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Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado met today with President Trump at the White House and she presented her Nobel Peace Prize to the president.

Here is Machado speaking earlier to reporters.

That is Maria Carino Machado, the opposition leader of Venezuela.

And she went on to say that Venezuelans are counting on President Trump for the country's freedom.

The meeting comes as U.S.

forces seized a sixth oil tanker near Venezuela earlier today.

The U.S.

and Taiwan have agreed to a trade deal.

It will lower tariffs to 15 percent from the previous 20 percent, and U.S.

tariffs on goods from Taiwan are now on par with both Japan and South Korea.

Also, as a part of this deal, Taiwan's semiconductor companies will make at least $250 billion in direct investments

toward American energy and artificial intelligence operations.

Here is Bloomberg's Michael Shepard.

That is Bloomberg's Michael Shepard.

China is pulling the plug on a key advantage held by high-frequency traders.

We are told commodity futures exchanges in Shanghai and Guangzhou are among those ordering local brokerage firms to shift their servers for clients out of data centers run by the exchanges.

Now, this change will affect the speed advantage for high-frequency firms, including Citadel, Chain Street and Jump Trading.

Democratic Senator Alyssa Slotkin of Michigan is being investigated after she organized and appeared in a video with other Democrats urging military service members to resist illegal orders.

Slotkin said the office of the U.S.