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Nobel laureate now heading Bangladesh's interim govt said Hasina's government faked the country's growth data "and nobody questioned that".
WTO director-general Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala warned that tariffs of 25% or 60% could trigger tit-for-tat reprisals that return the world to the economic crisis of the 1930s
Tech giant, which owns TikTok, but may soon be permitted its sell its US arm, will spend half of that amount abroad on AI-related infrastructure, such as data centres and networking equipment, sources say
Trump noted on his first day in office the de minimis law, which allows over a billion products to be mailed to the US every year, is unlikely to survive for long
In 2022, while lithium prices were soaring to life-time highs, CATL intervened in the market by opening a huge lithium hub in China. Prices have since slumped 86%
Trump announced the deal with OpenAI's Sam Altman, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son and Oracle founder Larry Ellison, saying it is the "largest AI infrastructure project in history"
Trump has ordered US agencies to review US trade deficits, unfair trade practices and currency manipulation; fentanyl is also a hot topic.
Before we head into Donald Trump’s first full day in office on Tuesday, here’s a look at what his first day back as president meant for technology, climate and markets
Currency traders and stock markets have been rocked by Trump's return to the White House, which has brought joy and disappointment. Investors are still trying to envision how things will play out
JPMorgan set up a “war room” to assess the impact of Trump’s policies on global trade, regulation and other matters, an executive told a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos
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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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