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"Although stock markets have performed strongly in May, just in the last week it seems very stressed," one analyst said, pointing to investor jitters on inflation expectations
Fast fashion e-commerce retailers face rules that apply to Meta, Google, X and TikTok, as their average monthly users in Europe top a key threshold
TikTok’s Chinese parent company has ordered engineers to split the app's recommendation algorithm — a tedious task involving millions of lines of code, according to a new report
While some were quick to mock the outcome, others noted that the case casts a dark shadow over China's tightly controlled legal system
After five months of inflows, foreign investment in emerging markets fell in April, according to the Institute of International Finance
Industrial activity declined in May in another sign that the $18.6 trillion economy is struggling to get back on its feet
The latest halt in the global risk rally comes on the back of data pointing to lingering inflationary pressures across major economies
The news comes amid one of the worst H5N1 outbreaks in the recent years, with bird flu detected in poultry farms in 48 states and dairy herds in nine states.
A record number of global funds have been issued under the Qualified Domestic Limited Partner (QDLP) programme amid high demand for foreign assets
Solid-state batteries hold the promise of improved safety, a longer lifespan and faster charging compared with conventional lithium-ion batteries, but mass adoption remains some way off
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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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