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Investors are optimistic US inflation will show signs of cooling this week but opinion is split over China’s post-Covid recovery prospects
Investor optimism over China’s post-Covid bounceback was dampened by the reality of the gloomy global outlook and a hawkish Fed
Tesla has chosen to lower prices and take some additional downtime at the Shanghai factory to bring supply and demand back in balance
Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway also traded $80.7 million worth of Hong-Kong listed shares in the Chinese automaker in November
Investors were encouraged by China’s curbs rollback and signs inflation is cooling in the US which could see a slowdown in rate hikes
The Nikkei and Shanghai indexes rallied on optimism over an economic fightback in China while the Hang Seng was hit by profit-taking
The battery-maker aims to produce LFP batteries that can be made at lower cost, but deliver less range than comparable nickel-cobalt electric vehicle batteries
Rival Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD and the budget-EV joint venture of General Motors in China both outsold the US carmaker
Investors are looking beyond China’s current Covid woes and betting on a post-pandemic economic recovery
The Afeela EV demonstrates how automakers are increasingly focussing on the in-car cockpit experience, which presents greater monetisation opportunities
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