Chattogram port on Wednesday night cleared the first transit shipment for Bhutan, which is expected to reach Burimari land port by this afternoon.

India has approved a more than $800 million plan to boost production of rare earth magnets in an effort to secure supplies and cut its dependence on imports from countries like China.

Made in China 2025 is “very insulting”, then-US President Donald Trump complained in 2018, because it “means in 2025, [the country is] going to take over, economically, the world...that’s not happening”.

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November and December typically account for a third of US retailers' annual profits

China’s stranglehold on the rare earths industry -- from natural reserves and mining through processing and innovation -- is the result of a decades-long drive, now giving Beijing crucial leverage in its trade war with the United States.

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All cargoes are scheduled for January shipment from US Gulf Coast terminals and Pacific Northwest ports, the sources said.

India’s Russian oil imports are set to hit their lowest in at least three years in December, down from multi-month highs in November, as refiners turned to alternatives to avoid breaching Western sanctions, trade and refining sources said.

Unprecedented numbers of Americans are expected to hit stores this Black Friday, but they are likely to curtail their spending as they find fewer bargains from tariff-hit retailers.

Tesla’s gaudy $1 trillion executive-compensation package for CEO Elon Musk has obscured a more pressing concern: Musk’s 2018 pay package -- still tied up in court -- could eat up years’ worth of the electric vehicle maker’s future profits.

Russian state oil and gas revenue may fall in November by around 35 percent from the corresponding month in 2024 to 520 billion roubles ($6.59 billion) due to cheaper oil and a stronger local currency, Reuters calculations showed on Monday.

Ten large Indian trade unions condemned the government’s rollout on Friday of new labour codes, the biggest such overhaul in decades, as a “deceptive fraud” against workers.

The largest US soybean sales to China in more than two years this week could be just the beginning of an accelerated buying program by Beijing after the world’s top importer shunned US supplies for months due to a trade war with Washington.

Bitcoin dropped to a seven-month low on Friday, closing in on the $80,000 level below which some analysts say much heavier losses are likely for the world’s largest cryptocurrency.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Wednesday shrugged off concerns about an AI bubble as the company surprised Wall Street with accelerating growth after several quarters of slowing sales.