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...Meanwhile on the stage, Stephen Sondheim’s Pacific Overtures and Kimber Lee’s satirical untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play exemplify a more critical or contested perspective on postwar Asian narratives....
...We think of companies like Toyota, of course, in the auto sector, you think of SoftBank in tech and Sony obviously in entertainment....
...Solid-state batteries could reduce certain vulnerabilities such as the current reliance on graphite, which Beijing placed export restrictions on last week....
...According to company filings, active listings on the platform have increased by around 7 per cent since the company’s S-1 filing ahead of the flotation....
...We saw this in second-quarter earnings, the fact that publicly listed companies, which are tilted to manufacturer and export, saw margins fall . . . both the Auto and electronics sectors saw year over [profit...
...Lee Seok-hee, SK Hynix chief executive, told reporters on Monday that his company would respond to the US concerns “wisely while co-operating with interested parties”....
...The ARJ21’s engines come from Connecticut-based Pratt & Whitney....
...Dave Lee...
...“The history of markets is that they always overshoot both ways,” said Lee Spelman, head of US equities for JPMorgan Asset Management....
...Here’s how the auto industry is preparing for the economic uncertainty ahead. (FT)...
...“If export restrictions are realised and expanded, we cannot say that its impact on exports and the economy is small,” Mr Lee said on July 18. “It is not desirable that it expands and worsens....
...Annual exports from North Korea grew from just $2.3bn in 2001 to a record $7.6bn in 2014, according to the Bank of Korea....
...South Korea’s most popular export just might be a seven-member boy band called BTS....
...and auto parts,” GM said....
...The South Korean government has offered Won500bn ($470m) to GM to keep the US auto group in the country, as it hits its Friday deadline for deciding whether to wind down its Korean operations....
...“The announcement has further heightened concern over the risk of a trade war which could deliver a negative shock to global growth,” said Lee Hardman, currency analyst at MUFG....
...Oil prices edged up after retreating on Tuesday amid concerns Turkey could cut crude exports from Kurdistan following an independence vote in the Iraqi region....
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...The IMF’s recent downward revision of its global GDP forecast is further confirmation of the CU%’s predictive power....
...Overall, the S&P 500 closed up 0.33 per cent at 2,119.12....
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...as low oil prices offset falling exports....
...“The international brands are already responding in the way the auto industry always does — by cutting price,” he says....
...During 2013 and 2014, Japan’s exports grew in 20 out of 24 months; Korea’s, only 13 of 24. Over the weekend, Japan said that December exports were up 13 per cent on the year before....
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