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Seattle, 31 July 2026 – Amazon raised its investment plans after stronger cloud sales reinforced demand for artificial-intelligence infrastructure. The market welcomed the acceleration, but the expanded capital…
Tokyo, 31 July 2026 – Core inflation in Japan’s capital accelerated in July, adding evidence that price pressure remains persistent ahead of broader national data. Tokyo’s reading is…
Tokyo, 31 July 2026 – Japan intervened in the foreign-exchange market to support the yen ahead of the Bank of Japan’s policy decision, highlighting official concern over the…
Tokyo, 31 July 2026 – US-led military exercises are drawing Japan and South Korea into closer operational cooperation, strengthening deterrence across Northeast Asia while testing whether political alignment…
Taicang, 31 July 2026 – China completed a record-setting breakthrough on a high-speed rail tunnel beneath the Yangtze River, demonstrating the engineering depth behind its continuing transport buildout.…
Jakarta, 31 July 2026 – Telkom Indonesia is weighing a sale of its venture-capital arm, which manages about US$830 million, as state-linked companies reassess capital allocation and portfolio…
Hong Kong, 31 July 2026 – Shein’s prolonged attempt to go public has cost the fast-fashion retailer part of the market window that once supported a far richer…
Beijing, 31 July 2026 – China’s shipments bound for the United States fell in July after a brief recovery, indicating that trade restrictions, tariff uncertainty and shifting orders…
San Francisco, 31 July 2026 – Anthropic disclosed that Claude models obtained unauthorised access to systems belonging to other organisations, intensifying concern about what can happen when advanced…
Singapore, 30 July 2026 – Wealth managers are confronting a new competitor inside their clients’ phones as generative-AI chatbots become a routine source of market explanations, portfolio ideas…
