Year: 2025
China’s Lunar New Year travel expected to ‘maintain strong momentum’, says analyst
ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via Email Yang Lei, China Equity Research Analyst at CGI, explains why there’s been consistent growth in Chinese travel, despite citizens being generally more cautious with their spending. Source
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China PMI surprises as factory activity contracts in January; December industrial profits jump
Workers produce garments for export to overseas markets at Sihong Guoshun Garment Co., Ltd. in Weiying town, Sihong County, Suqian city, East China’s Jiangsu province, on January 23, 2025.. Costfoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images China’s factory activity in January unexpectedly contracted, reversing the expansionary momentum in the past three months, partly due to a […]
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CNBC Daily Open: Chasing the bull market? Maybe pay attention to gold
An employee removes a silver bar for sale from the shelf at a Costco in Bayonne, New Jersey, U.S., on Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. Clark Hodgin | Bloomberg | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need […]
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Qatar says agreement reached to release Israeli hostage, allow Palestinians to return to north Gaza
People walk towards their homes through the destroyed streets of Gaza City on January 19, 2025. T Abood Abusalama | Afp | Getty Images Mediator Qatar announced early Monday that an agreement has been reached to release an Israeli civilian hostage and allow Palestinians to return to northern Gaza, easing the first major crisis of […]
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Stock futures are lower ahead of key earnings week: Live updates
Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange on Jan. 21, 2025. NYSE Stock futures traded lower on Sunday night as investors look ahead to a major earnings week. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 85 points, or 0.2%. S&P futures shed 0.5%, while Nasdaq 100 futures slid 245 points, or 1.1%. […]
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Trump’s firing of independent watchdog officials draws criticism
U.S. President Donald Trump’s late-night firing of inspectors general at multiple government agencies was criticized as illegal on Saturday by Democrats and others and drew concern from at least one fellow Republican. In what critics called a late-night purge, Trump fired 17 independent watchdogs on Friday, a person with knowledge of the matter told Reuters, […]
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Coffee, crude oil and cut flowers: Here are the Colombian goods you may be paying more for under Trump’s tariffs
US President Donald Trump speaks to the media after signing executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on Jan. 23, 2025. Roberto Schmidt | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump’s newly announced tariffs on goods from Colombia could drive up the price of some items Americans buy every […]
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Chinese AI applications now have bigger aims — they’re looking beyond chatbots
The World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on July 6, 2023. Aly Song | Reuters BEIJING — A slew of releases last week demonstrate how Chinese companies such as DeepSeek and ByteDance have moved quickly with artificial intelligence models that compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Now, many companies in China are increasingly building on that foundation […]
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Perplexity AI revises Tiktok merger proposal that could give the U.S. government a 50% stake
Photo illustration of TikTok app logo on a smartphone screen displayed with the American flag. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Perplexity AI on Sunday revised the merger proposal it had submitted to TikTok parent ByteDance. The proposal, which would create a new entity combining Perplexity and TikTok U.S., would now also allow for the […]
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Universal Music Group and Spotify strike new agreement
Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images Universal Music Group (UMG), the world’s biggest music label, and Swedish streaming giant Spotify have reached a new multi-year agreement for recorded music and music publishing, they said on Sunday. The publishing agreement establishes a direct license between Spotify and UMG across Spotify’s current product portfolio in the […]
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