibaba, Tencent y ByteDance habían ordenado $16B en estos chips. Trump celebró que Nvidia invertirá $500B en supercomputación en EE.UU. • Trump lanza investigación sobre minerales críticos: Se analizará si las importaciones de litio, cobalto, níquel y tierras raras representan un riesgo para la seguridad nacional. China, que produce el 70% de las tierras raras, ya restringe exportaciones. El informe estará listo en 180 días. Un episodio clave para entender cómo la tecnología, la geopolítica y la seguridad nacional están convergiendo en esta nueva etapa de tensiones entre las dos mayores potencias del mundo.

En este episodio, analizamos los movimientos clave que están marcando el ritmo del mercado: • Wall Street se estabiliza: Los futuros suben levemente con $US100 +0.4%, $SPX +0.2%, $INDU +0.2%. A pesar del rebote, el $SPX aún está -12% desde su pico de febrero. Trump insinúa una excepción temporal a los aranceles del 25% sobre autos, pero considera nuevas medidas para farma y chips. • China castiga a Boeing: $BA -3% en premarket luego de que China ordenara detener entregas y compras de piezas aeronáuticas a EE.UU. en respuesta a los aranceles. Las aerolíneas chinas recibirán apoyo estatal por mayores costos de arriendo. • AMD fabricará chips en EE.UU.: $AMD producirá sus nuevos chips EPYC “Venice” en 2025 usando tecnología de 2nm en la planta de $TSMC en Arizona. Es la primera vez que la compañía fabrica fuera de Taiwán, en un giro estratégico por tensiones geopolíticas. • Robotaxis llegan a Atlanta: $UBER y $GOOGL lanzarán su servicio de robotaxis con vehículos Waymo este verano en Atlanta, tras su despliegue inicial en Austin. Uber gestiona la plataforma y Waymo opera la tecnología autónoma con vehículos Jaguar I-PACE. Un episodio que conecta la geopolítica con la evolución tecnológica y cómo estas tensiones están moldeando la industria global. ¡No te lo pierdas!

En este episodio, repasamos los temas más críticos del día: • Wall Street inicia con fuerza: Los futuros suben tras la exención temporal de aranceles a tecnología desde China. El $SPX +1%, $US100 +1.2%, $INDU +0.9%. Aun así, Trump mantiene la amenaza de un impuesto del 20%. Se esperan reportes de $BAC, $NFLX, $TSM y $AXP esta semana. • BP descubre petróleo en EE.UU.: $BP +3.1% pre-market tras encontrar petróleo en el pozo Far South en el Golfo de México. El hallazgo, junto a $CVX, impulsa su meta de 400K boe/día en la región para 2030. El pozo fue perforado a más de 23,800 pies. • China suspende exportaciones de tierras raras: Pekín detiene envíos clave mientras implementa nuevas restricciones regulatorias. Afecta 6 elementos pesados y los imanes refinados. A pesar del anuncio, las exportaciones subieron 20.31% interanual en marzo. • MP Materials se dispara: $MP +14.3% pre-market tras conocerse que Trump firmará una orden ejecutiva para almacenar metales críticos extraídos del fondo marino. Busca reforzar la producción nacional frente a las restricciones chinas. Un episodio lleno de tensiones estratégicas, hallazgos energéticos y el impacto directo de las políticas comerciales en el corazón de la industria global. ¡No te lo pierdas!

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Varada Sethu joined Woman's Hour to talk about stepping into the iconic role of the Doctor Who companion. She tells Datshiane Navanagayam how she went from a guest star to landing the role of Belinda Chandra, why this character feels like her most personal yet, and what it means to her to bring cultural authenticity to the Tardis. With a background in science, classical dance, and Star Wars fandom, Varada brings a fresh energy to the Whoniverse.Grace Davidson was a teenager when she was diagnosed with a rare condition that meant she did not have a uterus. But, following a transplant using her sister's donated womb, she gave birth earlier this year to baby Amy. Nuala McGovern speaks to Isabel Quiroga, the surgeon who led the transplant team at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford, and to Lydia Brain, who is currently on the waiting list for a womb transplant.Emily MacGregor is a music historian and trombonist. After the sudden death of her father, a jazz guitarist, she found she wasn't able to bear the sound of music. The very thing that once connected them became a source of pain and silence. In her new book, While the Music Lasts, she explains how she reconnected with her father through the pieces left on his music stand, from tangos to Handel, Cádiz to Coltrane. She joined Nuala to talk about how she learnt to navigate grief and how she discovered the joy of music again.BBC2's Saving Lives in Cardiff is back on our screens from tonight. Based in the largest hospital in Wales, University Hospital in Cardiff, the series highlights the weight of difficult, sometimes life and death decisions surgeons make about who to prioritise next. The first episode follows Dr Indu Deglurkar, a cardiac surgeon, one of only 19 women in this role in the UK. She tells Nuala about the pressures and joys of her job.Have you been watching The White Lotus? The season three finale aired this week and one of the key themes that's had fans talking has been female friendship. It's left us wondering - is three a crowd? In the show the dynamic plays out between a trio of friends Jaclyn, Kate and Laurie, played by Michelle Monaghan, Leslie Bibb and Carrie Coon, who alternate between loving and loathing one another. So can friendships between three people work? TV critic Rachael Sigee and relationships writer at the Independent Olivia Petter joined Nuala McGovern.Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Annette Wells Editor: Sarah Jane Griffiths

I'm so excited for you to hear this episode. I'm chatting to the brilliant Reena Hammer (daughter of Ruby) about the making of Indu, a beauty brand that is changing the way that teenagers treat and feel about their skin.At a time when kids as young as 11 are buying expensive and inappropriate skincare and comparing themselves to filtered images on TikTok, Indu is all about keeping things simple, skin safe AND making teenagers feel good about themselves.During the episode Reena and I chat about how she's making change with her brand, skin tips for younger skin, how we can help teenagers to feel better about themselves and so much more. Reena will inspire and empower you, particularly if you are a parent who is struggling to navigate this often challenging space.

