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Progress in Washington on critical debt ceiling talks lifted the mood in Asia but worries over China’s recovery still weighed despite upbeat factory numbers
An unstable economic recovery and Sino-US tensions are risk factors putting investors off, said researchers at Preqin
Among the critics of the viral technology were Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio – two of the three so-called "godfathers of AI”
Musk is expected to meet several senior Chinese officials and visit Tesla's Shanghai plant later in the week
Disappointing factory data out of China are another blow to the recovery hopes of the world’s manufacturing hub, dampening the mood on trading floors
The manufacturing purchasing managers' index fell to a five-month low of 48.8, the Statistics Bureau said on Wednesday, while service sector activity was the slowest in four months
A heavy influx of immigrants and a trend among young professionals to move out of multi-generational family homes were key drivers behind Singapore's sharp rise in rents and home prices
The trip is Musk's first to China since he made headlines in early 2020 by dancing on stage at Tesla's Shanghai gigafactory
Investor mood was lifted as Tokyo looks to spark an AI chips boom but pessimism over China’s post-Covid recovery weighed
Investors in China have been opting for safer assets as the country's post-Covid recovery struggles to gain momentum, amid weak sentiment at home and geopolitical tensions
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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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