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Ahead of Bezos visit, India antitrust chief says e-commerce firms shouldn’t offer heavy discounts

Big e-commerce firms should not offer steep discounts, must disclose discounting policies and ensure they do not drive brick-and-mortar rivals out of business, India’s antitrust chief said as his commission launched a probe into Amazon.com and Walmart’s Flipkart.

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An 1,800-Word Ramble Won't Save Siemens's Soul

(Bloomberg Opinion) — “If I’d had more time,” the French mathematician Blaise Pascal once wrote, “I’d have written with more brevity.” Joe Kaeser, the chief executive officer of German industrial giant Siemens AG, should have heeded that dictum.His 1,800-word open letter this week explaining Siemens’s decision to provide rail signaling for the controversial Carmichael coal project in Australia must count as one of the strangest pieces of executive communication since Elon Musk last opened his mouth. Almost twice the length of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” it’s a stream-of-consciousness that veers in the space of a few paragraphs …read more […]

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TSMC, Samsung & Why Asia Chipmaker Profits Are Key

(Bloomberg) — With tech earnings looming this month, investor attention is zeroing in on some of Asia’s largest chipmakers. And there’s reason for it: the sector’s influence on the region’s stocks has kept on growing.Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is set to report fourth-quarter results Thursday, potentially hitting record revenue of more than $10.2 billion and its highest quarterly gross margins since 2018, Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Charles Shum said in a Jan. 7 preview. TSMC shares are up more than 4% this month and touched an intraday high Tuesday.“Many of TSMC’s customers such as Huawei, Qualcomm and Mediatek are quickening their …read more […]

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China to pump up U.S. car, aircraft, energy purchases in trade deal: source

China has pledged to buy nearly an additional $80 billion of manufactured goods from the United States over the next two years, plus just over $50 billion more in energy supplies, under a trade deal with China to be signed on Wednesday, a source briefed on the agreement said on Monday.

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