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China’s industrial heartland of Guangdong is being forced to turn back to costlier natural gas to meet rising electricity demand, after the El Niño weather pattern curtailed hydropower and wind output.

China’s national team may need to accelerate stock purchases after the benchmark notched a record losing streak, though state-backed buying alone may not be enough to put the market on a sustained recovery, according to Bloomberg Intelligence.

Trump and Putin both seem to think that removing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy would set the stage for a Kremlin-friendly peace deal, but most Ukrainians see the war as a fight for national survival that does not depend on any one man, writes Peter Dickinson. The post Ukrainians are not fi

Japan and other major iron ore buyers risk becoming price takers as China’s state-backed purchasing company seeks greater influence over how the steelmaking ingredient is priced, according to consultant Wood Mackenzie Ltd.

Bloomberg's Mark Cranfield argues robust AI infrastructure demand will likely continue to support Asian chip makers despite near-term volatility sparked by big tech earnings. (Source: Bloomberg)

While signaling restraint, the militias are carving room to consolidate their position and shape the terms of Iraq’s next security order. The post Iraq’s militias are adjusting for a new era, not going away appeared first on Atlantic Council.

Federal Reserve Board announces termination of enforcement actions with Gardner Bancshares, Inc. and Small Business Bank

The idea of Ukrainian drones silencing Kremlin bots clearly caught the world’s imagination, but the real story behind Ukraine’s recent drone strikes on Russia’s mega data centers is one of strategic vulnerability, writes Leonid Baratz. The post Ukrainian drone strikes highlight the vulnerability of

On October 16, Elisabeth Braw was interviewed on Bloomberg Television to discuss Trump weighing the use of the ‘mother of all bombs’ in future Iran air strikes. The post Braw on Bloomberg Television on Trump not ruling out ‘mother of all bombs’ on Iran appeared first on Atlantic Council.

In this essay, Niall Ferguson, one of the world’s foremost experts on imperial history, teams up the former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, and the researcher Lisa Klaassen to make the provocative argument that AI is an inherently “imperial technology”—and to reveal what the fate of past empires might