Top Stories; Japan's Nikkei crosses 44,000 to hit fresh highs, extending rally after Ishiba's resignation announcement
Top Stories — Tuesday, September 9, 2025
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- Japan's Nikkei crosses 44,000 to hit fresh highs, extending rally after Ishiba's resignation announcement — CNBC
- Trump says Democrats have 'blood on their hands' after deadly Charlotte train stabbing — Fox News
- China's Renewable Energy Investment Helping Stem Fossil Fuel Growth, Report Says — nyt News
Japan's Nikkei crosses 44,000 to hit fresh highs, extending rally after Ishiba's resignation announcement
Source: CNBC • Published: 9/9/2025, 5:54:21 AM
Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 jumped 0.9% to a record high, notching a second straight day of gains after the country's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba announced his resignation Sunday. The Topix rose 0.52%.
"Investors are betting that the next leader from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) could unleash a new wave of fiscal stimulus to bolster the economy," XTB Investing's senior market analyst Hani Abuagla wrote in a note.
The Japanese yen strengthened 0.1% to 147.38 against the greenback.
Broader Asia-Pacific markets traded mostly higher Tuesday, tracking Wall Street gains boosted by tech stocks.
South Korea's Kospi added 0.35%, while the small-cap Kosdaq rose 0.19%.
Australia's benchmark S&P/ASX 200 slid 0.29%.
Futures for Hong Kong's Hang Seng index stood at 25,643, marginally higher than its last close of 25,633.91.
Overnight stateside, the three major averages closed higher. The Nasdaq Composite closed at a record high as investors geared up for a data-heavy week that includes two closely watched readings on inflation.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq finished up 0.45% at 21,798.70, a record high after hitting a new all-time intraday high in the session. The S&P 500, meanwhile, settled up 0.21% at 6,495.15, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 114.09 points, or 0.25%, to close at 45,514.95.
The move higher was led by a rise in shares of chipmaker Broadcom, which gained 3%, and artificial intelligence darling Nvidia, whose almost 1% advance reversed some of its steep losses from the past month. Amazon and Microsoft were also higher.
— CNBC's Brian Evans and Sean Conlon contributed to this report.
Trump says Democrats have 'blood on their hands' after deadly Charlotte train stabbing
Source: Fox News • Published: 9/9/2025, 5:32:42 AM
President Donald Trump said that "blood is on the hands of the Democrats" after the brutal stabbing of a Ukrainian refugee in Charlotte, North Carolina, who was attacked and killed on a light rail train by a man with a lengthy criminal history last month.
Social media exploded over the weekend after surveillance footage, released by the Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS), showed 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska boarding a Lynx Blue line last month before a man pulled out a knife and began stabbing Zarutska three times, including at least once in the neck.
"The blood of this innocent woman can literally be seen dripping from the killer's knife, and now her blood is on the hands of the Democrats who refuse to put bad people in jail, including Former Disgraced Governor and 'Wannabe Senator' Roy Cooper," Trump said on Truth Social. "North Carolina, and every State, needs LAW AND ORDER, and only Republicans will deliver it! Additionally, where is the outrage from the Mainstream Media on this horrible tragedy? VOTE FOR MICHAEL WHATLEY FOR UNITED STATES SENATE, HE WON'T LET THIS HAPPEN AGAIN!"
Suspect in the motion of stabbing the victim aboard the train next to a photo of President Donald Trump. (NewsNation via Charlotte Area Transit System; AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Earlier in the day, the White House posted reaction from Trump on X.com, saying, "The perpetrator was a well known career criminal, who had been previously arrested and released on CASHLESS BAIL in January, a total of 14 TIMES. What the hell was he doing riding the train, and walking the streets? Criminals like this need to be LOCKED UP."
The suspect, identified as 34-year-old Decarlos Brown, was arrested shortly after the stabbing and hospitalized before being arrested on a charge of first-degree murder. Records obtained by The New York Post showed that Brown has a history of arrests going back more than a decade, including charges of felony larceny, robbery with a dangerous weapon and communicating threats. Police said Brown did not know Zarutska and the attack was random.
