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...Aboard Air Force One on Friday, Donald Trump vowed to ban TikTok, the hugely popular video-sharing app owned by China’s ByteDance....
...Emerson has a strong automation division, but also has other more traditional business lines including thermostats, refrigeration and air-conditioning....
...Observers suggest he might have more success with less contentious targets such as Ireland’s Eaton Corporation or Switzerland’s ABB. Honeywell declined to comment....
...Last week, however, leading bellwether industrial groups including Siemens, 3M and Eaton were among those expressing caution on Chinese sales, joining others such as Volvo and ABB that warned of cooling...
...Swiss-Swedish industrial group ABB has 5,500 suppliers linked via data networks and transport connections to assembly factories spread globally....
...Libya stopped oil shipments to Switzerland, harassed Swiss businessmen and arrested two employees of ABB, the engineering group. That was more than a year ago....
...Charles Burrows of Goldman said capital spending by utilities was growing strongly and this should help ABB’s pricing and earnings over coming months....
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