Bloomberg China’s Tianqi Lithium Corp. cleared a major hurdle in its bid to buy a $4.1 billion stake in SQM, the world’s second-largest producer of the mineral used in electric-vehicle batteries. Chile’s constitutional court has declared inadmissible a suit questioning whether an agreement between Tianqi and Chile’s antitrust agency FNE went far enough to protect SQM’s trade secrets against its ...

Bloomberg An electric-vehicle revolution is gaining ground in India, and it has nothing to do with cars. The South Asian country is home to about 1.5 million battery-powered, three-wheeled rickshaws — a fleet bigger than the total number of electric passenger cars sold in China since 2011. But while the world’s largest auto market dangled significant subsidies to encourage purchases ...

Bloomberg Profit growth in Chinese industrial enterprises slowed for a fifth month amid the ongoing US-China trade spat and a weakening domestic economy. Industrial profits rose 4.1 percent in September from a year earlier, versus a 9.2 percent increase in August. Total profits for the month were 545.5 billion yuan ($78.6 billion), the National Bureau of Statistics said. The slowdown ...