By taking aim at the Democratic former Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina, Trump directly injected the tragedy into the center of the upcoming U.S. senate race in North Carolina, slated for next year. Cooper and Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley are the two major front-runners.
On Monday, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) echoed Trump's argument, insisting Cooper's policies "kept violent criminals like this on the streets instead of in jail where they belong."
RNC Chair Michael Whatley announces his run for Senator for North Carolina on July 31st, 2025.
Meanwhile, Whatley said in a X post on Monday that "a vote for Roy Cooper is a vote for more crime, more violence, more criminals."
He followed up later in the day after Trump's Truth Social post, adding that the president was "spot on" with his assessment of Democrats.
"My far-left opponent Roy Cooper's spineless, soft-on-crime policies have unleashed predators like Decarlos Brown Jr. and countless other violent thugs who unleash hell on innocent people because they know they'll face no real justice," Whatley said.
Fox News Digital reached out to the Cooper campaign for comment, but did not immediately receive a response. The former governor announced his run at the end of July in a video posted to social media.
A Fox News analysis of Cooper's social media did not uncover any posts about the incident. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee's social media does not appear to have any comments on the matter, either.
Former Democratic North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, who, last month, threw his hat in the ring for the U.S. Senate.
North Carolina's Gov. Josh Stein, a Democrat, was slammed over the weekend, when the video of the stabbing was first released, for not speaking out earlier. He finally commented on the matter Monday morning.
"I am heartbroken for the family of Iryna Zarutska, who lost their loved one to this senseless act of violence, and I am appalled by the footage of her murder. We need more cops on the beat to keep people safe," Stein posted on X.
"That's why my budget calls for more funding to hire more well-trained police officers. I call upon the legislature to pass my law enforcement recruitment and retention package to address vacancies in our state and local agencies so they can stop these horrific crimes and hold violent criminals accountable."
During a tour of the Museum of the Bible in the nation's capital on Monday, Trump weighed in on the event once again after the video of the attack surfaced over the weekend.
"We're all people of religion, but there are evil people," Trump said. "And we have to confront that."
Fox News' Andrew Mark Miller and Stephen Sorace contributed to this report.
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China's Renewable Energy Investment Helping Stem Fossil Fuel Growth, Report Says
Source: nyt News • Published: 9/9/2025, 5:30:07 AM
Since the beginning of the industrial age, the global economy has required more and more fossil fuels — coal, oil and gas — to power growth.
It is increasingly clear, however, that China's aggressive efforts to sell batteries, solar panels and wind turbines to the world is on course to bring that era to an end, a new report says. The Chinese dominance of clean-energy industries is "creating the conditions for a decline in fossil fuel use," according to a report by Ember, a research group focused on the prospects for clean-energy technologies.
The report includes a sprawling set of data to support its claim.
Monthly electricity generation in China, 12-month rolling total
Note: Other clean sources include hydroelectricity, nuclear and biofuels
By Harry Stevens/The New York Times
The scale of Chinese production since 2010 has driven the price of these technologies down by 60 to 90 percent, the researchers found. And last year, more than 90 percent of wind and solar projects commissioned worldwide produced power more cheaply than the cheapest available fossil-fuel alternative, they said. That cost advantage might have seemed laughable before China began pumping billions of dollars of subsidies into the sector.
"China is the engine," said Richard Black, the report's editor. "And it is changing the energy landscape not just domestically but in countries across the world."
If Beijing is trying to wrest the future of energy from anyone, it would be the United States, the world's biggest oil and gas producer and exporter. The Trump administration has eliminated almost all federal support for renewable energies and has pressured countries to purchase American fossil fuels as part of trade deals.
Share of electricity demand growth met by different sources
Note: Fossil fuels include mostly coal with small amounts of oil and natural gas
By Harry Stevens/The New York Times
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