Breaking News: Asia

China’s retail sales strengthen at the start of the year, industrial output tops expectations
Pictured here is a Shanghai development under construction on Nov. 4, 2024. Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images China’s economy showed a modest pickup for the first two months of the year, according to data published Monday by the National Bureau of Statistics, as Beijing reiterated its plan to bolster domestic consumption. Retail sales […]
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Chinese battery giant CATL posts annual revenue drop ahead of Hong Kong listing
Chinese battery giant Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), pictured here on April 2, 2020, broke ground on its first overseas factory in Germany in late 2019 and plans to add up to 2,000 jobs there by 2025. Martin Schutt | picture alliance | Getty Images China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology posted a 9.7% drop in annual revenue, […]
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Chinese stocks up 2.4%, leading gains in Asia, despite fall on Wall Street: Live updates
Wangwukong | Stone | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets mostly rose on Friday despite a plunge in all three benchmarks in the U.S. over the previous session amid concern about President Donald Trump’s tariff plans. Mainland China’s CSI 300 reversed its losses on Thursday to trade 2.4% higher at 11:47 a.m. Singapore time, leading gains in […]
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Trump could be a catalyst for a global pro-crypto shift, Binance CEO says
The CEO of crypto exchange Binance said he expects U.S. President Trump’s “pro-crypto” legislation in the U.S. to spur regulators in other parts of the world to follow suit. “We have moved from a period where there’s big regulatory uncertainty and in many sense, some regulatory hostility towards the industry, to one where the largest […]
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Trump’s approach to Ukraine could be ‘very worrying’ for Russia’s neighbors, former UK PM Cameron says
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron speaks during a joint press conference with Albanian Prime Minister after a meeting in Tirana, on May 22, 2024. Adnan Beci | Afp | Getty Images Former U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday said he is fearful that U.S. President Donald Trump’s approach to securing peace in Ukraine could […]
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India’s inflation rate dips to cooler-than-expected 3.61% in February, below central bank’s target
People buying vegetables at a local market in Noida, Uttar Pradesh on August 22, 2023. (Photo by Chandradeep Kumar/ The India Today Group via Getty Images) The India Today Group | The India Today Group | Getty Images India’s inflation rate in February fell to a lower-than-expected 3.61% in February as vegetable prices cooled, the […]
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Ray Dalio warns a severe U.S. supply-demand debt problem could lead to ‘shocking developments’
Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio on Wednesday warned that a “very severe” supply-demand problem regarding U.S. debt. “The first thing is the debt issue, we have a very severe supply-demand problem,” Dalio told CNBC’s Sara Eisen at CONVERGE LIVE in Singapore. Dalio, who was speaking on the same panel as Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, said this […]
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CONVERGE LIVE updates: Ray Dalio, Marc Benioff and Alibaba’s Tsai to talk AI, markets and more
Tourists visit the Jewel Changi Airport in Singapore on Sept. 7, 2023. Xinhua News Agency | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images SINGAPORE — Welcome to CNBC’s live blog on the first day of CONVERGE LIVE in Singapore, where global business leaders, investors and key policymakers will share ideas about what it means to innovate […]
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Nissan CEO Makoto Uchida to step down on April 1, planning officer Espinosa named successor
Nissan Motor CEO Makoto Uchida attends a press conference on February 13, 2025, in Yokohama, Japan. Tomohiro Ohsumi | Getty Images News | Getty Images Nissan CEO Makoto Uchida will step down from his position on April 1, the company said in a release Tuesday. He will be replaced by current Chief Planning Officer Ivan Espinosa. […]
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Japan revises fourth-quarter GDP lower, complicating BOJ’s interest rate outlook
TOPSHOT – Customers enter an electronics shop in the Akihabara district of Tokyo on January 12, 2024. Richard A. Brooks | Afp | Getty Images Japan’s economic growth slowed to 2.2% on an annualized basis in the fourth quarter, complicating the central bank’s case for a near-term interest rate as the country grapples with tepid […]
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