By Ross Kerber
Jan 7 (Reuters) - This is the weekly Reuters Sustainable Finance Newsletter, which you can sign up for here .
Happy 2026. Over the New Year holiday I read an advance copy of a book on U.S. President Donald Trump's leadership style, but I didn't expect just how central the topic would become with Saturday's capture of Venezuela's president by U.S. forces.
The timing paid off with the interview I did with the book's authors, which you can read about in this week's column below. The column contains a link for the publisher's website about the soon-to-be-published book.
This newsletter also includes coverage of an antitrust probe in India and what to look for at the Consumer Technology Association's annual CES trade show in Las Vegas, baby.
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Venezuela capture follows 'Trump's Ten Commandments' by the book
U.S. President Donald Trump's order for the U.S. military to capture Venezuela's president over the weekend looks in line with many of his other recent moves, foregoing bipartisan agreements and international alliances in favor of direct actions carried out with murky or shifting justifications.
Trump's decision-making process and management style have remained consistent, say two Yale leadership scholars in a new book, Trump's Ten Commandments. They call the president's understanding of authority that of "a tribal chieftain blended with the necessary fluidity and creative chaos of a business entrepreneur." In other words, a family businessman who should not be underestimated.
You can read my interview with Yale's Jeffrey Sonnenfeld by clicking here, and don't miss the included video Q&A.
Company news
India's Tata Steel,TISC.NS JSW Steel JSTL.NS and 26 other firms colluded on prices in breach of the country's antitrust law, a competition watchdog found according to this Reuters EXCLUSIVE report.
Even as automakers cut back on plans for electric vehicles, auto suppliers and startups are heavily pitching AI-backed autonomous driving technology, according to our PREVIEW of the CES trade show in Las Vegas.
Controversies about big tech companies' depreciation schedules are worrying, according to this REUTERS OPEN INTEREST column, citing cases including at Nvidia NVDA.O and Oracle.ORCL.N
On my radar
The owners of Chinese AI system DeepSeek agreed to improved disclosures about "hallucinations" in order to end an investigation by Italian regulators.
Hilton Worldwide Holdings HLT.N said it kicked out of its system a Minneapolis hotel that had refused bookings from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
(Reporting by Ross Kerber; Editing by David Gregorio)
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