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**The US-Iran truce has sharply improved UK growth forecasts, with Bloomberg Economics raising its 2026 GDP projection to 1.2% from 0.8%.** The deal, which ended Iran's closure of ...
**Google Ventures has led a $30 million seed round for Nebex, a space fintech startup founded by former Axiom Space CEO Tejpaul Bhatia.** The company plans to build an online platf...
**After 39 years, Slovakia’s Mochovce nuclear reactor has begun fuel loading and is set to start commercial power generation by the end of summer.** The Soviet-designed VVER-440 un...
**UOB is pursuing a disciplined, governance-first approach to AI in banking, prioritizing security and accountability over hype.** The bank’s Innovation Group head, Lee Zhu Kuang, ...
**HKEX is aggressively expanding into the proprietary index business, launching its first ETF on the HKEX Tech 100 Index this Friday, as Hong Kong’s traditional benchmarks lag regi...
**Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) is pushing its most significant listing reform since 2018, slashing market cap requirements for weighted voting rights (WVR) firms to HK$2...
**South Korean convenience store giant CU is testing China with a cautious online-first strategy, selling just 11 products on Alibaba’s Tmall platform.** This approach, in partners...
**Major Chinese banks are suspending individual trading on the Shanghai Gold Exchange as gold prices plunge nearly 30% from record highs, signaling an aggressive tightening of reta...
**Chinese carmakers accelerated their European market share in May, with combined sales for the top five groups rising 65% year-on-year and capturing 10.6% of the market.** Geely G...
**China’s EV makers are shifting from destructive price wars to a technology arms race, betting that superior features at stable prices will attract buyers and restore profitabilit...
**Chinese heavy-duty truck makers are rapidly electrifying and expanding overseas, with export sales surging 33% year-on-year in Q1 2026 to over 100,000 units.** This growth is dri...
**China now produces a new unicorn every five days, double last year's pace, with 381 companies on the 2026 Hurun Global Unicorn Index.** The world’s second-largest economy added 3...