En este episodio, repasamos los temas más críticos del día: • Mercados en rojo por guerra comercial: Los futuros caen tras el anuncio de China de subir aranceles a 125%. La Casa Blanca elevó el arancel total a productos chinos al 145%. El $SPX, $US100 y $INDU retroceden. Se espera el PPI (+0.3% mensual, +3.6% core) y comienza la temporada de earnings con bancos. • Intel bajo presión geopolítica: $INTC cayó -7.3% tras revelarse que su CEO Lip-Bu Tan ha invertido en más de 600 firmas tecnológicas chinas, algunas vinculadas al ejército. Inquietudes sobre su rol en contratos con el Departamento de Defensa arrastran a la acción a mínimos no vistos desde 2009. • Lucid gana terreno en Arizona: $LCID adquiere activos de $NKLAQ por ~$30M, incluyendo planta y maquinaria en Coolidge. Planea contratar a 300 exempleados. No incluye tecnología ni clientes de camiones. Suma +884,000 pies cuadrados a su infraestructura en EE.UU. Un episodio decisivo para entender el impacto real de la guerra comercial en empresas clave y cómo algunos jugadores aprovechan el caos para reposicionarse. ¡No te lo pierdas!

En este episodio, repasamos los temas más críticos del día: • Wall Street pierde impulso: Tras el rally histórico del miércoles ($SPX +9.52%, $US100 +12.16%), los futuros vuelven al rojo: $SPX -2.2%, $US100 -2.4%, $INDU -1.6%. Trump pausó aranceles para 75 países, pero subió al 125% los de China. Hoy se esperan el IPC de marzo y jobless claims. • Trump reactiva la industria naval: Orden ejecutiva impulsa construcción naval con incentivos fiscales y aranceles a barcos chinos. Elon Musk liderará equipo de eficiencia para revisar fragatas, submarinos y puertos. Se auditarán planes clave como los rompehielos árticos. • UE negociará GNL para evitar aranceles: La Unión Europea podría aumentar compras de gas natural licuado a EE.UU. para calmar tensiones con Trump. Se busca balancear el comercio sin comprometer la transición verde. Bruselas acelerará permisos para proyectos energéticos. • Waymo se expande a Tokio: $GOOGL inicia pruebas con 25 vehículos manuales para mapear calles japonesas. Se alía con Nihon Kotsu y la app GO. Es su primera exploración internacional, sumándose a sus operaciones en EE.UU. Un episodio para entender la fragilidad de los mercados y los nuevos frentes tecnológicos, geopolíticos y energéticos que se están abriendo. ¡No te lo pierdas!

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En este episodio, repasamos los temas más críticos del día: • Wall Street rebota con esperanza: Los futuros suben tras rumores de negociaciones comerciales: $SPX +1.4%, $US100 +1.3%, $INDU +2.1%. Trump mantiene sus aranceles, pero está abierto a acuerdos. UE, Japón y Vietnam estarían entre los primeros países en la mesa de diálogo. • Occidental lidera captura de carbono: $OXY recibió aprobación de la EPA para iniciar el primer proyecto DAC con permiso Clase VI. STRATOS podrá almacenar hasta 500,000 toneladas métricas de CO₂ al año. Iniciará operaciones en 2025, con apoyo de BlackRock. • Trump impulsa minería de carbón: Firmará hoy una orden ejecutiva para revitalizar el carbón como fuente clave para centros de datos de IA. Acciones del sector suben fuerte: $BTU +7.6%, $ARLP +3.2%, $CNR +3.2%, $HCC +3.9%. • IBM lanza el z17 con IA integrada: $IBM presenta su nuevo mainframe con chip Telum II y coprocesador AI. Procesa hasta 450B inferencias por día. El sistema estará disponible desde el 8 de junio, con foco en seguridad, velocidad y decisiones inteligentes. Un episodio para entender cómo el comercio, la energía y la IA están redibujando el panorama económico global. ¡No te lo pierdas!

En este episodio, repasamos los temas más críticos del día: • Wall Street modera pérdidas: Tras una semana brutal, los futuros abren con caídas moderadas: $SPX -2.4%, $US100 -2.4%, $INDU -2.3%. Los mercados aún digieren los aranceles de Trump y temen represalias globales. El riesgo de recesión en EE.UU. aumenta. • Petróleo en mínimos de 3 años: El WTI cae -4.1% a $59.47 y el Brent -3.9% a $63.04, presionado por temores de recesión global, recorte de precios saudíes y la próxima alza de producción de la OPEP+. Goldman Sachs rebaja estimaciones de demanda y precios para 2026. • Criptomercado en liquidación: El Bitcoin $BTC-USD cae por debajo de $75,000 y borra casi todas las ganancias post-elección. La capitalización cripto baja 12% a $2.47T, con $XRP -11.8%, $SOL -8% y $ETH -7.9%. La presión regulatoria y comercial se intensifica. Un episodio clave para entender el nerviosismo del mercado y lo que podría venir en esta semana decisiva. ¡No te lo pierdas!

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En este episodio, desglosamos los temas más importantes que están marcando el pulso de los mercados: • Wall Street entra en pánico: El presidente Trump declaró una emergencia nacional comercial, imponiendo aranceles del 10% al 49% usando la Ley IEEPA. El $SPX cayó -3.6%, $US100 -3.8% y $INDU -2.7%. UBS estima que los precios al consumidor podrían subir hasta 4% si no hay marcha atrás. Hoy se publican datos de empleo y el ISM de servicios. • Semiconductores bajo presión: Aunque oficialmente excluidos, los aranceles impactan a socios clave de $NVDA, $AMD, $AVGO y $QCOM. $MU cae -5%, $TSM -4% y $INTC -1%. También bajan $ASML, $LRCX, $AMAT y $KLAC. Trump sugiere que las empresas “fabriquen en EE.UU.” para evitar impuestos. • Apple se desploma: $AAPL cayó ~7% tras los aranceles a China (34%), Taiwán (32%) e India (26%), donde produce buena parte de su hardware. Trump afirmó que Apple invertirá $500B en EE.UU., aunque sigue dependiendo de $TSM y busca diversificar con $FXCOF en India. Acompáñanos para entender cómo esta nueva ola de proteccionismo está sacudiendo a los mercados y alterando el mapa geopolítico global de la tecnología.

