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

Machado said Venezuelans are counting on the president for her country's freedom.

Now, this meeting comes as U.S.

forces seized a sixth oil tanker near Venezuela earlier today.

Shale billionaire Harold Hamm said oil companies need guarantees that their assets will not be seized by Venezuela if they help revive the nation's crude production.

Harold Hamm speaking on Bloomberg Surveillance.

The U.S.

and Taiwan have agreed to a trade deal.

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

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

As a part of this deal, Taiwan semiconductor companies will be making 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.

Now, the U.S.

trade deal with Taiwan comes as TSMC, the world's top maker of AI chips, earmarked a hefty increase in capital spending for 2026.

Here is Bloomberg analyst Matthew Bloxham.

That is Matthew Bloxham from Bloomberg Intelligence.

President Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act as protests against federal immigration agents grow in Minnesota.