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Germany accelerates return to normality
Germany accelerates return to normality

Germany is planning an almost complete return to normality in May, with schools and shops reopening and the return of top-flight Bundesliga football matches, Chancellor...

Investors hope reopenings will heal economies
Investors hope reopenings will heal economies

(ATF) Hong Kong: Investors appear more optimistic that the reopening of economies will take the sting off the bad...

China’s yuan in sluggish recovery
China’s yuan in sluggish recovery

(ATF) Friday’s drop in the offshore deliverable yuan – or CNH – from 7.0731 to 7.1349 was dramatic....

ECB stands firm after shock German ruling on bond-buying
Asia cautiously optimistic as economies reopen
Company Report: Geely, CCB, Huaxia
After CNH crash, it’s EUR’s turn in the barrel
China services sector battered
Market sentiment revived by economic reopenings
Culture industry suffers lockdown blow

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ASML in the Centre of the Chip War

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