This episode we will finish up the travels of Xuanzang, who circumnavigated the Indian subcontinent while he was there, spending over a decade and a half travelings, visiting important Buddhist pilgrimage sites, and studying at the feet of learned monks of India, and in particular at Nalanda monastery--a true center of learning from this period. For more, check out our blogpost page:  https://sengokudaimyo.com/podcast/episode-122 Rough Transcript Welcome to Sengoku Daimyo's Chronicles of Japan.  My name is Joshua and this is episode 122:  Journey to the West, Part 3 The courtyard at Nalanda was quiet.  Although hundreds of people were crowded in, trying to hear what was being said, they were all doing their best to be silent and still.  Only the wind or an errant bird dared speak up.  The master's voice may not have been what it once was—he was definitely getting on in years—but Silabhadra's mind was as sharp as ever. At the front of the crowd was a relatively young face from a far off land.  Xuanzang had made it to the greatest center of learning in the world, and he had been accepted as a student of perhaps the greatest sage of his era.  Here he was, receiving lessons on some of the deepest teachings of the Mahayana Buddhist sect, the very thing he had come to learn and bring home. As he watched and listened with rapt attention, the ancient teacher began to speak….   For the last two episodes, and continuing with this one, we have been covering the travels of the monk Xuanzang in the early 7th century, starting around 629 and concluding in 645.  Born during the Sui dynasty, Xuanzang felt that the translations of the Buddhist sutras available in China were insufficient—many of them had been made long ago, and often were translations of translations.  Xuanzang decided to travel to India in the hopes of getting copies in the original language to provide more accurate translations of the sutras, particularly the Mahayana sutras.  His own accounts of his journeys, even if drawn from his memory years afterwards, provide some of our most detailed contemporary evidence of the Silk Road and the people and places along the way.  After he returned, he got to work on his translations, and became quite famous.  Several of the Japanese students of Buddhism who traveled to the Tang dynasty in the 650s studied under him directly and brought his teachings back to Japan with them.  His school of “Faxiang” Buddhism became known in Japan as the Hosso sect, and was quite popular during the 7th and 8th centuries.  Xuanzang himself, known as Genjou in Japan, would continue to be venerated as an important monk in the history of Buddhism, and his travels would eventually be popularized in fantastic ways across East Asia. Over the last couple of episodes we talked about Xuanzang's illegal and harrowing departure from the Tang empire, where he had to sneak across the border into the deserts of the Western Regions.  We then covered his time traveling from Gaochang, to Suyab, and down to Balkh, in modern Afghanistan.  This was all territory under the at least nominal control of the Gokturk empire.  From Balkh he traveled to Bamyan, and then on to Kapisa, north of modern Kabul, Afghanistan.  However, after Kapisa, Xuanzang was finally entering into the northern territories of what he knew as “India”, or “Tianzhu”. Here I would note that I'm using “India” to refer not to a single country, but to the entirety of the Indian subcontinent, and all of the various kingdoms there -- including areas now part of the modern countries of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka.  The Sinitic characters used to denote this region are pronounced, today, as “Tianzhu”, with a rough meaning of “Center of Heaven”, but it is likely that these characters were originally pronounced in such a way that the name likely came from terms like “Sindhu” or “Induka”.  This is related to the name of the Sindh or Indus river, from which India gets its name.  Xuanzang's “Record of the Western Regions” notes that the proper pronunciation of the land should be “Indu”.  In Japan, this term was transmitted through the Sinitic characters, or kanji, and pronounced as “Tenjiku”.  Since it featured so prominently in the stories of the life of the Buddha and many of the Buddhist sutras, Tenjiku was known to the people of the Japanese archipelago as a far off place that was both real and fantastical. In the 12th century, over a thousand stories were captured for the “Konjaku Monogatarishu”, or the “Collection of Tales Old and New”, which is divided up into tales from Japan, China, and India.  In the famous 9th or 10th century story, “Taketori Monogatari”, or the “Bamboo-Cutter's Tale”, about princess Kaguya hime, one of the tasks the princess sets to her suitors is to go to India to find the begging bowl of the Buddha.  Records like those produced by Xuanzang and his fellow monks, along with the stories in the sutras, likely provided the majority of what people in the Japanese archipelago knew about India, at least to begin with. Xuanzang talks about the land of India as being divided into five distinct parts—roughly the north, south, east, west, and center.  He notes that three sides face the sea and that the Snow Mountains—aka the Himalayas—are in the north.  It is, he says, “Wide in the north and narrow in the south, in the shape of a crescent moon”.  Certainly the “Wide in the north and narrow in the south” fit the subcontinent accurately enough, and it is largely surrounded by the waters of what we know as the Indian Ocean to the west, the east, and the south.  The note about the Crescent Moon might be driven by Xuanzang's understanding of a false etymology for the term “Indus”, which he claims comes from the word for “moon”.  Rather, this term appears to refer to the Indus River, also known as the Sindh or Sindhus, which comes from an ancient word meaning something like “River” or “Stream”. Xuanzang also notes that the people of the land were divided into castes, with the Brahman caste at the top of the social hierarchy.    The land was further divided into approximately 70 different countries, according to his accounts.  This is known broadly as the Early Medieval period, in India, in which the region was divided into different kingdoms and empires that rose and fell across the subcontinent, with a total size roughly equivalent to that covered by the countries of the modern European Union.  Just like Europe, there were many different polities and different languages spoken across the land – but just as Latin was the common language in Europe, due to its use in Christianity, Sanskrit was the scholarly and religious language in much of India, and could also be used as a bridge language.  Presumably, Xuanzang understood Sanskrit to some extent as a Buddhist monk.  And, just a quick note, all of this was before the introduction of Islam, though there were other religions also practiced throughout the subcontinent, but Xuanzang was primarily focused on his Buddhist studies. Xuanzang describes India as having three distinct seasons—The hot season, the rainy season, and the cold season, in that order.  