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Tesla hedging global supply chain bets

From India to Indonesia, Elon Musk is scouting out sites to make more Teslas for global roads. With the world mired in supply chain chaos, access to materials matters most. He’s got it right. After lobbying against India’s tight policies around manufacturing and prohibitive import duties, Musk is headed to meet Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo and visit several areas across ...

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SEC is stuff of Chinese investors’ fever dreams

  In recent days, about half a dozen investors in Hong Kong and New York who blame the US Securities and Exchange Commission for the recent selloff in China’s technology companies were being spoken to. They say they’ve spotted a pattern: provisional delisting announcements by the Washington regulator have tended to precede a drop in the broader market. On March ...

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How Russian is it?: A very crude question

  Sunday was the day when European Union regulations prohibiting dealings with Russian state energy companies come into effect. That should trigger a further decline in the volume of crude and refined products bought and traded by European companies, but it won’t bring flows to a halt. Even when, or if, the EU finally imposes sanctions on the purchase of ...

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