BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s new home prices rose in March at the fastest pace in 21 months, official data showed on Saturday, suggesting the market is out of the doldrums amid a flurry of support[...]
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April 16, 2023
At China’s largest trade fair, exporters worry about world economy
By Ellen Zhang and David Kirton GUANGZHOU (Reuters) -Chinese exporters exhibiting their products at the country’s largest trade fair said the weak global economy was hurting their businesses, wi[...]
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Marketmind: Are we calling it a banking crisis, shock … or blip?
By Jamie McGeever (Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in Asian markets from Jamie McGeever. Top-tier Chinese economic data including first-quarter GDP grabs the Asian spotlight this week, as inv[...]
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France’s Ynsect to refocus bug business after capital increase
By Sybille de La Hamaide PARIS (Reuters) – French insect-based ingredients maker Ynsect will refocus its strategy on high-margin markets like pet food, shut a production plant and cut jobs after[...]
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Big copper deals to take centerstage in Santiago as demand heats up
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Global copper producers are converging in Chile this week for their largest gathering since 2019, with talks expected to center on the industry’s growing M&A wave[...]
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Moderna/Merck cancer vaccine plus Keytruda delays skin cancer return
By Julie Steenhuysen and Michael Erman (Reuters) – An experimental mRNA cancer vaccine developed by Moderna Inc and Merck & Co cut the risk of death or recurrence of the most deadly skin can[...]
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Amazon services AWS and Alexa back up after brief outage
(Reuters) -Amazon.com Inc said its cloud computing division Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its voice assistant service Alexa were back online after a brief outage on Sunday. Alexa was down for thousand[...]
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China’s Xpeng aims to cut costs with new vehicle manufacturing platform
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s electric vehicle (EV) maker Xpeng unveiled on Sunday a new platform it developed in-house for making vehicles, which it said will reduce the development and ma[...]
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Panasonic says it may build EV battery plant in Oklahoma
TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s Panasonic Holdings, a battery supplier to electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc, said on Sunday that it is considering building a battery plant in Oklahoma, its third in the[...]
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