Each of these were four month long periods.  Even today, the cycle of the monsoon rains is a major impact on the life of people in South Asia.  During the rainy season, the monks themselves would retreat back to their monasteries and cease their wanderings about the countryside. This tradition, called “Vassa”, is still a central practice in many Theravada Buddhist societies such as Thailand and Laos today, where they likewise experience this kind of intensely wet monsoon season. Xuanzang goes on to give an in depth analysis of the people and customs of the Indian subcontinent, as he traveled from country to country. So, as we've done before, we'll follow his lead in describing the different locations he visited. The first country of India that Xuanzang came to was the country of Lampa, or Lamapaka, thought to be modern Laghman province in Afghanistan.  At the time it was a dependency of Kapisa.  The Snow Mountains, likely meaning the Hindu Kush, the western edge of the Himalayas, lay at its north, while the “Black Mountains” surrounded it on the other three sides.  Xuanzang mentions how the people of Lampa grow non-glutinous rice—likely something similar to basmati rice, which is more prevalent in South Asian cuisine, as compared to glutinous rice like more often used in East Asia. From Lampa he headed to Nagarahara, likely referring to a site near the Kabul River associated with the ruins of a stupa called Nagara Gundi, about 4 kilometers west of modern Jalalabad, Afghanistan.  This was another vassal city-state of Kapisa.  They were still Mahayana Buddhists, but there were other religions as well, which Xuanzang refers to as “heretical”, though I'm not entirely sure how that is meant in this context.  He does say that many of the stupas were dilapidated and in poor condition. Xuanzang was now entering areas where he likely believed the historical Buddha had once walked.  In fact, Lampa was perhaps the extent of historical Buddha's travels, according to the stories and the sutras, though this seems unlikely to have been true.  The most plausible locations for the Historical Buddha's pilgrimages were along the Ganges river, which was on the other side of the subcontinent, flowing east towards modern Kolkatta and the Bengal Bay.  However, as Buddhism spread, so, too, did stories of the Buddha's travels.  And so, as far as Xuanzang was concerned, he was following in the footsteps of the Buddha. Speaking of which, at Nagarahara, Xuanzang mentions “footprints” of the Buddha.  This is a Buddhist tradition found in many places.  Xuanzang claims that the Tathagatha, the Englightened One, or the Buddha, would fly, because when he walked the land itself shook.  Footprint shapes in rock could be said to be evidence of the Buddha's travels.  Today, in many Buddhist areas you can find footprints carved into rock conforming to stories about the Buddha, such as all the toes being of the same length, or other various signs.  These may have started out as natural depressions in the rock, or pieces of artwork, but they were believed by many to be the actual point at which the Buddha himself touched down.  There are famous examples of these footprints in Sri Lanka, Thailand, and China.  Of course there are also traditions of creating images of the footprint as an object of worship.  Images of footprints, similar to images of the Great Wheel of the Law, may have been some of the earliest images for veneration, as images of the Buddha himself did not appear until much later in the tradition.  One of the oldest such footprints in Japan is at Yakushiji temple, and dated to 753.  It was created based on a rubbing brought back by an envoy to the Tang court, while they were in Chang'an. Like Buddha footprints, there are many other images and stories that show up multiple times in different places, even in Xuanzang's own narrative.  For example, in Nagarahara Xuanzang also shares a story of a cave, where an image of the Buddha could be just barely made out on the wall – maybe maybe an old carving that had just worn away, or maybe an image that was deliberately placed in the darkness as a metaphor for finding the Buddha—finding enlightenment.  This is not an uncommon theme in Buddhism as a whole.  In any case, the story around this image was that it had been placed there to subdue a naga. Now a naga is a mythical snake-like being, and  we are told that this particular naga was the reincarnation of a man who had invoked a curse on the nearby kingdom, then threw himself from a cliff in order to become a naga and sow destruction.  As the story went, the man was indeed reborn, but before he could bring destruction, the Buddha showed up and subdued him, convincing him that this was not right.  And so the naga agreed to stay in the cave, where the Buddha left an image—a shadow—to remind the naga any time that its thoughts might turn to destruction. Later in his travels, at a place name Kausambi, Xuanzang mentions another cave where the Buddha had subdued a venomous dragon and left his shadow on the cave wall.  Allowing for the possibility that the Buddha just had a particular M.O. when dealing with destructive beings, we should also consider the possibility that the story developed in one region—probably closer to the early center of Buddhism, and then traveled outward, such that it was later adopted and adapted to local traditions.  From Nagarahara, Xuanzang continued to the country of Gandhara and its capital city of Purushapura, aka modern Peshwar.  This kingdom was also under vassalage to the Kapisan king.  Here and elsewhere in the journey, Xuanzang notes not only evidence of the historical Buddha, but also monasteries and stupas purported to have been built by King Kanishka and King Asoka.  These were important figures who were held in high regard for spreading Buddhism during their reign.  Continuing through the region of Gandhara, he also passed through Udakhand and the city of Salatura, known as the birthplace of the ancient Sanskrit grammarian, Daksiputra Panini, author of the Astadhyayi [Aestudjayi].  This work is the oldest surviving description of classical Sanskrit, and used grammatical and other concepts that wouldn't be introduced into Western linguistics for eons.  Daksiputra Panini thrived around the 5th or 4th century BCE, but was likely one of the reasons that Sanskrit continued to be used as a language of scholarship and learning even as it died out of usage as the day to day language of the common people.  His works and legacy would have been invaluable to translators like Xuanzang in understanding and translating from Sanskrit. Xuanzang continued on his journey to Kashmira, situated in the Kashmir Valley.  This valley sits between the modern states of Pakistan and India, and its ownership is actively disputed by each.  It is the namesake of the famous cashmere wool—wool from the winter coats of a type of goat that was bred in the mountainous regions.  The winter coat would be made of soft, downy fibers and would naturally fall out in the spring, which the goatherds harvested and made into an extremely fine wool.  