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A Chinese battery startup claims to have overcome one of the key sticking points for electric car owners — the loss of power capability and range in cold climates.

Zurich Insurance Group AG and BNP Paribas SA’s Cardif unit are among the parties considering bids for PT Astra International’s life insurance arm, according to people familiar with the matter.

Japanese workers’ real wages continued to fall in April, even after reflecting some of the gains from a solid win in annual pay negotiations, in a disappointing result for both Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and the Bank of Japan.

Mainland investors bought the most Hong Kong shares in over two years through trading links with the city on Monday.

HSBC Holdings Plc plans to hold a new flagship investor conference in Hong Kong next year to replace the marquee event now being dropped by Credit Suisse Group AG.

Family members of a prominent supporter of conservative Republican causes — including a Hamptons real estate agent — died Sunday when their private jet crashed after flying over sensitive government sites in Washington without permission, setting off a security scare.

Australian chemical distribution firm Redox Pty Ltd. has priced it initial public offering at A$2.55 ($1.69) per share for an offer size of A$402 million, setting up the country’s largest listing this year.

A Black former assembly line staffer at Tesla Inc. is moving to add hundreds of other workers to his 2017 lawsuit in which he called the electric-car maker’s production floor a “hotbed for racist behavior.”

Cybersecurity experts are bracing for a potential wave of extortion demands after a vulnerability was discovered in encrypted file-sharing software, a flaw that hackers have already used to target a string of high-profile victims, including British Airways and the BBC.

Apple Inc. will charge an eye-popping $3,499 for its long-awaited mixed-reality headset, testing whether consumers are ready to spend big bucks on a technology that the company sees as the future of computing.