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How BYD’s five-minute charging stacks up against the competition

How BYD’s five-minute charging stacks up against the co...

The Chinese firm is now staking claim to a system it says will make it as quick ...

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Intel's new CEO plots overhaul of manufacturing and AI operations

Intel's new CEO plots overhaul of manufacturing and AI ...

Intel reported an annual loss of $19 billion in 2024, its first since 1986.

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Hong Kong hedge fund Polymer joins rush to debut pure Japan funds, sources say

Hong Kong hedge fund Polymer joins rush to debut pure J...

The move will see the heavyweight joining a wave of fund launches in Japan.

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Pimco takes profit on Japan bond trade as interest rates rise

Pimco takes profit on Japan bond trade as interest rate...

The American investment management firm has turned "overall neutral” on Japanese...

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Alaskan officials to seek investors in Japan as Trump touts LNG

Alaskan officials to seek investors in Japan as Trump t...

Japanese energy firms have yet to commit, with cost being a focal point.

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U.S. government seeks to postpone oral arguments in Nippon Steel suit

U.S. government seeks to postpone oral arguments in Nip...

The move is apparently aimed at giving the current administration time for talks...

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Gazprom's grandeur fades as Europe abandons Russian gas

Gazprom's grandeur fades as Europe abandons Russian gas

Gazprom is arguably the Russian business hardest hit by the international sancti...

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Geely billionaire goes on a cost-cutting spree to catch rivals

Geely billionaire goes on a cost-cutting spree to catch...

The shift was laid out in a document called the Taizhou Declaration, which calle...

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Bank of Japan unlikely to raise rates this week as trade war intensifies

Bank of Japan unlikely to raise rates this week as trad...

The central bank voted to raise its short-term policy rate to 0.5% from 0.25% in...

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Banks boom and shoppers scrimp a year after Japan’s rate pivot

Banks boom and shoppers scrimp a year after Japan’s rat...

Higher borrowing costs are also fueling a political battle over how the governme...

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Japan to invite small businesses to declare ¥10 billion sales targets

Japan to invite small businesses to declare ¥10 billion...

The country has about 4,500 companies with annual sales of ¥10 billion or more, ...

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'Impossible': U.S. breweries buffeted by Trump tariffs

'Impossible': U.S. breweries buffeted by Trump tariffs

From Canadian malted barley to aluminum beer cans, Trump's tariffs have hit mult...

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Trump's bitcoin reserve to be a 'digital Fort Knox'

Trump's bitcoin reserve to be a 'digital Fort Knox'

The reserve is funded by about 200,000 bitcoins — worth nearly $17 billion — tha...

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AI pioneer wants Europe to forge its own nimbler way forward

AI pioneer wants Europe to forge its own nimbler way fo...

Sepp Hochreiter, an early pioneer of the technology, is interested in teaching A...

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Japan’s unions win largest pay hike in more than three decades

Japan’s unions win largest pay hike in more than three ...

Some 760 affiliated unions under the trade union federation Rengo have so far se...

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Watchdog finds Dentsu and other Japanese firms reluctant to accept price hikes

Watchdog finds Dentsu and other Japanese firms reluctan...

Dentsu, Nippon Express and Kohnan Shoji have kept their transaction prices with ...