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...The CSI 300 index of Shanghai- and Shenzhen-listed stocks is down nearly 40 per cent from a peak in February 2021....
...Shenzhen in January set up the first Middle East-China co-operation fund with Saudi Arabia’s PIF, with a value of $1bn....
.../FT Film (FT) Samsung SDI to start mass-producing solid-state batteries in 2027 (Nikkei Asia) #techAsia is co-ordinated by Nikkei Asia’s Katherine Creel in Tokyo, with assistance from the FT tech desk...
...The editorial team can be reached at techasia@nex.nikkei.co.jp....
...app stores (Nikkei Asia) #techAsia is co-ordinated by Nikkei Asia’s Katherine Creel in Tokyo, with assistance from the FT tech desk in London....
...Just to the north in Shenzhen, Nikkei Asia visited the Huaqiangbei market, a global electronics sourcing centre....
...make-up, a surefire indicator that the beauty industry wasn’t giving them enough thought....
...And with limited suitable targets in luxury fashion or leather goods (as reflected by Kering’s own failed talks with Swiss group Richemont in recent years), beauty has emerged as a crucial growth area....
...Nikhil Bhandari, co-head of Goldman’s Asia-Pacific natural resources and clean tech research team, says China’s grip on raw materials is “more than it appears”....
...From Europe’s side, any co-ordinated response is limited by a familiar issue: the EU is set up much more to regulate competition between member states within the single market than between the 27-state bloc...
...GTCR will make a more than $5bn equity commitment to finance its majority stake, most of which will come from its two most recent funds and the remainder from co-investments from a broad group of limited...
...With forested alpine ranges and a largely untouched coastline, it contains areas of stark natural beauty....
...But this year, instead of chocolate truffles, I’m lusting after Dior’s decadent limited-edition version....
...Its most successful movie in 1991, Beauty and the Beast, wasn’t even the year’s most popular family film, beaten at cinemas by Home Alone and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze....
...money to cash- hungry limited partners....
...But director and co-writer Christopher McQuarrie is clearly keen to create real-world ballast for the pure delirium ahead....
...Albatross, previously a farming tech group, has already delivered about 50 drones for combat and is at the centre of a Tehran-supported effort to expand Russia’s dronemaking capacity....
...His film Restrepo, the 2010 documentary he co-directed with writer Sebastian Junger, had made him famous....
...So there’s really a plethora, every single challenge that we currently face that’s either limited by data or limited by an understanding of the world around us, a quantum mechanical world around us....
...Johnson positions for new market regime It is no secret that passive funds have been the big winners from an epic bull market running from 2009 to last year....
...Miles JohnsonSo it’s sort of like a secret currency exchange service but for major criminals....
...Tenner explains this isn’t how she writes instinctively — the style at THIS, she says, is “very millennial tech bro”....
...Covey, a scented sketch of “Santa Monica’s tech-savvy socialites” features a Mojito-like blend of “lime, fig leaves, muddled mint”....
...I can only observe that, given the scale of the tech threat posed by hostile countries, computers are very much in evidence....
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