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Tencent, Baidu and Alibaba all slashed the number of deals they made in China’s tech sector last year with the big three agreeing 40% fewer contracts
Despite the SEC’s watershed approval for digital funds, some traders say they will still be avoiding what they called a "speculative, volatile asset”
New lending in 2023 hit a record $3.2 trillion – roughly equivalent to the gross domestic product of the UK
South Korea does not recognise cryptocurrencies as financial assets and has laws that effectively prohibit ETFs linked to virtual assets
Oil tankers diverted from the Red Sea on Friday after Houthi militants in Yemen said they would keep targeting vessels in the region in response to US and allies' attacks on their military bases
Japan’s benchmark continued its 2024 charge reaching another 34-year peak while China’s woes weighed elsewhere
Chinese shipments to Russia jumped 47% in 2023 from a year earlier, and soared 64% compared with 2021, before the Russia-Ukraine war, China's customs data showed
Consumer prices fell for a third month in December while factory-gate prices extended a more-than-year-long decline, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed
Tumbling confidence sparked by the deepening property crisis and weakening consumption have seen a REITs index drop nearly 50% from an early 2022 peak
Our position on cryptocurrencies "remains unchanged" irrespective of who does what, India's central bank chief said in response to the US regulator's green light for crypto ETFs
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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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