In the 7th century and earlier, however, the region was known not as much for its wool, but as a center for Hindu and Buddhist studies.  Xuanzang ended up spending two years in Kashmira studying with teachers there.  Eventually, though, he continued on, passing through the country of Rajpura, and continuing on to Takka and the city of Sakala—modern day Sialkot in the Punjab region of modern Pakistan.  Leaving Sakala, he was traveling with a group when suddenly disaster struck and they were accosted by a group of bandits.  They took the clothes and money of Xuanzang and those with him and then they drove the group into a dry pond in an attempt to corral them while they figured out what they would do—presumably meaning kill them all.  Fortunately for the group, there was a water drain at the southern edge of the pond large enough for one man to pass through.  Xuanzang and one other went through the gap and they were able to escape to a nearby village.  Once they got there, they told the people what had happened, and the villagers quickly gathered weapons and ran out to confront the brigands, who saw a large group coming and ran away.  Thus they were able to rescue the rest of Xuanzang's traveling companions.  Xuanzang's companions were devastated, having lost all of their possessions.  However, Xuanzang comforted them.  After all, they still had their lives.  By this time, Xuanzang had certainly seen his fair share of life and death problems along the road.  They continued on, still in the country of Takka, to the next great city.  There they met a Brahman, and once they told him what had happened, he started marshalling the forces of the city on their behalf.  During Xuanzang's stay in Kashmira, he had built a reputation, and people knew of the quote-unquote “Chinese monk”.  And even though the people in this region were not necessarily Buddhist—many were “heretics” likely referring to those of Hindu faith—the people responded to this pre-Internet “GoFundMe” request with incredible generosity.  They brought Xuanzang food and cloth to make into suits of clothes.  Xuanzang distributed this to his travel companions, and ended up still having enough cloth for 50 suits of clothes himself.  He then stayed at that city a month. It is odd that they don't seem to mention the name of this location.  Perhaps there is something unspeakable about it?  Still, it seems that they were quite generous, even if they were “heretics” according to Xuanzang. From the country of Takka, he next proceeded to the kingdom of Cinabhukti, where he spent 14 months—just over a year—studying with the monks there.  Once he had learned what he could, he proceeded onwards, passing through several countries in northern India until he came to the headwaters of the sacred Ganges rivers.  The Indus and the Ganges rivers are in many ways similar to the Yellow River and Yangzi, at least in regards to their importance to the people of India.  However, whereas the Yellow River and Yangzi both flow east towards the Pacific Ocean, the Indus and Ganges flow in opposite directions.  The Indus flows southwest, from the Himalayas down through modern India into modern Pakistan, emptying into the western Indian Ocean.  The Ganges flows east along the base of the Himalayas and enters the eastern Indian Ocean at Kolkatta.   At the headwaters of the Ganges, Xuanzang found a Buddhist monk named Jayagupta and chose to spend the winter and half of the following spring listening to his sermons and learning at his feet. From there he continued his travels, and ended up being summoned by King Harshavardhana of Kanyakubja, known today as the modern city of Kannauj.  Harshavardhana ruled an immense state that covered much of the territory around the sacred Ganges river.  As word of this strange monk from a far off land reached him, the King wanted to see him for himself.  Xuanzang stayed in Kannauj for three months, completing his studies of the Vibhasha Shastra, aka the Abhidarmma Mahavibhasha Shastra, known in Japanese as the Abidatsuma Daibibasharon, or just as the Daibibasharon or the Basharon, with the latter two terms referring to the translations that Xuanzang performed.   This work is not a sutra, per se, but rather an encyclopedic work that attempted to speak on all of the various doctrinal issues of its day.  It is thought to have been authored around 150 CE, and was influential in the Buddhist teachings of Kashmira, when that was a center of Orthodoxy at the time.  This is what Xuanzang had started studying, and it seems that in Kannauj he was finally able to grasp everything he felt he needed to know about it in order to effectively translate it and teach it when he returned.  That said, his quest was not over.  And after his time in Kannauj, he decided to continue on. His next stop was at the city of Ayodhya.  This was—and is—a city of particular importance in Hindu traditions.  It is said to be the city mentioned in the epic tale known as the Ramayana, though many argue that it was simply named that later in honor of that ancient city.  It does appear to be a city that the historical Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, visited and where he preached.  It was also the home of a famous monk from Gandhara who authored a number of Buddhist tomes and was considered, at least by Xuanzang, a proper Boddhisatva.  And so Xuanzang spent some time paying homage to the places where the Buddha and other holy figures had once walked. “Ayodhya” appears in many forms across Asia.  It is a major pilgrimage center, and the city of “Ayutthaya” in Thailand was named for it, evoking the Ramayana—known in Thai as the Ramakien—which they would adopt as their own national story.  In Silla, there is a story that queen Boju, aka Heo Hwang-ok, wife to the 2nd century King Suro of Geumgwan Gaya, traveled to the peninsula all the way from the foreign country of “Ayuta”, thought to mean Ayodhya.  Her story was written down in the Gaya histories and survives as a fragment found in the Samguk Yusa.  Members of the Gimhae Kim, Gimhae Heo, and Incheon Yi clans all trace their lineage back to her and King Suro. From Ayodhya, Xuanzang took a trip down the Ganges river.  The boat was packed to bursting with some 80 other travelers, and as they traveled towards a particularly heavily forested area, they were set upon by bandits, who rowed their ships out from hiding in the trees and forced the travelers to the shore.  There the bandits made all the travelers strip down and take off their clothing so that the bandits could search for gold or valuables.  According to Xuanzang's biography, these bandits were followers of Durga, a Hindu warrior-goddess, and it is said that each year they would look for someone of particularly handsome features to sacrifice to her.  With Xuanzang's foreign features, they chose him.  And so they took him to be killed.  