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Nikkei Rebounds as Yen Slides, China Stocks U-Turn on Rate Bets
Nikkei Rebounds as Yen Slides, China Stocks U-Turn on Rate Bets

Investors were playing the waiting game on Wednesday with the odds shortening on a sizeable US interest rate cut later in the day

Japan Nears China Chip Curbs Deal With ‘Bad Cop, Very Bad Cop’ US
Japan Nears China Chip Curbs Deal With ‘Bad Cop, Very Bad Cop’ US

Tokyo is between a rock and hard place on the issue of chip tech exports, facing the risk of retaliation from both China and the US

Oil And Gas Sector Way Off Net Zero Track: S&P Global
Oil And Gas Sector Way Off Net Zero Track: S&P Global

Data from the 30 biggest oil and gas firms in Europe and America studied by an S&P Global unit shows they have a collective emissions trajectory of a 5C temperature rise by 2100

Musk ‘Eroding Tesla EV Sales’, But do Bigger Things Lie Ahead?
Hang Seng Gains on Property Bets, Strong Yen Weighs on Nikkei
Asian Bonds See Best Month of Net Purchases in Five Years
Oil Nations Blocking COP29 Efforts on Fossil Fuel Phaseout – FT
BIS Warns Central Banks Not to Squander Interest Rate Buffers
Huge Storms Battering China, Causing Chaos in Southeast Asia
TikTok Set For Day in Court to Fight Potential US Ban

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ASML in the Centre of the Chip War

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