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Investors began the week in positive mood, betting on imminent rate cuts in the US and in Europe ahead of the release of the latest inflation figures
PBOC's ambition to return to treasury bond buying and selling has been undermined by market distortions and may end up being a mid-term goal, analysts say
China's third state fund to boost chip production was set up on Friday with registered capital totalling 344 billion yuan ($47.5 billion)
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Chinese Premier Li Qiang spoke on Sunday, a day before a summit with their Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida
Entrepreneur plans to build a supercomputer "four times as powerful than the GPU clusters that exist today", to drive a smarter version of his AI chatbot Grok
Hong Kong trade offices in three US cities are being used "to spy on overseas activists," according to pro-democracy activists who urged US lawmakers to shut them down
US Treasury Secretary says India is refusing to 'engage' on talks on a global deal about taxes on US-based digital giants, while China has been 'absent' in push for OECD corporate tax agreement
America's biggest chip equipment maker said on Thursday it received another subpoena from the Commerce Department for the probe on whether it contravened US chip curbs
International shipping is responsible for around 3% of global man-made carbon emissions but researchers say they have an obvious answer
Investors shunned equities as the odds on a turnaround in US interest rates lengthened after the release of more strong economic data
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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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