Xuanzang mentioned that he was on a pilgrimage, and that by interrupting him before they finished he was worried it might be inauspicious for them, but he didn't put up a fight and merely asked to be given time to meditate and calm his mind and that they perform the execution quickly so that he wouldn't even notice. From there, according to the story, a series of miracles occurred that ended up with Xuanzang being released and the bandits worshipping at his feet.  It is times like this we must remember that this biography was being written by Xuanzang's students based on stories he told them about his travels.  While being accosted by bandits on the river strikes me as perfectly plausible, we don't necessarily have the most reliable narrators, so I'm going to have to wonder about the rest.  Speaking of unreliable narration, the exact route that Xuanzang traveled from here on is unclear to me, based on his stated goals and where he was going.  It is possible that he was wandering as opportunities presented themselves —I don't know that he had any kind of map or GPS, like we've said in the past.  And it may be that the routes from one place to another were not always straightforward.  Regardless, he seems to wander southeast for a period before turning again to the north and eventually reaching the city of Shravasti. Shravasti appeared in our discussion of the men of Tukhara in Episode 119.  With the men of Tukhara there was also mentioned a woman from Shravasti.  While it is unlikely that was actually the case—the names were probably about individuals from the Ryukyuan island chain rather than from India—it is probably worth nothing that Shravasti was a thriving place in ancient times.  It was at one time the capital city of the kingdom of Kosala, sharing that distinction with the city of Ayodhya, back in the 7th to 5th centuries BCE.  It is also where the historical Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, was said to have spend many years of his life.  This latter fact would have no doubt made it a place of particular importance to Xuanzang on his journeys. From there he traveled east, ending up following the foothills of the Himalayas, and finally came to some of the most central pilgrimages sites for followers of the historical Buddha.  First, he reached Lumbini wood, in modern Nepal, said to have been the birthplace of Prince Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha.  And then he visited Kushinagara, the site where the Buddha ascended to nirvana—in other words, the place where he passed away.  From there, he traveled to Varanasi, and the deer park monastery, at the place where the Buddha is said to have given one of his most famous sermons.  He even visited the Bodhi tree, the tree under which Siddhartha Gautama is said to have attained enlightenment.  He spent eight or nine days there at Bodhgaya, and word must have spread about his arrival, because several monks from the eminent Nalanda Monastery called upon him and asked him to come to the monastery with them. Nalanda Monastery was about 80 km from Bodhgaya.  This was a grand monastery and center of learning—some say that it was, for a time, the greatest in the world.  It had been founded in the 5th century by the Gupta dynasty, and many of the Gupta rulers and others donated to support the monastery, which also acted as a university.  After the fall of the Gupta dynasty, the monastery was supported by King Harsha of Kannauj, whom Xuanzang had visited earlier.  It ultimately thrived for some 750 years, and is considered by some to be the oldest residential university—meaning that students would come to the temple complex and stay in residence for years at a time to study.  According to Xuanzang, Nalanda hosted some 10,000 monks. Including hosts and guests.  They didn't only study Buddhist teachings, but also logic, grammar, medicine, and divination.  Lectures were given at more than 100 separate places—or classrooms—every day.  It was at Nalanda, that Xuanzang would meet the teacher Silabhadra, who was known as the Right Dharma Store.  Xuanzang requested that he be allowed to study the Yogacharabhumi Shastra—the Yugashijiron, in Japanese.  This is the work that Xuanzang is said to have been most interested in, and one of the works that he is credited with bringing back in one of the first full translations to the Tang dynasty and then to others in East Asia.  It is an encyclopedic work dedicated to the various forms of Yogacara practice, which focuses on the mental disciplines, and includes yoga and meditation practices.  It has a huge influence on nearly all Mahayana schools, including things like the famous Zen and Pure Land schools of Buddhism.  The Yogacharabhumi Shastra is the earliest such encyclopedic work, compiled between the 3rd and 5th centuries—so even if the monk Faxian had brought portions of it back, it was probably not in the final form that Xuanzang was able to access. Silabhadra, for his part, was an ancient teacher—some put his age at 106 years, and his son was in his 70s.  He was one of the few at Nalandra who supposedly knew all of the various texts that they had at the monastery, including the Yogacarabhumi Shastra.  Xuanzang seems to have been quite pleased to study under him.  Xuanzang stayed at the house of Silabhadra's son, Buddhabhadra, and they welcomed him with entertainment that lasted seven days.  We are told that he was then given his own lodgings, a stipend of spices, incense, rice, oil, butter, and milk, along with a servant and a Brahman.  As a visiting monk, he was not responsible for the normal monastic duties, instead being expected to spend the time in study.  Going out, he was carried around by an elephant.   This was certainly the royal treatment. Xuanzang's life at Nalandra wasn't all books: south of the monastery was the city of Rajagrha, the old capital of the kingdom of Magadha, where the ancient Gupta kings had once lived, and on occasional breaks from his studies, Xuanzang would venture out to see the various holy sites.  This included the famous Mt. Grdhrakuta, or Vulture Peak, a location said to be favored by the historical Buddha and central to the Lotus Sutra, arguably the founding document of Mahayana Buddhist tradition. After all, “Mahayana” means “Greater Vehicle” and it is in the Lotus Sutra that we see the metaphor of using different vehicles to escape a burning house.   We've already talked a bit about how the image of Vulture Peak had already become important in Japanese Buddhism: In Episode 112 we talked about how in 648, Abe no Oho-omi had drums piled up at Shitennoji in the shape of Vulture Peak. But although the sightseeing definitely enhanced his experience, Xuanzang was first and foremost there to study.  He spent 15 months just listening to his teacher expound on the Yogacarabhumi Shastra, but he also heard expositions on various other teachings as well.  He ended up studying at Nalandra Monastery for 5 years, gaining a much better understanding of Sanskrit and the various texts, which would be critically important when it came to translating them, later. But, Xuanzang was not one to stay in any one place forever, and so after 5 years—some 8 years or more into his journey, he continued on, following the Ganges east, to modern Bangladesh.  