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The unprecedented oversupply of commodity chips has lingered since last year, and added to woes of an industry that was battling a Covid-induced shortage until the first half of 2022
China has repeatedly denied sending military equipment to Russia since Moscow's all-out invasion of Ukraine in February 2022
The Bank of Japan surprised investors with a small but significant shift away from years of ultra-loose monetary policy
Frugality is becoming endemic in China as financial insecurity forces the country's white collar workforce to spend less and save more
Three scientists say they were able to produce a superconductor, dubbed LK-99, via a modified form of lead apatite, that 'conducts power at any temperature below 127C without pressure chambers', but experts are sceptical
Together, the unusual coalition of competitors, aims to roll out 30,000 chargers in North America, which would be significantly higher than Tesla's fast-chargers
The deal is win for Xpeng, one of the smaller players in China's EV sector, that is less than a decade old
Investors were buoyed by signs the Fed’s tightening cycle may be coming to an end but China’s economic difficulties continued to weigh
Obscure firms have shipped large cargoes of Russian oil this year, with crude often changing hands at sea and carried in old Liberian-flagged vessels, en-route to China and India
There has been a huge jump in the assets of emerging market mutual funds and exchange traded funds that exclude China, as US and European investors turn wary of exposure to the Asian giant
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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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