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A rare wave of U.S.-China camaraderie broke out online in recent days as “refugees” from the popular short video platform TikTok poured onto a Chinese social media platform to protest a now-delayed ban on the service

sanctions on Russian oil, OPEC+ production curbs, and increased heating demand due to extremely cold winter in Western countries have aided the surge in prices. Last week, the US imposed fresh sanctions against Russia’s energy industry, including blocks on two major Russian oil producers and insurance companies, along with sanctions on an unprecedented number of oil-carrying vessels. This move has threatened to crimp global oil markets supplies, which were already tightened due to OPEC+ production cuts.

Jamie Dimon has been rather bang-on with his certain predictions around the US economy and the stock market for the better part of 2024, and his concerns around Wall Street have occasionally been seen to be true. The JPMorgan Chase CEO has been relaying his concerns about an incoming US inflation based on various market factors, and he has reiterated the same in the latest cautionary statement.

lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles (EVs) affordable and run longer, researchers at the National Institute of Technology Rourkela (NIT Rourkela) have developed a new class of cathode materials using magnesium, an alternative to cobalt-based designs. The team said the innovation addresses challenges associated with the high cost, scarcity and environmental concerns of cobalt which is a key component in conventional batteries. The rechargeable batteries power devices such as smartphones, laptops and EVs, and predominantly use cobalt-based cathodes.

Maruti Suzuki India aims to be the leading producer of electric vehicles in the country over the next one year, the company's Managing Director and CEO Hisashi Takeuchi said on Friday. Speaking on the sidelines of the Bharat Mobility Global Expo 2025 here, he noted that the production of the company's first battery vehicle eVITARA will commence in «spring» at its Gujarat-based manufacturing plant.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. WASHINGTON—Days before his inauguration, President-elect Donald Trump made clear in a two-hour private meeting with Senate Republicans that he wouldn’t wait on them to start implementing his biggest policy priorities: overhauling the immigration system and dramatically reshaping the country’s relationship with its economic allies and adversaries. With the experience of governing and a better knowledge of the levers of power, Trump has drafted expansive plans for tariffs and border restrictions, the centerpieces of his 2024 campaign.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. China’s population continued to decline last year—though births edged up for the first time in eight years—falling for a third straight year as deaths outpaced births. China had seen birth numbers plummet since 2017, the year after it ended the one-child policy, despite Beijing’s encouragement of couples to have three children.

foreign interference inquiry on Thursday describe widespread threats and harassment of Canadian Sikhs by the government of India, much of it coordinated by diplomatic missions.Witnesses told the Hogue Commission behind closed doors India had threatened their families, spied on temples and meddled in Canada’s elections, according to the newly unsealed documents.India “interferes in Canada because there is no reason not to,” one witness told the commission, adding that “the Canadian government has been largely impotent in the face of interference.”“There have been no consequences.”The documents summarize hundreds of written submissions received from Canadians during public consultations and meetings with more than 100 members of diaspora communities.They included Chinese, Iranian and Ukrainian participants, but the statements of Sikh Canadians are particularly noteworthy, providing a community-level view of the alleged tactics of the Indian government.Indian foreign interference has seen “an acceleration” since Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power in 2014, with high-ranking officials vowing that “dissidents in other countries would be eliminated,” one witness said.Canada has labeled India the second most serious foreign interference threat to the country, behind only China.

«It is just that there is so much uncertainty it is not really worth us thinking about how much or where, but I do think that he has to surprise the markets and he will have to be quite firm early on because it is useful as a tool of negotiating to really be aggressive early and then be able to use that to negotiate with other countries in terms of policies that he wants them to abide by,» says Marko Papic, Chief Strategist, BCA Research. Let us talk about Donald Trump. He takes charge next week. What do you expect from him? You think he is going to follow up on his pledges about tariffs, tax cuts, and immigration. What is your own sense and do you think it was just perhaps rhetoric? Marko Papic: Macro investing is pretty difficult because not only do you have to get the direction of markets correctly, but also what is the most important issue that the market will focus on? The market cannot focus on everything at the same time and I think that too many investors are trying to combine all of Trump's policies and figure out their inflation, market, and economic impact. I think that the market is going to continue to focus as it has been on fiscal policy, that means how much will President Trump and his cabinet expand the budget deficit and thus far the market has assumed that the US will continue to spend at a pretty significant clip.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy plan to whip the American state into shape. On November 14th their newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced that it wants to hire “super-high-IQ small-government revolutionaries" to work on cost-cutting.

If given the opportunity, 43 per cent of young Canadians would vote to be American, with a few guarantees.

U.S. president-elect Donald Trump announced his plans to make Hollywood “stronger than ever before” on Thursday and named stars Mel Gibson, Sylvester Stallone and Jon Voight “special ambassadors.”

Cameron Brandt of EPFR Global says there is a strong inclination to return to emerging markets. However, the current appeal of the United States, at least in the short term, is so compelling that it is challenging for investors to overlook it in favor of emerging market narratives. The aspects of these narratives that hold credibility have recently experienced significant price increases. This interest is particularly focused on the major emerging markets in Asia, including India, China, Korea, and Taiwan, where substantial capital has been directed. What is the sense that you are getting? Is the dollar going to peak out anytime soon? Cameron Brandt: My sense is certainly that it has further to go and as much as there is a consistent theme for mutual fund and ETF flows, it is towards US mandated equity and bond funds.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Distractions are a constant in our age, while productivity is that gleaming arch on the horizon that seems farther away the closer we get. And every few months, leaders of India Inc chime in to advocate longer work hours in service of this hallowed goal.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The wreckage left behind after Russian military strikes in Toretsk, Ukraine, Dec. 19., 2024.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: Outgoing US ambassador to India Eric Garcetti said North American and West Asian oil can make up for any shortfall in Russian crude supplies to India following the latest US sanctions on that country, pointing out that India and the US “agree that borders should be sacrosanct". On fears of a looming tariff war, he said with President-elect Donald Trump “it's an invitation to negotiate." Edited excerpts from an interview: I would say its trust and ambition, because it's clear that we have friendship.

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Thursday allowed banks to open rupee accounts at their overseas branches for people residing outside the country in the latest regulatory move aimed at helping achieve the rupee’s internationalisation.

Trade has dominated the conversation in Canada since Donald Trump won the U.S. election and threatened to slap a 25 per cent tariff on all imported goods.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau‘s decision to step down in March will mark the end of a tumultuous era in the Canadian oilpatch that put the country’s energy sector on a collision course with a growing climate movement, the rise of green investing and organized political opposition to pipelines.