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China’s EV Champion BYD Will Take on the World in 2024
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China’s EV Champion BYD Will Take on the World in 2024

China’s electric-vehicle maker BYD will be on top of the world this year, with overseas markets its main battleground.At home, it already surpassed Volkswagen as the most popular car brand in China last year. Globally, it will likely overtake Tesla as the bestselling pure EV maker in 2024.Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Japanese Investors Return to Overseas Real Estate With Lessons Learned From the 1990s
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Japanese Investors Return to Overseas Real Estate With Lessons Learned From the 1990s

TOKYO—Big Japanese investors stumbled disastrously into the U.S. commercial real-estate market in the late 1980s, when they bought high-profile properties like New York’s Rockefeller Center not long before the market fell hard.Now some Japanese institutional investors and real-estate companies are back—but this time it isn’t about flaunting trophy purchases. It is about diversifying portfolios for the long term and getting good bargains while the market is slumping.Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Volkswagen’s Elusive Quest to Make an EV for the Masses
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Volkswagen’s Elusive Quest to Make an EV for the Masses

Updated Dec. 31, 2023 12:19 am ETBERLIN—Almost a decade ago, Volkswagen set out on an expensive quest to dominate the new world of software-defined cars and build the electric “people’s car.” It is still trying. The German automaker has invested billions of euros, retooled entire plants and created new software and battery companies to assist in making the transition. However, VW has yet to produce an EV that has matched the success of its historic gas-powered models such as the Beetle and the Golf in its core markets. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
China’s Yuan Is Quietly Gaining Ground
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China’s Yuan Is Quietly Gaining Ground

Chinese assets have had a terrible year—but China’s currency is gaining ground as an international payments option.The yuan’s status as a global currency still faces a huge obstacle in the form of China’s own capital controls. Even so, rising willingness to conduct trade in yuan could help insulate China’s economy, at least to an extent, in the event sanctions were imposed in a hypothetical future conflict with the West. It also could become a source of structural support for the yuan itself, even assuming weaker-than-expected Chinese growth in the years to come.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Singapore’s Non-Oil Domestic Exports Rose in November
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Singapore’s Non-Oil Domestic Exports Rose in November

SINGAPORE—Singapore’s non-oil domestic exports in November increased for the first time in over a year, snapping a run of contractions as shipments of non-electronic products grew.Non-oil domestic exports from the Southeast Asian trading hub in November grew 1.0% from a low base a year ago, Enterprise Singapore said Monday. That compared with a revised 3.5% contraction in October that had marked a 13-month stretch of declines.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
LG Electronics Unveils Restructuring to Boost Global Competitiveness
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LG Electronics Unveils Restructuring to Boost Global Competitiveness

Nov. 24, 2023 12:42 am ETLG Electronics will set up a new sales and marketing entity to oversee international business, part of a series of restructuring moves aimed at boosting the South Korean consumer-electronics maker’s competitiveness and growth.The Seoul-based company said Friday that its newly established overseas sales and marketing company will manage sales subsidiaries in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Latin America and Asia, as well as oversee global marketing and direct-to-consumer sales, in efforts to boost executive capabilities.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Alibaba Scraps Cloud Unit Spinoff, Citing Washington’s Chip Curbs
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Alibaba Scraps Cloud Unit Spinoff, Citing Washington’s Chip Curbs

Nov. 16, 2023 10:10 am ETSINGAPORE—Washington’s latest curbs on the export of high-performance chips to China are beginning to bite.Alibaba on Thursday said it had scrapped its plan to spin off and list its cloud-computing division, citing the impact of the export controls that took effect late last month. The restrictions “may materially and adversely affect” the cloud business’s ability to offer products and services and to perform under existing contracts, Alibaba said, adding that it would focus on the division’s growth.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Alibaba Scraps Cloud Unit Spinoff, Citing Washington’s Chip Curbs
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Alibaba Scraps Cloud Unit Spinoff, Citing Washington’s Chip Curbs

Nov. 16, 2023 10:10 am ETSINGAPORE—Washington’s latest curbs on the export of high-performance chips to China are beginning to bite.Alibaba on Thursday said it had scrapped its plan to spin off and list its cloud-computing division, citing the impact of the export controls that took effect late last month. The restrictions “may materially and adversely affect” the cloud business’s ability to offer products and services and to perform under existing contracts, Alibaba said, adding that it would focus on the division’s growth.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
China Is Making Too Much Stuff—and Other Countries Are Worried
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China Is Making Too Much Stuff—and Other Countries Are Worried

Listen to article(1 minute)Some Chinese factories, saddled with overcapacity in a struggling economy, are trying to export their way out of trouble and stoking new trade tensions in the process.Makers of electric vehicles, solar panels and other products are cutting prices and trying harder to muscle into overseas markets as they face weakened demand at home, upsetting competitors who see threats to their bottom lines.   Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8