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Technical foul: Chinese traders in online sneaker market punish NBA after HK controversy

On Oct. 4, a Chinese trader noticed a sharp drop in the price of crypto tokens backed by Nike’s Air Jordan sneakers on a U.S.-based exchange after the general manager of the NBA’s Houston Rockets tweeted support for the protests in Hong Kong. The trader posted about the fall – which he told Reuters was more than 10% at the time – on Weibo, China’s equivalent of Twitter. “But it’s clear sneaker speculators were pulling money out of the market” after the Chinese government and netizens responded angrily to the comment by Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey, …read more […]

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Boeing 777-8’s entry into service date depends partly on customer demand: executive

The date of entry into service of Boeing Co’s ultra-long-range 777-8 wide-body airliner will depend partly on customer demand, an executive said, with the planemaker hoping to win an order from Qantas Airways Ltd to supply the plane for Sydney-London flights.

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UPDATE 1-Chevron starts maintenance at Gorgon LNG export plant in Australia

The company planned to shut more than half an LNG train at the facility from Oct. 11 to Nov. 29, and more than 1 LNG train over May 23-July 11, next year, according to the notice. A company spokesman confirmed that Gorgon Train 1 was currently under maintenance, and said the work had been scheduled into customer cargo deliveries. The three-train Gorgon project, one of the world’s largest natural gas projects, can produce 15.6 million tonnes of LNG annually, according to Chevron’s website. …read more […]

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Asian shares rise after Wall Street gain on solid earnings

Asian shares were mostly higher Wednesday after a Wall Street rally driven by healthy earnings reports from U.S. companies. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng was unchanged at 26,505.95, while the Shanghai Composite index lost 0.3% to 2,982.74. Stocks notched solid gains on Wall Street on Tuesday as investors welcomed surprisingly good quarterly results from some of the nation’s biggest companies. …read more […]

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Tata Looks for Jaguar Land Rover Partners, But Rules Out Sale

(Bloomberg) — Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. The Indian conglomerate that owns Jaguar Land Rover said it is open to finding partners for the automaker but isn’t planning on selling the embattled unit.“We’re not going to sell,” said Natarajan Chandrasekaran, chairman of Tata Sons Ltd., the holding company in an expansive business empire that includes Tata Motors Ltd. “Auto is a core business for us. From revenue terms, auto is our largest company.”Tata Motors bought the maker of the Jaguar XE sedan and Land Rover Discovery sport …read more […]