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Developing Asia retained its position as the world’s largest developing-region destination for foreign direct investment in 2025, attracting $644 billion in capital as investment patterns within the region continued to shift. While
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China’s rapidly expanding gig economy is absorbing millions of workers affected by a weak job market, but the shift from traditional employment to flexible work is creating growing challenges for wages, social
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The Japanese yen weakened further on Tuesday as traders continued pushing the currency lower amid the absence of fresh intervention signals from Japanese authorities, though the possibility of a surprise yen-buying move
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France’s richest man, Bernard Arnault, has been ordered to pay €22.5 million in back taxes following a years-long legal dispute with French tax authorities over a restructuring involving a Belgian holding company
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Warnings over the economic and financial consequences of the artificial intelligence boom are intensifying, with leading economists and central bankers cautioning that rapid investment, rising leverage, and technological disruption could create systemic
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Cuba has officially established a new government institution tasked with leading the transformation of the country’s state enterprise system, creating a central body responsible for improving the operation, organization and development of
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Asia’s manufacturing sector gained momentum in June as a global artificial intelligence investment boom drove demand for technology-related goods, helping offset some of the economic pressure caused by the Iran war, according
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JPMorgan Chase is reshaping its approach to national security financing with a sweeping investment initiative that will see the country’s largest bank deploy billions of dollars of its own capital into companies
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