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  • Manchin threatens to sue US Treasury over EV tax credit rules

    WASHINGTON, March 29 (Reuters) – Senate Energy Committee Chairman Joe Manchin said on Wednesday he could go to court after the US Treasury Department released guidelines on battery procurement for electric vehicle tax credits later this week. “If it goes off the rails” and goes against the intent of climate legislation passed in August, “I […]

  • Shares gain because bank support encourages investors

    MSCI All-World index up 0.3%, dollar falls UBS rehires Ermotti as head of the merged unit Alibaba up 13%, other Chinese tech stocks up Oil rises, gold falls LONDON, March 29 (Reuters) – Global stocks rose on Wednesday as investors took heart from greater levels of stability in the banking sector, but the sense of […]

  • Adidas withdraws its opposition to Black Lives Matter’s three-stripe design

    March 29 (Reuters) – Sportswear manufacturer Adidas AG (ADSGn.DE) turned down Wednesday 48 hours after the request to the US Trademark Office to reject a Black Lives Matter application for a trademark with three parallel stripes. “Adidas will withdraw its opposition to the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation’s trademark application as soon as possible,” […]

  • Alibaba’s break-up plan raises hopes that China’s crackdown on technology will come to an end

    March 29 (Reuters) – Shares in Alibaba Group (9988.HK) and other leading Chinese tech companies rose on Wednesday as investors hailed an unprecedented revamp of the Jack Ma-founded company as the beginning of the end of Beijing’s crackdown on the sector. Alibaba said Tuesday it planned to split into six units and explore fundraising or […]

  • Alibaba splits empire into six units, aims for IPOs

    March 28 (Reuters) – Alibaba Group (9988.HK) plans to split its business into six main units, from e-commerce to cloud in the largest restructuring in its 24-year history, five of which it says are fundraising whether to explore IPOs. The six units are Cloud Intelligence Group, Taobao Tmall Commerce Group, Local Services Group, Cainiao Smart […]

  • US regulator sues top crypto exchange Binance CEO for ‘intentional evasion’

    CFTC accuses Binance of ‘deliberate evasion’ of federal law Binance’s compliance was ‘ineffective’ under CEO – CFTC CFTC cites practices first reported by Reuters last year March 27 (Reuters) – The world’s largest crypto exchange Binance and its CEO and founder Changpeng Zhao were charged on Monday by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) […]

  • Nestle to investigate banking relationships after Credit Suisse collapse

    ZURICH, March 28 (Reuters) – Nestle (NESN.S) will examine its banking relationships following the planned acquisition of Credit Suisse (CSGN.S) by UBS (UBSG.S), the food group’s CEO Mark Schneider said on Tuesday. The world’s largest food group was a customer of Credit Suisse, Schneider told broadcaster TeleZueri in an interview to be shown Tuesday evening, […]

  • Stocks rise, US Treasury yields rise as bank fears ease

    HONG KONG, March 28 (Reuters) – Global stocks and US bond yields rose on Tuesday, as a US regulator-backed deal by First Citizens BancShares to buy the failed Silicon Valley Bank allayed wider concerns about problems in the sector. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific stocks outside Japan (.MIAPJ0000PUS) was up 0.3% by early morning in […]

  • US and Japan sign trade deal on battery minerals for electric vehicles

    WASHINGTON, March 28 (Reuters) – The United States and Japan on Tuesday announced a trade deal on battery minerals for electric vehicles that is essential to strengthening their battery supply chains and giving Japanese automakers wider access to a new $7,500 US EV tax credit. The swiftly negotiated agreement prohibits the two countries from imposing […]

  • China’s industrial earnings slump is deepening amid weak demand and high costs

    China Jan-Feb Industrial Profit -22.9% y/y vs -4.0% for 2022 Recovery far from solid, demand and cost issues persist BEIJING, March 27 (Reuters) – The slump in earnings for Chinese industrial companies deepened in the first two months of 2023, weighed down by weak demand and stubbornly high costs as the world’s second-largest economy struggled […]