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Asian shares are trading mixed, as investors found bargains despite worries about President Donald Trump’s tariffs

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. For those anxious about Chinese aggression towards the self-ruled island of Taiwan, there was a welcome signal at the end of Donald Trump’s third week back in the White House. After talks with Ishiba Shigeru, the Japanese prime minister, on February 7th the two leaders said America and Japan “opposed any attempts to unilaterally change the status quo by force or coercion" in relation to Taiwan, which China claims as its own.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. It doesn’t take an economic genius to pinpoint the allure of Chinese e-commerce giants. The rapid growth of platforms like Shein, PDD Holdings’ Temu and Alibaba Group’s AliExpress was never about the quality of their products, ethical supply chains, customer service, or even US consumerism and excess.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Let’s take stock of India’s external environment. Our pile of foreign exchange has dropped by nearly $80 billion or about 12% in five months.

Donald Trump said on Sunday he will introduce 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports into the United States, on top of existing metals duties, in another major escalation of his trade policy overhaul.

Paris, where challenging diplomatic talks are expected while tech titans fight for dominance in the fast-moving technology industry.

DeepSeek's success is a victory for China's education system, proof that it equals that of the United States or has even surpassed it.

Rajnath Singh said on Monday at the opening of the country's biggest air show, where its military ambitions will be in focus.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. By wielding the threat of imposing across-the-board tariffs against Canada, Mexico and China for no justifiable reason, US President Donald Trump demonstrated that he is a major risk for America and its trade partners. But how other countries respond to Trump’s reckless policies will ultimately determine how much damage the global economy will sustain.

«In those days, when Sunil Gavaskar used to get out, the hopes on rest of the batsmen was very-very low. Today, barring India, most other countries in emerging market like Russia, China, Brazil, South Africa, have not delivered return to investors. Over 20-year period, emerging markets underperformed developed markets,» says Nilesh Shah, MD, Kotak AMC. Exactly a month ago, this market had a lot of event risk, budget, Trump and tariffs, then there was RBI, MPC, and then Delhi elections. Thankfully for us, we have come on the right side of all the individual events. So, if events were making markets nervous and if the events are behind us and we have been on the right side of the event, then do you think it is a matter of time markets will stabilise? Nilesh Shah: So, in our opinion, while there are certain events which are behind us, there are few things which will keep market on the volatile side. One, we are in a world which is increasingly becoming protectionist from globalised, with Trump administration launching newer and newer initiatives for America first, there will be concerns on geopolitical side.

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Tata Steel and JSW Steel among others may remain in focus on Monday after US President Donald Trump announced his plans to impose new 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminium imports. This may impact companies like Tata Steel, JSW Steel, Jindal Steel and Power, SAIL, Jindal Stainless and NMDC.

Trump also said he will announce reciprocal tariffs on Tuesday or Wednesday, applying them to all countries and matching the tariff rates levied by each country. The move adds to jitters over a global trade war, with China's retaliatory duties on U.S. goods due to take effect on Monday.

Oil prices ticked higher on Monday even as investors weighed U.S. President Donald Trump's latest tariff threat, this time on all steel and aluminium imports, which could dampen global economic growth and energy demand. Brent crude futures climbed 40 cents, or 0.5%, to $75.06 a barrel by 0133 GMT while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude was at $71.38 a barrel, up 38 cents, or 0.5%. The market posted its third consecutive weekly decline last week on concerns about a global trade war.

Emmanuel Macron warned that US tariffs on Europe would hike inflation for Americans, as he vowed in an interview aired Sunday to go head-to-head with Donald Trump over financial threats.

light combat aircraft powered by a GE engine in the upcoming fiscal year after a delay of nearly 12 months, a top government official said on Sunday.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi:Wind power projects may need to use a fixed amount of local components to secure government assistance, two people aware of the plans said, on the lines of a similar mandate for solar power projects. The government has begun talks with industry stakeholders to introduce a domestic content requirement (DCR), one of the two people cited above said on the condition of anonymity.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: India is doubling down on its quality crusade, putting a range of domestic and imported goods under close scrutiny at a time protectionist walls are going up across the world.

President Donald Trump has paused the imposition of tariffs on small-value packages arriving from China

artificial intelligence development in France, a source close to the deal told AFP on Saturday.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. ANTARCTICA IS THE only continent unbloodied by war. For over six decades peace on the frozen land mass has been kept by the Antarctic Treaty, an agreement signed in 1959 at the height of the cold war that established it as a demilitarised scientific preserve.