Year: 2025
China urges halt to auto industry’s bruising price wars
People work on the production line of auto parts at a carmaker in Qingdao in east China’s Shandong province Saturday, March 1, 2025. Yu Fangping | Feature China | Future Publishing | Getty Images China called on Saturday for its automotive industry to halt brutal price wars, as a threat to the sector’s health and […]
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Pentagon chief says ready to ‘fight and win’ against China, urges Asian allies to boost defense spending
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (C) gestures beside Malaysia’s Defence Minister Mohamed Khaled Nordin (R) and other defence officials from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) during a multilateral meeting ahead of the Shangri-La Dialogue Summit in Singapore on May 30, 2025. Mohd Rasfan | Afp | Getty Images SINGAPORE — Pentagon chief […]
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China’s manufacturing activity contracts amid trade tensions
A worker works in a workshop of a textile products manufacturing enterprise in Qingzhou Economic Development Zone in Qingzhou City, Shandong Province, China, on May 10, 2025. Costfoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images China’s manufacturing activity contracted for a second month in May, an official survey showed on Saturday, raising expectations for more stimulus to […]
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Trump hails Nippon Steel as ‘great partner’ as deal awaits approval
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday lauded an “agreement” between Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel at a political rally but stopped short of approving the companies’ diplomatically sensitive merger. On a stage near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, decorated with signs celebrating “American steel,” Trump declared the American steel company would remain American, while extolling its prospective new […]
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Stablecoins stole the show at Bitcoin 2025 — here’s what the major players said
Bitcoin 2025 brought together thousands of investors, builders, and believers for a showcase of crypto’s next chapter. MacKenzie Sigalos LAS VEGAS — At the world’s largest bitcoin conference this week on the Vegas Strip, the most consequential story wasn’t about bitcoin. Stablecoins, the dollar-pegged digital tokens now driving a full-scale financial and political shift in […]
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$TRUMP and other meme coins won’t be protected by SEC, Commissioner Hester Peirce says
Hester Peirce, commissioner of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), speaks during the DC Blockchain Summit in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, May 24, 2022. Valerie Plesch | Bloomberg | Getty Images LAS VEGAS — Now that the SEC is out of the business of regulating meme coins, investors shouldn’t expect any guidance on $TRUMP, […]
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PBS sues Trump over executive order to cut funding
The Public Broadcasting Service on Friday sued President Donald Trump to block his attempt to cut off its federal funding, and accused the president of retaliating against the public broadcaster over “perceived political slights in news coverage.” Trump’s executive order targeting PBS’ funding “will upend public television,” lawyers for the broadcaster behind “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” […]
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Anthropic hits $3 billion in annualized revenue on business demand for AI
Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images Artificial intelligence developer Anthropic is making about $3 billion in annualized revenue, according to two sources familiar with the matter, in an early validation of generative AI use in the business world. The milestone, which projects the company’s current sales over the course of a year, is a significant jump […]
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Tariffs didn’t bite the stock market in May, but June could be a different story
The strong performance for stocks in May could be a sign that Wall Street has decided to shrug off President Donald Trump’s tariff plans, but there are some reasons to think the impact on trade will be harder to avoid in the months ahead. For one, global trade does not appear to have found a […]
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Trump will hold a rally at U.S. Steel as investors seek clarity on Nippon deal. Here’s what we know
President Donald Trump will hold a rally Friday at a U.S. Steel plant near Pittsburgh, a week after signaling that he had cleared a controversial merger with Japan’s Nippon Steel. Trump is scheduled to deliver remarks at 5 p.m. ET at U.S. Steel’s Irvin Works in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, according to the White House. Investors […]
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