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...HSBC estimates that the cost of manufacturing e-scooters is still up to three times higher than a fuel-burning equivalent, while the retail price of an Ola two-wheeler is about Rs120,000 ($1,500) compared...
...says Dylan Taylor, founder of Voyager Space Holdings. “It will be mostly on data and predictive analytics. Hardware and launch are just means to an end.”...
...The insurance units are required by state regulators to invest the vast majority of their holdings in investment-grade rated debt, to safeguard policyholders....
...“Employment, consumer spending, manufacturing production and inflation have partly reversed the softening trends that we had seen in the data just a month ago,” he said, adding that “some of this reversal...
...Other manufacturing companies imported slab, semi-finished flat chunks of steel, as well as rebar, rods used to reinforce concrete in construction projects....
...In the first episode of this season’s six-part series, the FT’s Global China Editor James Kynge tracks China’s dramatic transformation from the manufacturing workshop of the world to the next global superpower...
...(Bloomberg) Holding grudges Longtime Ant Group investors await a massive payday come the company’s dually-listed initial public offering....
...Chinese companies Haier, Jiangnan Huaqian, Keer Group and Zhejiang Geely Holding Group have set up factories in South Carolina....
...The private sector initiative is intended to seek opportunities for co-operation between the two countries in technology, healthcare, energy and manufacturing....
...Multinationals are selling manufacturing rights to products with declining sales to local competitors, with about 20 such deals made in the past few years, according to Citibank....
...That was boosted by its $1.1bn deal last September to acquire the smartphone manufacturing operations of HTC along with some 2,000 staff, a move described by the Taiwanese smartphone maker’s co-founder as...
...Google broke into smartphone manufacturing in 2011 with its $12.5bn purchase of Motorola Mobility....
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...But the listed holding company, such as Berkshire, or Alphabet — a cross between Warren Buffett’s creation and an incubator — may represent an important part of the future....
...With the Brent crude oil price holding above $68 — up 0.5 per cent at $68.16 a barrel, a 2.5-year high — oil majors are in demand....
...The economic calendar has already broken its resolutions for the year (all times London). 07.00: Turkey consumer price index08.15: Switzerland retail sales08.30: Switzerland manufacturing purchasing managers...
...On the data front, the ISM manufacturing data will be out later this morning at 10am. Ahead of that release, yield on the 10-year is largely unchanged at 2.3265 per cent....
...PMI08.55: Germany manufacturing PMI09:30: UK manufacturing PMI10.00: eurozone gross domestic product11.00: Ireland unemployment...
...Activist battles 3: Autodesk THE BUSINESS A California-based software designer that supplies the engineering, construction and manufacturing industries....
...Corporate earnings reports out today include Kerry Logistics, Sunac China, China Merchants Port Holdings, Macquarie Atlas Roads Group, Fullshare Holdings, Melco International, Park24, and SMI Holdings....
...Brussels plans to call for more rigorous screening of foreign takeovers of European companies as it seeks to address mounting concerns about a surge of Chinese investment into the bloc’s high-tech manufacturing...
...The economic calendar for Monday is no slouch, either (all times Hong Kong): 07.50: Japan industrial production (preliminary)09.00: China manufacturing and non-manufacturing purchasing managers’ indices09.30...
...The deal ascribes a valuation of $837m to Tata Technologies, which provides outsourced engineering and research services to manufacturing companies....
...Asian markets were relatively subdued on Friday ahead of highly-anticipated US jobs data later today and as investors continued to digest yesterday’s batch of global manufacturing data....
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