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Nio’s second factory in the city of Hefei has around 2,000 human workers and 756 robots. CNBC | Evelyn Cheng BEIJING – U.S.-listed Chinese electric car companies are spending more on research as a ratio to sales than Tesla, according to CNBC analysis of the four automakers’ first-quarter earnings. It’s a strategy for survival in

China’s retail sales grew by 3.7% in the first half of the year from a year ago. CNBC | Evelyn Cheng SHANGHAI — China on Thursday announced its most targeted measures yet for boosting consumption, which has remained lackluster since the Covid-19 pandemic. Authorities announced they would allocate 300 billion Chinese yuan ($41.5 billion) in

In this article Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT It’s a historic week for the cryptocurrency markets with spot ether exchange-traded funds making their debut. Franklin Templeton is one of the nine spot ether ETF applicants which got approval Tuesday from the Securities and Exchange commission. The firm is behind the Franklin Ethereum ETF (EZET)

Warren Buffett speaks during the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, May 4, 2024. CNBC Berkshire Hathaway dumped more Bank of America shares this week, making it six straight trading days that Warren Buffett’s conglomerate has reduced its stake in the bank. The Omaha, Nebraska-based holding company sold another 18.9 million shares via

In this article SQ PYPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Buy now, pay later firms like Klarna and Block’s Afterpay could be about to face tougher rules in the U.K. Nikolas Kokovlis | Nurphoto | Getty Images Britain’s new Labour government will soon set out updated plans to regulate the “buy now, pay later”

Hinterhaus Productions | Stone | Getty Images Many workers will see their annual raise shrink next year as the job market continues to cool from its torrid pace in the pandemic era. The typical worker will get a 4.1% pay raise for 2025, down from 4.5% this year, according to a new poll by WTW,

A worker produces chips at a semiconductor manufacturing enterprise in Binzhou, China, on June 4, 2024. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images BEIJING — Four of the world’s largest semiconductor equipment manufacturers, including ASML, have seen the share of their China revenue more than double since late 2022, Bank of America analysts said in a

A dog looks out the window from a Tesla electric vehicle charging at a Tesla Supercharger location in Santa Monica, California, on May 15, 2024. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in extended trading: Alphabet — The tech giant slipped 1% despite a beat on both top

In this article .RUT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The money flow into small caps may not be a rotation from winning growth trades. Dave Nadig, ETF journalist and financial futurist, sees investors “just buying, buying, buying.” “What we’re seeing is a diversification trade,” he told CNBC’s “ETF Edge” this week. “We’re seeing flows

Rohit Chopra, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, during a House Financial Services Committee hearing on June 13, 2024. Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg via Getty Images The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is cracking down on so-called paycheck advance programs, which have grown popular with workers in recent years. Such programs, also known as earned wage

Real estate building under construction in Qingjiangpu District, Huai ‘an City, Jiangsu province, China, on July 15, 2024. Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images BEIJING — Top Chinese officials on Friday emphasized the country would focus on its own affairs in the face of rising trade tensions. “As long as we do our own

Craig Wright, self-declared inventor of Bitcoin, arrives at federal court in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., on Friday, June 28, 2019. Saul Martinez | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — Craig Wright, an Australian man who claimed to be the inventor of bitcoin, was on Tuesday referred to British prosecutors for committing alleged perjury. On