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The Nikkei index in Tokyo saw a second straight weekly loss, down 3.4% over the past five sessions, as it pulled back from an all-time high of 41,087.75
China's factory production is more than the global market can bear, Yellen said in meetings on Friday at the start of her six-day visit to China
Chinese tech giant faces a criminal trial in the US after talks failed to settle a years-long dispute over misleading banks about its business in Iran and allegations of trade secret theft
Sources say the Biden Administration plans to press the Dutch government and bosses of the lithography giant next week to reduce the servicing of its machines at some sites in China
The key driver of the profit growth would be Samsung’s chip division, which is expected to report its first quarterly profit in five quarters
The three state entities were among 57 fossil fuel and cement producers responsible for the bulk of the world's CO2 emissions since 2016, researchers said on Thursday
Tokyo’s benchmark passed the 40,000 again before retreating at the close on a subdued day of trading with Shanghai and Hong Kong closed
Chinese regulators and the State Council reportedly blocked the planned flotation because of concerns about sapping liquidity from its market
The country's parliamentary elections are set to begin this month and the incumbent Narendra Modi-government is hoping to gain a resounding victory
Increasing doubts over a Fed U-turn on rates and a powerful earthquake that could impact on chip supply chains weighed on sentiment
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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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