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Sales of trucks that run on new energy are reported to have soared by 175% in the first half of this year
Shares of solar panel-makers have soared this week since Beijing said it would end severe discounting that has troubled them for months; polysilicon has also soared.
The price of copper shot up on Wednesday after Trump's threat of a 50% tariff, while pharma stocks fell on his talk of a 200% levy on drug imports. Deals with India and the EU expected soon.
A rapid increase in global warming and unprecedented climate change threatens the availability of water to chipmakers' copper suppliers, PwC says
Tokyo and Seoul said on Tuesday they will try to negotiate with the US to soften the impact of higher tariffs, but many other Asian nations face greater challenges
Officials pledged on Thursday to help the photovoltaic industry, as top solar manufacturers have suffered losses amid huge overcapacity and a long price war
LONG READ: After copying foreign cars, China’s carmakers scrutinized their engineering and devised faster paths to product launches. Now their production leads the world.
Jakarta will sign a pact worth $34 billion with business partners next week to boost purchases from the United States in a bid to avoid 32% tariffs on its exports
The US has lifted bans on chip design software developers and ethane exports to China in a sign that the trade war with Beijing has eased
Beijing plans to assess the deal, which will see the US put a 20% tariff on most Vietnamese exports – but a 40% levy on goods trans-shipped from third countries, such as China
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Transport InsightsAnglo-American Puts World’s Biggest Hydrogen Truck to WorkMining giant Anglo-American has unveiled a prototype of what it says is the world’s largest hydrogen-powered mining truck
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Market InsightsKazakhstan Unrest Poses Risks for World EconomyHundreds of people have died and thousands have been detained in Kazakhstan during the worst violence seen in the Central Asian nation since it became independent in the early 1990s. The unrest in Kazakhstan poses risks for energy markets, and even cryptocurrencies.
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