Jul 1 2026
Lawmakers and regulators are under pressure to remove red tape constraining affordable housing construction, while maintaining Trump’s promise to bring manufacturing back to the states.
Jun 30 2026
The Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision to uphold Trump’s removal of FTC member Rebecca Slaughter wiped out any semblance of independence that corporate watchdogs were still clinging to.
Jun 29 2026
Democratic presidential hopefuls are under pressure to present the public with big ideas on how they’ll address affordability and economic inequality in the post-Trump era.
Jun 25 2026
What a difference a war makes.
Jun 24 2026
The bill’s passage comes as both parties enter a critical stretch ahead of the elections, where affordability has been a top issue for voters.
Jun 23 2026
Patrick Witt’s task is perhaps the most politically awkward in all of Washington.
Jun 22 2026
Building a new data center used to be a fairly straightforward proposition.
Jun 18 2026
Wall Street spent eight years hanging on the words of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. His successor isn’t giving investors much to work with.
Jul 2 2026
Riding a wave of booming cross-border dealmaking, China’s AI-driven drug-design firms are charging onto the global stage despite Washington’s growing scrutiny of Chinese biotech firms.
The value of out-licensing deals struck by Chinese biotech companies with top global multinational pharmaceutical companies climbed to US$75 billion in the first five months of 2026, up from zero before 2020, according to Linda Shu, head of China healthcare research at HSBC.
In total, over the five months, these…
Jul 2 2026
Assets and wealth under management in Hong Kong surged to a record high last year as global investors returned to Chinese assets, underscoring the city’s edge over Switzerland as a wealth hub.
Financial firms in Hong Kong managed HK$42.2 trillion (US$5.38 trillion) worth of assets last year, a 20 per cent increase from the previous peak of HK$35.5 trillion in 2024, according to a report released by the Securities and Futures Commission on Thursday.
Driven by the asset-management and…
Jul 2 2026
A large number of mainland Chinese companies hoping to list shares on the Hong Kong stock exchange are anxiously waiting for a nod from the mainland securities regulator, with many now at risk of having their listing applications lapse.
More than 430 companies were currently waiting in the initial public offering (IPO) pipeline, according to data from bourse operator Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX). More than 30, including mainland supermarket chain Qiandama and Eve Energy, a…
Jul 2 2026
Chinese Tesla challengers Leapmotor and Zeekr, banking on their latest battery and self-driving technologies, bucked a downward trend in domestic electric vehicle sales with record deliveries last month, ratcheting up pressure on the US carmaker amid weak consumer sentiment towards big-ticket items.
Stellantis-backed Leapmotor delivered 93,376 electric vehicles (EVs) last month, up 94.5 per cent year on year, as it rewrote its sales record for a second consecutive month.
Zeekr, a premium EV unit…
Jul 2 2026
How does an electric vehicle (EV) stand out in China’s ultra-competitive market when batteries, behaviours and functions are so similar? Through its intelligence: how well is this robot on wheels going to get to know you, adapt to your habits and moods and anticipate your needs?
Welcome to the era of the artificial-intelligence-defined vehicle (AIDV).
How did we get here? Until a few years ago, the car you drove away from the showroom was the finished product. Then came the software-defined…
Jul 2 2026
Hong Kong’s stock exchange ranked second globally by capital raised in the first half of 2026, with total proceeds from initial public offerings and secondary listings rising 84.3 per cent year on year to US$26.4 billion.
Among the 84 new listings during the period, mainland Chinese issuers accounted for 98.5 per cent of the total, with the majority concentrated in advanced technology and consumer staples.
Below are the five largest deals:
1. Victory Giant Technology, US$2.73 billion
The…
Jul 2 2026
The operator of budget online marketplaces Temu and Pinduoduo is ramping up its commitment in a state-backed development zone – dubbed a “city of the future” in official discourse – months after the e-commerce group was hit by the heaviest penalty in a record food-safety crackdown and accused by regulators of obstructing enforcement.
PDD Holdings had more than 600 employees at its unit in the Xiongan New Area by the end of June, making it the development zone’s largest privately owned internet…
Jul 2 2026
China’s anti-tax evasion campaign is sweeping across the A-share and Hong Kong stock markets, with at least 80 listed firms already having been ordered to pay back corporate income taxes and late fees to local authorities.
The number of listed companies involved in the first half of the year is likely to soon surpass the total of 89 for full-year 2025, raising concerns that Beijing’s taxation drive could be extended amid local debt black holes, which would threaten corporate earnings, cash flows…
Jul 2 2026
Saudi Arabia is exporting the most crude from inside the Persian Gulf since the the Iran war blocked the Strait of Hormuz, as producers across the region boost shipments following an interim peace deal between Washington and Tehran.
Jul 2 2026
Funds have begun to magnify swings in stocks like SK Hynix, analysts say
Jul 2 2026
US employment growth is expected to show an improvement in June with the unemployment rate holding steady at 4.3%. Michael McKee has a preview on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)
Jul 2 2026
France’s record-breaking heat has cut as much as 30% of corn production in Europe’s top farming nation and killed hundreds of thousands of poultry.
Jul 2 2026
Treasuries edged lower as traders awaited a US employment print that may give clues on the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate path after Chairman Kevin Warsh struck a dovish tone on inflation.
Jul 2 2026
China and the US are seeking to roll back tariffs on some agricultural products, as they look to preserve a broader trade truce that was struck last year.
Jul 2 2026
“The Pulse With Francine Lacqua” is all about conversations with high profile guests in the beating heart of global business, economics, finance and politics. Based in London, we go wherever the story is, bringing you exclusive interviews and market-moving scoops.
Today’s guests: Paul Donovan, UBS Global Wealth Management Chief Economist, Vlad Tenev, Robinhood CEO, Jim DeMare, Bank of America Co-President, George Arison, Grindr CEO (Source: Bloomberg)
Jul 2 2026
Brazilian railway operator VLI SA is starting a new export route for soybean meal, addressing key bottlenecks as the country attempts to boost shipments of the animal feed ingredient.
Jul 2 2026
The company is considering a cloud computing business to help generate revenue from AI
Jul 2 2026
Skyroot Aerospace Pvt announced that it was gearing up for its maiden flight of Vikram-1 — India’s first privately designed and developed orbital rocket — between July 12 and August 4, in what would be a critical milestone for the country’s first space unicorn after facing several delays.
Jul 2 2026
Signs of slower hiring, attrition and companies deciding not to replace exiting workers.
Jul 2 2026
OpenAI has begun preliminary discussions about giving the US government a 5% stake in the ChatGPT-developer. The Financial Times reported that executives proposed the move as part of a broader arrangement under which Washington would hold 5% of each of the leading American AI developers. Matthew Bloxham of Bloomberg Intelligence has more. (Source: Bloomberg)
Jul 2 2026
Investors in SpaceX have been largely flying blind since the company’s record-breaking IPO last month, with few financial projections to help determine what the stock is actually worth.
Jul 2 2026
SAP SE said it will cut back hiring and travel to save costs as Europe’s largest software company devotes more resources to developing artificial intelligence technologies and fending off new competitors.
Jul 2 2026
Google lost its long-running fight against a €4.1 billion ($4.7 billion) European Union antitrust fine after the bloc’s top judges said regulators were right to punish the US giant for abusing Android’s market power.
Jul 2 2026
SoftBank Group Corp. and its telecom unit will start renting AI computing resources to US companies next fiscal year, using a growing pipeline of data centers to compete with the likes of CoreWeave Inc. and Nebius Group NV.