By Sam Tobin LONDON, Dec 9 (Reuters) – Jimi Hendrix’s classic 1960s albums are the focus of a London lawsuit over performers’ rights asserted on behalf of his British bassist and drummer against Sony Music Entertainment, which warns that a win for the claimants could “throw the music industry into chaos”. Guitarist Noel Redding, who …
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By Robert Harvey LONDON, Dec 9 (Reuters) – Global commodities trading house Trafigura raised its dividends by 50% to almost $3 billion in 2025, despite a small drop in net profit after a second consecutive year of high impairments. Trafigura’s net profit fell 3% to $2.67 billion in its 2025 financial year to September 30, …
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By Tim Hepher and Sophie Yu PARIS, Dec 9 (Reuters) – Airbus has secured Chinese agreement to go ahead with the delivery of 120 previously ordered jets, the company said, but the deal signed in Beijing leaves the European planemaker still waiting for progress on a new order for hundreds of jets. French President Emmanuel …
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By May Angel LONDON, Dec 9 (Reuters) – Cane farmers in Thailand, the world’s second-largest sugar exporter after Brazil, are switching to cassava as prices for the sugary crop plunge and fields in some parts of the country battle a disease outbreak, analyst Green Pool said. Ample supplies in Thailand and beyond pushed global sugar …
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BEIJING, Dec 9 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said the United States would allow Nvidia’s H200 processors to be exported to China, though it remains unclear whether Beijing will give the green light to Chinese companies to purchase them. China now has a number of AI chipmakers, as the country looks to wean itself …
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TOKYO, Dec 9 (Reuters) – Japan’s government on Tuesday denied a media report that it had rebuffed a European Union request to join plans to use frozen Russian state assets to fund Ukraine. “It’s completely false,” Vice Finance Minister for International Affairs Atsushi Mimura told reporters, referring to a report by POLITICO. “Japan has acted …
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By Stephen Nellis, Karen Freifeld and Michael Martina WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) – The United States will allow Nvidia’s H200 processors, its second-best artificial intelligence chips, to be exported to China and collect a 25% fee on such sales, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday. The decision appears to settle a U.S. debate about …
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By Makiko Yamazaki TOKYO, Dec 9 (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan plans to ramp up government bond buying if long-term interest rates rise sharply, Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Tuesday, noting that the recent rate rises had been “somewhat rapid”. “Recently, long-term rates have been rising at a somewhat rapid pace,” Ueda told parliament, …
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Dec 9 (Reuters) – Beijing is set to limit access to Nvidia’s advanced H200 chips despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to allow the export of the technology to China, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, citing two people with knowledge of the matter. (Reporting by Arsheeya Bajwa in Bengaluru; Editing by Arun Koyyur)
By Jasper Ward WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) – Two Chinese men are in custody for allegedly smuggling Nvidia H100 and H200 chips to China, the U.S. Justice Department said on Monday, as President Donald Trump gave the green light for Nvidia to export its H200 chips to Beijing. Prosecutors allege that Fanyue Gong, 43, a …
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