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Volvo Cars quarterly operating profit beats expectations despite tariff hit
Volvo Cars reported a sharp decline in second-quarter operating profit on Thursday that nonetheless exceeded analyst ...
China Faces Growth Test as Housing, Retail Sales, and Tariffs Weigh on Outlook
Housing market data added to Beijing’s challenge to meet the 5% GDP growth target for 2025. China’s House Price Index fell ...
Behind China’s solid Q2 growth: Workers face wage cuts, late pay, and second jobs
China’s economy posts supply-driven 5.2pc growth in Q2Chinese exports show resilience to US tariffsBut other indicators point ...
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Volvo Cars reports Q2 2025 results, turnaround plan is fully on track
Volvo Cars today reports a group operating profit (EBIT) of SEK -10.0 billion for the second quarter of 2025. The result reflects a continued challenging environment for the automotive industry, but ...
China’s 5.3% H1 growth spurs upward GDP forecasts by global financial institutions
Following the release of China's first-half economic data, major foreign financial institutions, including UBS, Morgan ...
Cloudflare blocked 7.3 million DDoS attacks in Q2 2025, India fourth most attacked country
Cloudflare blocked 7.3 million DDoS attacks in Q2 2025, a drop from Q1’s 20.5 million, but 44% higher YoY compared to Q2 2024. While network-layer attacks dropped 81% QoQ, HTTP attacks rose 9% from Q1 ...
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The Case That China Is Now Actively Resisting Pressure on the Yuan to Appreciate
Chinese state bank have been consistently accumulating foreign assets.  The direction of pressure on China's currency has changed; without backdoor intervention it would now be getting stronger.
Global Smartphone Sales Hardly Grew in Q2, But This Company Stayed Ahead
Global smartphone shipments saw a slight 1% year-over-year increase in the second quarter of 2025, according to the latest ...
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Chinese growth is decent, but could be a lot better
Iron-ore outlook steadied by talk of surprise property-support meeting and PBoC balance-sheet pickup; watch credit impulse ...
Market Overreacts To ASML Q2 Earnings, Calm Heads Won't
ASML Holding N.V. beats Q2 expectations with strong bookings and 2025 guidance. Click for my updated look at ASML earnings ...
ASML outlines 15% revenue growth for 2025 amid strong EUV demand and macro uncertainty
Fouquet confirmed that ASML now guides full 2025 revenue to increase by around 15% with gross margin of around 52%. Dassen guided Q3 net sales to be between EUR 7.4 billion and EUR 7.9 billion, with ...
Johnson & Johnson Tops Q2 Estimates
Key Points Adjusted EPS reached $2.77 in Q2, topping estimates by $0.09, but fell year over year.Revenue rose 5.8% year over year to $23.7 billion, exceeding estimates by $889 million.Full-year 2025 ...