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Data from China showed the world’s largest economy grew at the slowest pace in nearly three decades, and the weaker-than-expected print threatened to take the fizz out of stocks. But U.S. shares seem to be holding up well as a strong start to earnings season continued with The Coca-Cola...

The full extent of the impact on Chinese exports from the ongoing U.S.-China trade war is now becoming clear. China's export growth in greenback terms fell 3.2% year-on-year in September, according to customs data released Oct. 14., after also declining 1% compared to a year earlier in August....

Nio Inc – ADR (NYSE: NIO) shares are falling Wednesday morning after a report suggested a speculated investment in a local province may not materialize. A Tuesday report in the National Business Daily suggested Nio was in talks to strike a 5-billion yuan (or $707 million) investment in the...

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Good day, Saudi Arabia has launched a logistics zone in the port city of Jeddah as part of an initiative to diversify its economy from oil. Reuters has reported that the al Khomra zone extends over 2.3 million square meters in Jeddah, home to one of the kingdom's largest ports. The kingdom hopes...

China wants further talks in October to over the details of the "Phase One" trade deal set out by President Donald Trump before getting Xi Jinping to sign it, Bloomberg reports. Last Friday, Trump said the U.S. and China reached an initial but “substantial” trade agreement...

The United States and China have reached an initial but “substantial” trade agreement dealing with intellectual property, major agricultural purchases and financial services, President Donald Trump said Friday afternoon. The partial agreement could signal a major easing, or even an...

The Los Angeles Lakers and Brooklyn Nets preseason game took place as scheduled in Shanghai, China Thursday despite fears of a cancellation.  The Lakers and Nets played a close game in front of a sold out crowd of 18,000, and it appears likely the teams will also play their rematch in China on...

Equity index futures plunged overnight after a report out of the South China Morning Post said deputy-level trade talks between the U.S. and China, which were meant to lay the groundwork for high-level talks in Washington, D.C. over the next two days, have stalled. According to the report, the...

The fallout in China from Houston Rockets General Manager's Daryl Morey’s now-deleted tweet in support of Hong Kong protesters is ongoing.  Companies Cut Ties  Tencent Holding/ADR (OTC: TCEHY), Vivo and CCTV have all suspending ties with the NBA following the...

Shares of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) traded higher Wednesday after competitor Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMD) launched its RX 5500 graphics cards, which are expected to undercut Nvidia’s $149 GTX 1650. Rising competition and a ramping trade war didn't deter some large...

Ever since Beijing envisioned its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to make foreign markets more accessible to China and vice versa, it has been expanding its networks far west, including the European mainland. The Chinese juggernaut marches on, investing heavily in ports encircling the continent,...

Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI)'s Blizzard Entertainment banned a professional esports gamer and withheld his prize money after he expressed solidarity with anti-government protesters in Hong Kong during a Taiwanese live stream of a Hearthstone tournament. The controversy follows a...

Shares of Chinese online video platform iQiyi Inc (NASDAQ: IQ) dropped another 3% on Tuesday and are now down 38.4% overall in the past year as the trade war between the U.S. and China appears to be ramping up once again. iQiyi is often called the "Netlix of China." The silver lining for...