Industrials

Electric Vehicles

CATL Comes Fully Charged in Hong Kong Debut

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CATL — blacklisted by the US Department of Defense in January for alleged ties to the Chinese military — pulled off the best IPO of the year.

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Enterprise AI

Battlefield AI Grapples With Risk-Tolerance Minefield

Future battlefields will be shaped by AI weapons that defense firms and Big Tech are vying to build for the military. Guardrails are lagging.

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Industrials

Embattled Boeing Shows Surprising Signs of a Turnaround

It was only last year that 737 felt like the number of scandals Boeing was embroiled in, rather than the name of its narrow-body aircraft.

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International Economics

China Trumpets Trade War Mettle With Strategic Mineral Advantage

China is a top global producer of 30 of the 50 minerals the US considers critical, and is sources more than half of the US annual supply.

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Industrials

Manufacturing Discontent: Can Tariffs Spur Domestic Reindustrialization?

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As a share of US GDP, the manufacturing sector has decreased from a nearly 25% peak in the 1950s to about 11% today.

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Industrials

Small Danish Space Company’s Stock Skyrockets on EU Spending Plans

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Policies floated by European Union leaders that could boost the bloc’s defense spending have sent the company’s shares flying.

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Industrials

Honeywell Becomes Latest of America’s Vanishing Big Industrial Conglomerates to Split

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Among the conglomerates to go this route have been Alcoa in 2016, United Technologies in 2018 and, last year, General Electric.

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Industrials

Hypersonic Missiles Startup Raises $100 Million for “Non-Nuclear Deterrent”

The startup promises to fill a void in one area where US military research and development has been caught flat-footed.

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Technology

The State of the Billionaire Space Race

Blue Origin is going slower than SpaceX, but it also nailed a massive rocket launch on the first try. Jeff Bezos is back in the space race.

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Industrials

Saudi Arabia Invests $100 billion in Mining

The focus will be on mining earth metals including lithium, zinc, copper and nickel, all crucial metals for battery-making.

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