Overnight coverage stayed with the previous evening's budget compromise, reporting open revolt in the Union over the abandoned electricity-tax cut for 2027, with more than 30 MPs critical, the CDU cast as the loser and Merz's credibility questioned.
By early afternoon editors converged almost unanimously on Nvidia, reporting chief Jensen Huang had resigned with immediate effect over an affair with a suspected Chinese spy, followed by a double-digit share slump wiping out hundreds of billions and the naming of interim successor Colette Kress.
Evening attention shifted to the auto industry, with Mercedes freezing all German investment and threatening plant closures amid a dispute with IG Metall over longer hours and lower pay, framed as a power struggle also involving VW, while budget reporting warned of a coming heat zone for the coalition.