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(Reuters) – The U.S. Commerce Department said on Tuesday it was issuing new export licensing requirements for Nvidia’s H20, AMD’s MI308 artificial intelligence chips, as well as their equivalents, to China. “The Commerce Department is committed to acting on the President’s directive to safeguard our national and economic security,” a Commerce spokesperson said. Nvidia said …

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By Casey Hall and Sophie Yu SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Chinese sellers of items from lunch boxes to appliances have taken to social media platform Rednote to generate sympathy purchases, telling domestic consumers they are offloading stock at bargain prices amid U.S. tariffs. Over the past week, dozens of sellers have broadcast livestreams showing goods produced …

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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s industrial output in March rose 7.7% from a year earlier, quickening from 5.9% growth in the January-February period, official data showed on Wednesday, as the world’s second-largest economy braced for the impact of hefty U.S. trade tariffs. The data released by the National Bureau of Statistics beat a 5.8% expansion forecast …

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BEIJING (Reuters) – Property investment in China fell 9.9% in the first three months of 2025 from a year earlier, after dropping 9.8% in the January-February period, official data showed on Wednesday. Property sales by floor area were down 3.0% in January-March from the previous year, versus a 5.1% contraction in the first two months. …

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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s core machinery orders rose 4.3% in February from the previous month, government data showed on Wednesday. That compared with a 0.8% gain estimated by economists in a Reuters poll. On a year-on-year basis, core orders, a highly volatile data series regarded as a leading indicator of capital spending in the coming …

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By Jamie McGeever ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) – TRADING DAY Making sense of the forces driving global markets By Jamie McGeever, Markets Columnist  ECB, China GDP, Powell up next Investors enjoyed another day of much-needed rest and recuperation on Tuesday after the last few bruising weeks, with no further strains in global trade tensions or left-field …

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