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A month-end scramble for cash and a flood of government bond sales triggered an overnight record surge in rate for pledged repo on October 31
Chinese officials got access to TikTok's most secret internal documents, according to a new report, but the popular app's biggest headache is now in Southeast Asia
Positive signals from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell that borrowing rates may have peaked fuelled a regional rally
The US Treasury has imposed sanctions on Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise, the ruling junta's main source of foreign revenue, in a bid to stop the military's deadly attacks on civilians
A former central bank official has warned the Bank of Japan might phase out stimulus by next month if pressure continues to mount on its currency and prices
Andrew Ng, one of the founders of Google Brain and a Stanford University professor, warns that Big Tech companies are keen to trigger heavy regulation to reduce competition in the AI sector
Berkshire’s latest stake sale in BYD came on the heels of the EV-maker’s financial results this week, in which the carmaker reported its highest-ever quarterly profit
At a twice-a-decade financial policy meeting this week, Beijing vowed to uphold the centralised and unified leadership of the CCP on China's financial work
Asia’s investors were keeping their powder dry ahead of the Fed’s latest rates announcement while the yen was under pressure again
The move, proposed in a new debt-restructuring plan for offshore bondholders with about $19 billion of debt, would involve shares in its property services and new-energy-vehicle units, sources say
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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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