Here he heard about various other lands, such as Dvarapati—possibly referring to Dvaravati, in modern Thailand, as well as Kamalanka and Isanapura.  The latter was in modern Cambodia, the capital of the ancient Chenla kingdom.  Then Mahacampa—possibly referring to the Champa region of Vietnam—and the country of Yamanadvipa.  But there was still more of India for Xuanzang to discover, and more teachings to uncover, and so Xuanzang decided instead to head southwest, following the coast.  He heard of the country of Sinhala, referring to the island of Sri Lanka, but he was urged not to go by ship, as the long journey was perilous.  Instead he could stay on relatively dry land and head down to the southern tip of the subcontinent and then make a quick hop from there across to the island.  He traveled a long distance, all the way down to Kancipuram, the seat of the Pallava dynasty, near modern day Chennai.  From the seaport near Kancipuram, it was only three days to Sinhala—that is to say Sri Lanka—but before he could set out, he met a group of monks who had just arrived.  They told him that the king of Sinhala had died , and there was a great famine and civil disturbances.  So they had fled with some 300 other monks. Xuanzang eventually decided not to make the journey, but he did talk with the monks and gathered information on the lands to the south, on Sri Lanka, and on the islands south of that, by which I suspect he may have meant the Maldives.  While Sri Lanka is an area important to Buddhist scholarship, particularly to the Theravada schools, this likely did not impress Xuanzang, and indeed he seemed to feel that his studies in Nalanda had more than provided him what he needed.  Sri Lanka, however, is the source of the Pali canon, one of the most complete early canons of Buddhism, which had a huge influence on Theravada Buddhism in Southeast Asia and elsewhere. So Xuanzang took plenty of notes but decided to forego the ocean voyage and headed northwest, instead.  He traveled across the breadth of India to Gujarat, and then turned back east, returning to pay respects once more to his teacher in Nalanda.  While there he heard of another virtuous monk named Prajnabhadra at a nearby monastery.  And so he went to spend several months with him, as well.  He also studied with a layman, Sastrin Jayasena, at Stickwood Hill.  Jayasena was a ksatriya, or nobleman, by birth, and studied both Buddhist and non-Buddhist texts.  He was courted by kings, but had left to continue his studies.  Xuanzang studied with him for another couple of years. Xuanzang remained at Nalanda, learning and teaching, expounding on what he had learned and gathering many copies of the various documents that he wished to take back with him, though he wondered how he might do it.  In the meantime, he also acquired quite the reputation.  We are told that King Siladitya had asked Nalanda for monks who could refute Theravada teachings, and Xuanzang agreed to go.  It isn't clear, but it seems that “Siladitya” was a title, and likely referred to King Harsha of Kannauj, whom we mentioned earlier.  Since he was a foreigner, then there could be no trouble that was brought on Nalanda and the other monks if he did poorly.  While he was waiting to hear back from Siladitya's court, which was apparently taking time to arrange things, the king of Kamarupta reached out to Nalanda with a request that Xuanzang come visit them.  While Xuanzang was reluctant to be gone too long, he was eventually encouraged to go and assuage the king. Kamarupta was a kingdom around the modern Assam region, ruled by King Bhaskaravarman, also known as King Kumara, a royal title.  This kingdom included parts of Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Nepal.  Bhaskaravarman, like so many other regents, seems to have been intrigued by the presence of this foreign monk, who had traveled all this way and who had studied at the famous Nalanda Monastery in Magadha. He invited Xuanzang to come to him.  Xuanzang's teacher, Silabhadra, had exhorted him to spread the right Dharma, and to even go to those non-Buddhists in hopes that they might be converted, or at least partially swayed. King Bhaskaravarman was quite taken with Xuanzang, wining and dining him while listening to him preach.  While there, Xuanzang learned about the country of Kamarupta.  He also learned about a path north, by which it was said it was a two month journey to arrive at the land of Shu, in the Sichuan Basin, on the upper reaches of the Yangzi – a kind of shortcut back to the Tang court.  However, the journey was treacherous—possibly even more treacherous than the journey to India had been. Eventually word reached the ears of King Siladitya that Xuanzang was at the court of King Bhaskaravarman, and Siladitya got quite upset.  Xuanzang had not yet come to *his* court, so Siladitya demanded that Bhaskaravarman send the monk to him immediately.  Bhaskaravarman refused, saying he'd rather give Siladitya his own head, which Siladitya said he would gladly accept.  Bhaskaravarman realized he may have miscalculated, and so he sailed up the Ganges with a host of men and Xuanzang to meet with Siladitya.  After a bit of posturing, Siladitya met with Xuanzang, who went with him, and eventually confronted the members of the Theravada sect in debate.  Apparently it almost got ugly, but for the King's intervention.  After a particularly devastating critique of the Theravada position, the Theravada monks are blamed for trying to use violence against Xuanzang and his fellow Mahayana monks from Nalanda, who were prepared to defend themselves.  The King had to step in and break it up before it went too far. Ultimately, Xuanzang was a celebrity at this point and both kings seem to have supported him, especially as he was realizing it was about time to head back to his own country.  Both kings was offered ships, should Xuanzang wish to sail south and then up the coast.  However, Xuanzang elected to take the northern route, hoping to go back through Gaochang, and see that city and its ruler again.  And so the Kings gave him money and valuables , along with wagons for all of the texts.  They also sent an army to protect all of the treasures, and even an elephant and more – sending him back in style with a huge send-off. So Xuanzang retraced his earlier steps, this time on an elephant.  He traveled back to Taxila, to Kashmir, and beyond.  He was invited to stay in Kashmira, but because of his retinue, he wasn't quite at leisure to just go where he wanted.  At one point, near Kapisa—modern Bagram, north of Kabul—they had to cross a river, and about 50 of the almost 700 documents were lost.  The King of Kapisa heard of this and had his own monks make copies to replace them based on their own schools.  The King of Kasmira, hearing that he was in Kapisa, also came to pay his respects. Xuanzang traveled with the King of Kapisa northwest for over a month and reached Lampaka, where he did take some time to visit the various holy sites before continuing northwest.  They had to cross the Snow Mountains—the outskirts of the Himalayas, and even though it wasn't the highest part of the range it was still challenging.  