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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission seeks "disgorgement of ill-gotten gains", civil monetary penalties and an injunction against further violations of the Commodity Exchange Act
The CPI rose 5.4% in May from a year before, according to Statistics Korea data, faster than the 4.8% rise the previous month and above the 5.1% tipped in a Reuters poll
China’s markets were lifted by easing Covid curbs and new stimulus measures but global recession worries cast a shadow over Hong Kong and Tokyo
Musk previously played down the risks of coronavirus, saying "the coronavirus panic is dumb" and children were “essentially immune”. He later contracted Covid-19 twice.
As well as chairing Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, the bourse's parent company, Cha also sits on the Hong Kong government’s executive council
Local governments will need to issue another $210bn in special bonds this month if they want to meet the cabinet's half-year goal
WM Motor's IPO document does not reveal the size of the deal but a listing would move WM founder Freeman Shen closer to his dream of mass-producing affordable EVs
The carmaker will procure electricity from renewable sources and use carbon-neutral vehicles at its factories, among other measures, it said in a statement
Markets slid lower in China and India on Wednesday, while stocks in Japan were boosted by a jump in the auto sector, and there were gains in Australia helped by GDP data that topped forecasts
If the bid by Elon Musk to buy Twitter goes through, the Tesla chief executive will have potentially a stake of between 6% and 8% in the short video app
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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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