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...In mainland China, the CSI 300 index of major Shanghai and Shenzhen companies rose 0.3 per cent....
...The Shanghai Composite and Shenzhen Composite bucked the trend as each fell 0.2 per cent In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 was up 0.4 per cent as financials climbed by the same amount....
...That has brought a hydrant of money and clear industrial policy. This state-led strategy is also closely aligned with national champions Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent — all private companies....
...It has shut down one of its main engineering sites, making about 40 staff redundant, and put the V-Charge on ice....
...The average price of launches by United Launch Alliance, jointly owned by Boeing and Lockheed, is about $164m....
...Golden Brick Silk Road, a Chinese investment fund, is working with Shenzhen-listed Beijing Kunlun Tech Co and New York-listed Qihoo 360 Technology....
...The FT’s Science Editor Clive Cookson reports the world already has 12m service robots, compared with 1.5m industrial robots, with the number expected to rise to 31m by 2018....
...It is not immediately obvious that there will be closer economic ties with the United States, although Trump may well aim for that....
...States under a Trump Presidency....
...On Tuesday Daimler revealed its new Denza electric vehicle, made in China in co-operation with Shenzhen-based BYD, while BMW will begin selling imported i3 and i8 cars in China next month....
...With a focus on industrial design, branding and digital, it has worked on a range of services for tech start-ups such as Jawbone, maker of Jambox speakers and Up fitness wristbands....
...Tencent, the gaming and social media conglomerate based in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, said on Friday it will purchase nearly a fifth of 58.com for $736m....
...Brian Langenberg, an industrial sector analyst, says the deal makes GE “significantly bigger and stronger”....
..., oil gain Asian stocks rose for a seventh day and oil advanced before a monthly U.S. jobs report and data this weekend on Chinese industrial production....
...In the second week of Apple v Samsung at a court in San Jose, their patent dispute took a more serious turn, after the titillating revelations of the first week included Apple designs for a 7in iPad, one...
...Bank of America Merrill Lynch downgraded the firm’s shares to underperform and wrote in a note on Wednesday: “Our assumption for BYD’s ‘V’-shaped recovery has not occurred” Delays in new product launches...
...SKF of Sweden, the biggest maker of industrial bearings, places a similar emphasis on adaptability....
...There have already been some clumsy attempts, such as Bright Food’s recent approach to United Biscuits....
...The announcement comes amid the furore over problems at Toyota, which is facing Congressional hearings in the United States over its recall of 8.5m vehicles since November....
...with the industrials sector, at 58....
...“The government will be more relaxed about it if Tengzhong can get the money itself,” says Yao Hongguang, auto analyst from United Securities in Shenzhen....
...The 27-month lease on the couple’s Honda Odyssey minivan was expiring and they browsed widely last month, weighing the merits of sport utility vehicles ranging from the Honda CR-V small crossover to Porsche...
...ICICI’s managing director, K V Kamath, called the rumours “baseless and malicious”....
...Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States By Andrew Coe Oxford University Press, £15.99 The story of America’s love-hate relationship with Chinese food, from the first American...
...Shanghai and Shenzhen, which dropped 7.3 per cent, dragged down Hong Kong....
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