“The recent zig-zags in Venezuela policy have left investors, and frankly everyone else, with their heads spinning,” said Geoff Ramsey, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington. “The question is whether the administration can articulate these two approaches into a single, more cohesive ‘good cop, bad cop’ routine.”
For example, she said, the environmental licensing process for a hydroelectric plant takes an average of 10 years, and the country has 27,000 regulations. In 2022, she said, more than 5,000 projects — including highways, railways, waterways, transmission lines, mineral pipelines, gas pipelines and fiber-optic cables — were stalled over licensing issues.
The slow ad recovery has been weighing on Baidu’s shares the most, said Kai Wang, a Morningstar Inc. analyst. “Once advertising comes back, Baidu’s valuation should come up pretty quickly, as that’s likely holding the AI business back,” he said. “It’s one of the few players in China that can actually build out the data […]
The liquefied natural gas and logistics company asked to be reconsidered for the 800-megawatt contract to help shore up the US commonwealth’s shaky electric grid, according to a letter it sent to the Puerto Rico governor’s office. New Fortress argued that it would be the cheapest power supplier and could provide clean fuel and a […]
“This is not normal,” said Michelle Solomon, a manager of electricity policy at energy and climate think tank Energy Innovation Policy and Technology LLC. “When the administration can just stop work on projects that have been fully permitted, gone through the right procedures and had billions of dollars invested, for any industry that’s alarming.”
CATL supplies batteries to top-tier customers such as Tesla Inc., Volkswagen AG, Ford Motor Co. and Mercedes-Benz Group AG. It has a market share of roughly 38% in electric-car batteries, comfortably ahead of its closest challenger, top EV maker BYD Co.’s 17%, according to SNE Research.
He accelerated his purchases from early January, for his own investment and with managed funds, with Zhongcai holdings reaching a peak near 40,000 lots, or 200,000 tons of the metal, in early April, before Trump began his escalation of tariffs, exchange data shows. He later moved some of the brokerage’s positions to CME Group’s Comex, to capture US turbulence, […]
There’s going to be a new entrant that potentially could knock Apple off, you know, the top of the technology mountain, right? And in order for Apple to avoid that, they’re gonna have to beat out those new entrants time and time again. And AI is the big thing right now, and they have so […]
Since the RBA’s March 31-April 1 meeting, data showed hotter-than-expected inflation, a surprise acceleration in wages and a tight job market. That suggests the RBA has “no reason to give any additional encouragement to the market’s rate cut hopes,” said Sean Keane, chief Asia Pacific strategist for JB Drax Honore, referring to pricing for two […]
Japan releases a slew of major indicators from across the economy, beginning midweek with exports and imports, machine orders, and PMI — all of which will provide a steer on the global effects of Trump’s trade war. Friday brings national consumer prices, which are set to remain elevated at 3.5%, and department store sales, which […]