16 Jan 2026:  S&P 500: 6,940.01  🔻 0.06% NASDAQ Composite: 23,515.39  🔻 0.06% SOX: PHLX Semiconductor Index: 7,927.41  ▲ 1.15%    Portfolio: USD 19.588 million = AUD 29.301 million  🔻 0.388% AAPL: Apple: 255.53  🔻 1.038% AMZN: Amazon: 239.12  ▲ 0.395% GOOG: Alphabet Class C: 330.34  🔻 0.846% GOOGL: Alphabet Class A: 330.00  🔻 0.835% IBM: IBM: 305.67  ▲ 2.591% IONQ: IonQ: 50.80  ▲ 6.812% META: Meta Platforms: 620.25  🔻 0.089% NVDA: Nvidia: 186.23  🔻 0.438% PLTR: Palantir: 170.96  🔻 3.451% QBTS: D-Wave Quantum: 28.83  ▲ 0.383% RGTI: Rigetti: 25.62  ▲ 3.725% TSLA: Tesla: 437.50  🔻 0.244%   AUD/USD  🇦🇺 : 🇺🇸 16 Jan 2026: 0.66850225 📉 🚀 Spacex 2026IPOs: Spacex (USD 30-40bn), OpenAI, Anthropic 🇺🇸 USA Mid Term Election: 3 Nov 2026🇺🇸 GDP Q3/2025: +4.3% [BEA]🌏 S&P Global Investment Manager Index (IMI) Sep 2025 🇺🇸 US Imminent Liquidity Crisis 2026? 6 Nov 2025Foreign Central Banks Are Dumping US Debt: 20 Dec 2025US Historical Debt  ⚙️ Manufacturing PMI:  🇦🇺 PMI: 52.2 Dec 2025 [51.6 Nov 2025]   🇺🇸 US Economy🇺🇸 US Economy: Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index (PCE) [Sep 2025: +2.8%] [BEA]🇺🇸 Consumer Sentiment (UMich) Jan 2026: 54.0 [Dec 2025: 52.9]🇺🇸 Employment Situation (Jobs Report) Dec 2025 [BLS: 9 Jan 2026]   🇦🇺 Australian EconomyMYEFO: 2025/2026 [17 Dec 2025] - Deficit: $36.8 billion, Gross Debt Forecast: AUD 993bn = 37.0% of GDP, 2026/2027: AUD 1,069bn = 35.4% of GDP, 2027/2028: AUD 1,161bn = 36.9% of GDP, 2028/2029: AUD 1,223bn = 36.8% of GDP, GDP - Year to Sep 2025: +1.7% [ABS: Dec 2025]Unemployment: 4.3% [ABS: Nov 2025]S&P Global Australia Manufacturing PMI: Nov 2025: 51.6Consumer Price Index: Year to Oct 2025 Quarter: 3.8%Productivity Commission advises Treasurer to lower company tax rate [ABC 1 Aug 2025] 🌎 Sovereign Wealth Funds target = 'news'>   🇺🇸 US Government DebtUSD 38.375 trillion [23 Dec 2025]. Debt/GDP = 120%-125%   🇺🇸 US Government Monetary Policy: 30 Dec 2025. [FOMC Minutes] [FOMC Statement]USD 38.375 trillion [23 Dec 2025].   🇺🇸 Australian Government DebtTotal Government: AUD 85.1 billion. Debt/GDP = 31.7% of GDP [24 Dec 2025]   🇦🇺 Australian CurrencyRBA OCR unchanged again: 3.60% [9 Dec 2025]   RoboticsUnitree Robotics  ⏯️ Conversation  ⏯️ Development   QuantumD-Wave Announces Formation of U.S. Government Business Unit: 2 Dec 2025Nvidia’s New Product Merges AI Supercomputing with Quantum: [WSJ] 28 Oct 2025D-Wave Advantage 2 European Growth: [Market Beat] 21 Oct 2025Quantum supremacy: Google ran an algorithm on its Willow quantum chip that is verifiable and 13,000 times faster than today's best supercomputers [Google Quantum] 22 Oct 2025D-Wave Advantage 2 European Growth: [Market Beat] 21 Oct 2025D-Wave + IonQ: Q-Alliance - The Birth of the World’s Most Powerful Quantum Hub - Italy: 14 Oct 2025National Quantum Initiative Reauthorization Act: 22 Sep 2025Nvidia invests USD 1 billion in PsiQuantum [10 Sep 2025]Rigetti Demonstrates Industry’s Largest Multi-Chip Quantum Computer; Halves Two-Qubit Gate Error Rate: 16 Jul 2025Quantum computing over the next five years: Scenario planning for strategic resilience: Deloitte 11 Aug 2025D-Wave Completes USD 400 million fund raise: 1 Jul 2025   AI[S&P Global: 14 Dec 2025][AI Weekly: 4 Dec 2025]Anthropic, Google Discuss Multibillion-Dollar Cloud Deal [Bloomberg: 22 Oct 2025]Jensen Huang: Nvidia + OpenAI [CNBC: 9 Oct 2025]Microsoft Agentic AI [Bloomberg Technology: 30 Sep 2025]Nvidia will invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI [Reuters 22 Sep 2025]D-Wave Introduces New Developer Tools to Advance Quantum AI Exploration and Innovation: 4 Aug 2025🇦🇺 Biological AI🇺🇸 StarGate [USD 500 billion]❗️ GPT-5 [Sam Altman]: 7 Aug 2025🇺🇸 Pentagon's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) Awards Up to USD200 Million in Contracts for AI to Google, OpenAI, XAI, Anthropic: 14 Jul 2025A16Z 50 Leading AI Companies 27 Aug 2025  ⏯️ Top 100 [Gen AI] Consumer Apps: 2 Sep 2025  ⏯️ Bloomberg AI: 2 Sep 2025CrowdStrike 2025 Global Threat Report   AI AvatarsSynthesia: 23 Dec 2025   GPU+AIGPU Nvidia unveils Rubin, a new AI supercomputing platform [ZDNet 6 Jan 2026]GPU US allows Nvdia to sell H200 Chips to China [Bloomberg 10 Dec 2025]AGI: Artificial General Intelligence ⏯️ Tesla xAI Colossus 2 (1 million Nvidia GPUs)Robotics+AINvidia Cosmos Transfer 2.5, Cosmos Predict 2.5, Cosmos Reason 2Tesla Optimus Gen 3Seeking AlphaWSJReutersMilitary DronesDrone Tactics: Ukraine State Street⏯️ The Street⏯️ Bloomberg⏯️ Business News Live⏯️ Businessweek Daily: 16 Jan 2026⏯️ Wall Street Week: 17 Jan 2026⏯️ Brief: 16 Jan 2026⏯️ Open Interest: 16 Jan 2025⏯️ Opening Trade: 16 Jan 2026⏯️ Technology: 16 Jan 2026⏯️ Markets: 16 Jan 2026⏯️ The Pulse: 16 Jan 2026⏯️ Surveillance: 16 Jan 2026⏯️ Insight: 16 Jan 2026⏯️ DayBreak Europe: 16 Jan 2026⏯️ Balance of Power: 16 Jan 2026⏯️ The Close: 16 Jan 2026⏯️ The Asia Trade: 16 Jan 2026⏯️ The China Show: 15 Jan 2026