Share indexes across the region retreated as confidence in Big Tech’s fortunes waned off the back of some tame earnings posts

Big Tech anxieties, China’s wayward economy, Donald’s Trump’s possible return and currency shifts all weighed on sentiment

LG Energy Solution said they were discussing possible tie-ups with three Chinese suppliers, with battery plants in either Morocco, Finland or Indonesia

The automaker is worried a Trump win in November could bring disruption to its new $7.6bn Georgia Metaplant

Demand concerns for the world’s No2 economy cast a shadow across the region’s trading floors, trumping a U-turn in technology shares

Investors across the region took Biden’s election withdrawal in their stride but the impact of last week’s Microsoft-related outage was still being felt

Nornickel is trying to move significant production away from Russia to major consumer China, to avoid sanctions against Moscow over its war with Ukraine

Scores of companies have born the brunt of cheap imports from China and a slide in industrial competitiveness due to factors such as rising energy prices and an ageing workforce

Six-month inquiry by a Chinese industry group will assess if Chinese firms lost business in Europe due to invesigations carried out by Brussels

Sales of passenger vehicles totalled 1.78 million in June, down 6.9% from last year, but exports were up 28% and sales of plug-in hybrids rose by 67%

Orban arrives for talks with Xi Jinping. He is believed to be negotiating a potential peace deal to end the war in Ukraine, as well as holding trade deals

MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan rose 0.9% to its highest since April 2022, while the Nikkei was close to its peak, the Topix hit all-time highs, and the Hang Seng rose for a fourth straight day