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President eyes hiking tariffs amid a push for blue-collar votes on a visit to Pittsburgh, the 'Steel City', as China boosts steel and car exports
With Japanese firms now wary about investing in China, the US's economic resilience has proven too strong to ignore
IMF chief economist says China’s economy is strained by its property crisis and warns that domestic demand will stay weak until strong action is taken to remedy that
Japan’s impending earning season saw investors rushing to cash in while Hong Kong shares were unaffected by new market regulations
'Ernie Bot' is China’s most popular chatbot. Baidu earned several hundred million yuan using AI in the fourth quarter of last year
Escalating tensions in the Middle East and the threat of open conflict between Israel and Iran also darkened the mood on trading floors
A new report, by chip expert Chris Miller, said shipments from China accounted for 88% of the chips Russia acquired, measured by dollar value, in the first half of 2023
Scholz pressed his case for an open and fair European market for Chinese cars but warned against dumping, overproduction and intellectual property infringements
Escalating tensions in the Middle East put pressure on equities while gold and the US dollar strengthened
China's Securities Regulatory Commission says it will bolster its supervision of company listings, delistings and computer-driven programme trading
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With a market cap of$240 billion, chipmaker ASML is Europe’s most valuable tech company. Its market-leading position comes from its monopoly in Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUV) machines which allow chipmakers to make smaller, faster and smarter semiconductors
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Oil & GasIndia Is Likely Exporting Refined Russian Oil to the WestIndia’s fast-rising Russian oil imports are being matched by its rising oil exports suggesting it may be reselling Russia’s oil to the West.
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MarketsApple Asks Suppliers in Taiwan to Meet China Label StandardsUS tech giant Apple told its Taiwan suppliers that products moving to China must be labelled to state that the island is a part of China and not an independent nation
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MarketsIndian-Owned Tech Firms See Sharp Growth in UKDespite a moribund British economy and heavy corporate tax, Indian-owned tech firms are growing in the UK.
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MarketsChina Becomes World’s Second-Biggest Bitcoin Mining HubThe Bitcoin mining ban in China last year had collapsed its crypto markets. Despite that, the country has reemerged as a major bitcoin mining hub, according to research by the UK's University of Cambridge.
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