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Chinese cars are taking over the global south

“Styling, build quality and polish” were “frankly lacklustre”. The review in Car and Driver, a respected motoring publication, of a vehicle made by BYD on display at the Detroit Motor Show in...

Elon Musk’s $97bn offer is a headache for Sam Altman’s OpenAI

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Elon Musk’s $97bn offer is a nuisance for Sam Altman’s OpenAI

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BP is underperforming and under pressure

Ever since John Browne vowed to turn BP green some 25 years ago, the British oil giant has experienced a series of embarrassing mishaps. That includes major safety lapses, such as a...

German business is being suffocated by high costs and red tape

ON A DRIVE around the vast production site of SKW Stickstoffwerke Piesteritz, Germany’s largest producer of ammonia, near Wittenberg, a spokesman for the firm points at a giant yellow valve. “Normally around...

Donald Trump loves big oil. Does big oil love him back?

DONALD TRUMP likes oil—and oilmen. He gushes about “liquid gold” with as much ferocity as Spindletop, an oil well that spat out perhaps 1m barrels over nine days in 1901 and turned...

An encounter with the reception desk

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Shein and Temu are in Donald Trump’s cross-hairs

For American consumers, online shopping has just got dearer. On February 1st Donald Trump did away with a decades-old provision, known as the de minimis waiver, that exempted goods under a certain...

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