Aaron Back

Global Editor of The Wall Street Journal's Heard on the Street column.

Previously with @wsj in Beijing and Hong Kong.

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Now this is a basketball game

[Josh Billinson @jbillinson]

Jalen Brunson is going to trap them in the tunnels underneath the city like Bane

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I’m team Diet Coke. That is all

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So glad I checked my phone for this update

[Barak Ravid @BarakRavid]

🚨🚨🚨Scoop: President Trump tells me he's "solid 50/50" on Iran deal or bombing. Trump said he will meet senior advisers today to discuss latest draft agreement and may make a decision by tomorrow. My story on @axios
https://t.co/jDHZtqUqT4

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@MattZeitlin Can I do index funds instead?

[Nick Kapur @nick_kapur]

Ahahaha this is amazing

[mr_eggs @scrumble_eggs]

Admit it. You assumed that Dr. Pepper was a man. You didn’t even consider that Dr. Pepper could be a woman.

[Damien Ma @damienics]

Jensen's trips are half about chips and half Anthony Bourdain No Reservations but fixated on noodles.

Man can't get enough noodles. Should have a Jensen star system of ranking noodle joints, would drive a lot of business

[Heard on the Street @WSJheard]

Some dream of a cancer-detection "holy grail" -- the ability to test for a broad range of cancers with a single blood test.

But the more immediate opportunity is using blood tests to detect when cancers return after surgery.

https://t.co/BvT0Qgr4oQ

[Jonathan Weil @JonathanWeil]

The More You Know About This Private-Credit Fund, the Less You Understand | My latest @WSJ @WSJheard $OBDC $OWL https://t.co/bqRg2ahnJq

[Keith Humphreys @KeithNHumphreys]

Very important lesson for Blue Cities here: Every change Lurie has made has been opposed by screaming, bullying activists -- ignoring them has been the path to policy success and extremely high popularity. @skaushik100
https://t.co/sWctBukXM8

[Heard on the Street @WSJheard]

Heard on the Street: All roads lead back to TSMC.

No matter how you slice it, Taiwan's chip-making giant is an AI winner.

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Restarted firing, but it’s not an end to the ceasefire. Got it.

[*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone]

FOX NEWS REPORTER: SENIOR US OFFICIAL SAYS NOT END TO THE CEASEFIRE WITH IRAN

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Damn I miss this team

[SNY Mets @SNY_Mets]

10 years ago today, Bartolo Colon made the impossible happen.

[Sammy 'Ace' Rothstein @shortbus_ace]

Axios is close to acquiring a nuclear weapon

[Heard on the Street @WSJheard]

Memory-chip stocks are notoriously volatile. Could this time be different? @djtgallagher makes the case:

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It had a good run, almost two full days

[First Squawk @FirstSquawk]

TRUMP: PROJECT FREEDOM WILL BE PAUSED

[Jessica Toonkel @jtoonkel]

SCOOP: James Murdoch in Talks to Buy Vox’s New York Magazine and Podcast Division https://t.co/8lU5kmJPxG via @WSJ

[Heard on the Street @WSJheard]

At 18 times earnings, Meta is trading at its cheapest multiple in years. But that is for good reason.

https://t.co/PDAMpnMmue

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Kasparov: In Russia, tsars and dictators are forgiven everything except a bad war. If the war goes well, nobody cares how many die.

But when the ruler cannot win, discontent begins. That is the law of Russian history, and we are seeing it again now. 1/