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...Sixteen red states including Texas, Louisiana and Florida also last month sued the federal government over its decision to freeze approvals for new export terminals for liquefied natural gas along the US...
...Donald Trump, who signed an executive order in 2020 to ban TikTok, has now opposed it after meeting with mega donor Jeff Yass, who may have as much as 75 per cent of his net worth tied up in ByteDance....
...In today’s newsletter: ‘Arb-ageddon’ at VMware Special conflict, special interest The next big luxury IPO A Broadcom mega-deal blindsides Wall Street Broadcom chief executive Hock Tan may earn the title...
...The bigger question is whether this strategy — when seen in the context of the negative Brexit impacts noted above and the mega-subsidies being dished out by the US and EU — is going to deliver the kind...
...By the time the 21st century arrived, costs were too high to export ore profitably to China, forcing the company to vertically integrate....
...Trump’s supporters had lined up around the high school hours before he arrived, chanting “USA” and “Let’s go Brandon” — a slogan deriding Biden....
...profile Chip equipment exports to China tumble as US pushes decoupling...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on May 24, 2023. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Today, Korean culture is so widespread in the west that K-pop idols are invited to the White House to speak about anti-Asian hate crimes and Asian representation, as mega pop band BTS did in June....
...But this is really one that is part of a mega trend.”...
...bean producer Brazil has suffered the worst drought in almost a century, leading to the first supply shortfall in the coffee market in four years, as anti-government protests in Colombia caused a delay in exports...
...Mr Hirano added that Tokyo would rebuff any US efforts to impose quotas or other restrictions on its automotive exports....
...“It often turns into local battles, and national chains and mega-players like Walmart cannot leverage their bargaining power,” said Taketo Yamate, a former retail analyst at UBS who now works at consulting...
...Gannett, publisher of USA Today, is in advanced talks to combine with GateHouse Media in a deal that would merge the two largest owners of newspapers in the US by circulation, said two people briefed about...
...While the ravages of the European debt crisis forced some to sell up and move on, recent events in Italy Inc show that Italians keeping it in the family are still providing the most dramatic corporate sagas...
...Campari will be hard hit by COVID-19 due to high On Trade exposure, especially in core markets of Italy and the USA....
...Some joke that Lexus stands for “luxury exports to the US”. North Americans bought two-thirds of Lexus’s cars, where it has succeeded as a luxury brand....
...Over the past three months, coal overtook iron ore to become the country’s most valuable export, something last seen in 2012....
...US refined fuel exports to Latin America have also risen rapidly as growing fuel-hungry populations strain the continent’s often dilapidated domestic refineries....
...The price of LNG has been very strong in Asia, even though there has been new supply coming on to the market from the Australian mega-projects Gorgon and Wheatstone....
...Sprint has held exclusive talks with T-Mobile USA, which is controlled by Deutsche Telekom, as well as with Comcast and Charter Communications, the top two cable operators in the US, about possible deals...
...A grain trader at a US hedge fund lamented that “fundamentals”, such as corn yields or exports, no longer had as much impact on prices....
...USA, jobs in the USA — it’s all fine....
...“As the cold hits, storage withdrawals should pick up further, aided by higher y/y export levels and lower production,” said Nicholas Potter at Barlcays....
...capital for the sales launch of Africa’s newest country’s first batch of coffee, she said: “The farmers are very excited and they are happy” about the prospect of cups of coffee being the first non-oil export...
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