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Canon tries to break ASML’s grip on chipmaking tools

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.Purveyors of chipmaking tools seldom attract attention. Yet many investors’ heads turned on...

Why big oil is beefing up its trading arms

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.IN THE 1950s the oil market was in the gift of the “Seven...

Are America’s CEOs overpaid?

“We’re fed up with falling behind,” declared Shawn Fain, the boss of America’s United Auto Workers (UAW), last month after the union began a campaign of intermittent strikes at Ford, General Motors...

Are America’s allies the holes in its export-control fence?

AMERICA MAKES no bones about wanting to stop China, its autocratic rival for geopolitical supremacy, from getting hold of advanced technology. Any day now the White House is expected to extend restrictions...

The fall of China’s “manganese king” may hit global EV supply chains

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.ONE AFTER another, the empires of China’s most powerful industrialists are collapsing. In...

Taiwan will not surrender its semiconductor supremacy

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.FROM the 1970s until a few years ago Taiwan’s semiconductor sector looked worthy...

Trialling the two-day workweek

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.We have completed our pilot of the two-day workweek, and present our findings...

Weight-loss drugs are no match for the might of big food

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.TO GET A sense of why periodic panics about the impact of weight-loss...

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