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Investors responded to more positive signals from the US on interest rates with hopes high of cuts in the pipeline
Talks on Monday are part of a US move to better understand China's outlook and head off a potential three-way arms race between Washington, Beijing and Moscow, US officials say
Minister tells Micron CEO Beijing would be happy for the company to expand its operations in China, months after saying the memory chipmaker failed a security review; the news comes amid a thaw in Sino-US ties
The three, along with 26 other other signatories signed the "Bletchley Declaration" at the AI Safety Summit in Britain on Wednesday
A month-end scramble for cash and a flood of government bond sales triggered an overnight record surge in rate for pledged repo on October 31
Chinese officials got access to TikTok's most secret internal documents, according to a new report, but the popular app's biggest headache is now in Southeast Asia
Positive signals from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell that borrowing rates may have peaked fuelled a regional rally
The US Treasury has imposed sanctions on Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise, the ruling junta's main source of foreign revenue, in a bid to stop the military's deadly attacks on civilians
A former central bank official has warned the Bank of Japan might phase out stimulus by next month if pressure continues to mount on its currency and prices
Andrew Ng, one of the founders of Google Brain and a Stanford University professor, warns that Big Tech companies are keen to trigger heavy regulation to reduce competition in the AI sector
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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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