He had to dismount his elephant and travel on foot.  Finally, after going over the high mountains and coming down, he arrived back in the region of Tukhara, in the country of Khowst.  He then came to Kunduz, and paid his respects to the grandson of Yehu Khan.  He was given more guards to escort him eastward, traveling with some merchants.  This was back in Gokturk controlled lands, over a decade later than when he had last visited.  He continued east to Badakshan, stopping there for a month because of the cold weather and snow.  He eventually traveled through the regions of Tukhara and over the Pamir range.  He came down on the side of the Tarim Basin, and noted how the rivers on one side flowed west, while on the other side they flowed east.  The goings were treacherous, and at one point they were beset by bandits.  Though he and the documents were safe, his elephant panicked and fled into the river and drowned.  He eventually ended up in the country of Kashgar, in modern Xinjiang province, at the western edge of the Taklamakan desert. From there he had two options.  He could go north and hug the southern edge of the Tianshan mountains, or he could stay to the south, along the northern edge of the Himalayan range and the Tibetan plateau.  He chose to go south.  He traveled through Khotan, a land of wool and carpets.  This was a major trade kingdom, and they also grew mulberry trees for silkworms, and were known for their jade.  The king himself heard of Xuanzang and welcomed him, as many others had done.  While he was staying at the Khotanese capital, Xuanzang penned a letter to the Tang court, letting them know of his journey, and that he was returning.  He sent it with some merchants and a man of Gaochang to deliver it to the court. Remember, Xuanzang had left the Tang empire illegally.  Unless he wanted to sneak back in his best hope was that the court was willing to forgive and forget all of that, given everything that he was bringing back with him.  The wait was no doubt agonizing, but he did get a letter back.  It assured him that he was welcome back, and that all of the kingdoms from Khotan back to the governor of Dunhuang had been made aware and were ready to receive him. With such assurances, Xuanzang packed up and headed out.  The king of Khotan granted him more gifts to help see him on his way.  Nonetheless, there was still a perilous journey ahead.  Even knowing the way, the road went through miles and miles of desert, such that in some places you could only tell the trail by the bleached bones of horses and travelers who had not been so fortunate.  Eventually, however, Xuanzang made it to the Jumo River and then on to Dunhuang, from whence he was eventually escorted back to the capital city. It was now the year 645, the year of the Isshi Incident in Yamato and the death of Soga.  Xuanzang had been gone for approximately 16 years.  In that time, the Tang had defeated the Gokturks and taken Gaochang, expanding their control over the trade routes in the desert.  Xuanzang, for his part, was bringing back 657 scriptures, bound in 520 bundles carried by a train of some 20 horses.  He was given a hero's welcome, and eventually he would be set up in a monastery where he could begin the next part of his journey:  Translating all of these books. This was the work of a lifetime, but it is one that would have a profound impact on Buddhism across East Asia.  Xuanzang's translations would revolutionize the understanding of Mahayana Buddhist teachings, and students would come from as far away as the Yamato court to study under him and learn from the teacher who studied and taught at none other than Nalanda monastery itself.  His school would become popular in the Yamato capital, and the main school of several temples, at least for a time.  In addition, his accounts and his biography would introduce many people to the wider world of central and south Asia.  While I could go on, this has already been a story in three parts, and this is, after all, the Chronicles of Japan, so we should probably tune back into what is going on with Yamato.  Next episode, we'll look at one of the most detailed accounts we have of a mission to Chang'an. Until then, I hope that this has been enjoyable.  Xuanzang's story is one of those that isn't just about him, but about the interconnected nature of the entire world at the time.  While his journey is quite epic, there were many people traveling the roads, though most of them didn't write about it afterwards.  People, artifacts, and ideas traveled much greater distances than we often consider at this time, well before any kind of modern travel.  It was dangerous, but often lucrative, and it meant that various regions could have influence well beyond what one might expect. And so, thank you once again for listening and for all of your support. 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If you've ever been curious about Aum, this episode is just for you. I'm thrilled to have Indu Arora back on the show as we dive deep into the essence of Aum—its meaning, its significance for yoga practitioners, and the difference between Om and Aum. We explore when and how each syllable should be chanted for maximum benefit and how each one plays a role in creation, sustenance, and dissolution. Indu shares how Aum exists as both a mantra and a symbol, and how these two aspects influence our practice and daily lives.Episode Highlights:Why is Aum so significant in yoga practice?What is the difference between Om and Aum?Aum as a Sound, Mantra, and SymbolHow do the three syllables A, U, and M relate to different states of consciousness?When should we chant Aum versus using its symbol?Is there a more potent way to chant Aum—out loud or silently?How can we integrate Aum into daily life and yoga practice?Pranayama Yoga Teacher TrainingJoin our mailing listFind all the resources mentioned in this episodeConnect with us on Instagram

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In this episode, Indu Arora returns to explore the profound topic of enlightenment, or Samadhi, in yoga. Through an engaging and insightful discussion, she unpacks the concept of Samadhi as a state of total absorption and balance, achieved through consistent practice, silence, and discernment. Indu delves into the types of Samadhi described in yogic texts, the role of preparatory practices like pratyahara and dhyana, and the importance of cultivating humility and clarity on this path. She emphasizes that enlightenment is not a fleeting magical event but a process of everyday courage and sincerity, offering ripple effects of harmony within individuals and the wider world.Episode Highlights:Understanding enlightenment (Samadhi) in yogaIs Samadhi temporary?Types of SamadhiThe Role of Silence (Mauna)The importance of enlightenmentIs enlightenment for everyone?Ego and enlightenmentQualities of a SeekerHard work is always valuable.Pranayama Yoga Teacher TrainingPranayama Yoga Teacher Training Info SessionJoin our mailing listFind all the resources mentioned in this episodeConnect with us on Instagram