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25.04.26 - 14:51
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Global Inflation Scare: Chinese Exporters Hike Prices As Iran War Triggers Ethane Shortage, Plastics Crunch (ZeroHedge)
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Global Inflation Scare: Chinese Exporters Hike Prices As Iran War Triggers Ethane Shortage, Plastics Crunch
Chinese exporters are finally passing on the pain - right as they're experiencing a major shortage of a key industrial material. After years of cutting prices amid overcapacity and cutthroat competition, manufacturers are now raising prices on everything from swimsuits and ski suits to medical syringes and air conditioners. The culprit: the Iran war's energy shock, which has sent oil-linked input costs skyrocketing and is now rippling straight through to global store shelves.
Customs data compiled by Trade Data Monitor and analyzed by Bloomberg reveal sharp year-on-year price jumps in March across more than a dozen categories of household goods - the first sustained reversal in a disinflationary trend that had helped keep a lid on inflation from the U.S. to Europe for nearly three years.
"I held off raising prices for as long as I could in March, but in the end I had no choice,&qu...
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25.04.26 - 12:54
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Zum Erfolg verdonnert: Chinas Autobauer suchen ihr Heil im Export (N-TV)
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Chinas E-Auto-Hersteller drängen mit Macht auf die Weltmärkte - nicht nur aus Stärke, sondern auch aus Not. Ein jahrelanger Preiskrieg und massive Überkapazitäten haben den heimischen Markt ausgereizt. Für westliche Hersteller wie Volkswagen wird der Wettbewerb härter....
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25.04.26 - 08:24
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Druck auf Teheran steigt: USA bestrafen chinesische Raffinerie (N-TV)
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Washington will die Geldströme Richtung Iran trockenlegen und nimmt dafür gezielt ein großes chinesisches Unternehmen ins Visier. Es handelt sich demnach um einen der größten Abnehmer iranischer Rohstoffe. Die Firma soll zudem Teil eines verdeckten Transportnetzwerks auf See sein....
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25.04.26 - 06:48
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Xpeng sets August goal to overtake Tesla′s self-driving tech in China (SCMP)
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Xpeng, the Chinese electric vehicle start-up often cast as a key rival to Tesla, has set an ambitious goal to surpass the US carmaker's self-driving capabilities in China by August, according to co-founder, chairman and CEO He Xiaopeng.
The target highlights an intensifying technology race in the world's largest car market, where manufacturers are increasingly leaning on advanced software to drive growth as government subsidies are phased out.
Although Tesla's full version of its Full......
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25.04.26 - 05:06
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Just what the doctor ordered: how AI could help China bridge the medical resources gap (SCMP)
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Li Bin, a doctor at the First Hospital of Lanzhou University, was among the wave of Chinese consumers who snapped up Apple Mac Mini computers during the country's frenzied adoption of the OpenClaw artificial intelligence agent earlier this year.
The young surgeon from Lanzhou, the capital of northwestern China's Gansu province, bought one to run the open-source program, using it to develop an app to extract and organise information from doctor-patient conversations and lab report photos into......
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