Tensions between the U.S. and China have escalated over the last few years.Teh Eng Koon | AFP | Getty ImagesChina has suspended a ban on approving exports of “dual-use items” related to gallium, germanium, antimony and super-hard materials to the U.S., the commerce ministry said on Sunday.The suspension takes effect from Sunday until Nov. 27, 2026, the ministry said in a statement. It did not give any further details.The ministry announced the ban in December 2024.China announced on Friday the suspension of other export controls imposed on October 9, including expanded curbs on certain rare earth materials and lithium battery…
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Kai Yang Chan (left) and JiaYi Zhou (right) run Singapore-based bakery Cake Inspiration.Courtesy of Cake InspirationWhen Kai Yang Chan and Jiayi Zhuo matched on Tinder at age 19, neither of them expected that it would lead to marriage. Six years later, not only have they tied the knot — they’re also business partners.”I downloaded Tinder because I was very bored in school, so I was just [swiping] through during class,” said Zhuo. “Both of us — we didn’t expect that we’d get together,” she said.”Personality wise, we are quite different,” she said, adding that while she is more introverted, her…
The city of Lisbon in Portugal turns to tech next week, as it plays host to the annual Web Summit conference. The event, also known as the “Davos for geeks,” will feature some of the biggest names in technology at an interesting time for the sector. It attracted more than 70 ,000 attendees last year.Main stage attractions include leaders from Meta, Lovable, Qualcomm and Microsoft to name just a few. CNBC’s Arjun Kharpal will be on the ground, speaking to big players, including the CEOs of Lyft, Oura, DeepL and Cohere.Portugal’s Prime Minister Luis Montenegro speaks during the opening ceremony…
NANJING, CHINA – NOVEMBER 9, 2025 – Citizens shopping at a farmers’ market in Nanjing, China’s Jiangsu Province on November 9, 2025.Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty ImagesDeflation pressures in China alleviated in October as consumer prices returned to growth after remaining in negative territory for the most part this year, helped by holiday season demand, with the decline in wholesale prices also moderating. Data from China’s National Bureau of Statistics released Sunday showed consumer price index reading for October at 0.2%, compared with analysts’ expectations of zero, or flat growth year on year. October’s reading was the strongest this…
U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) speaks to reporters outside his office on the fourteenth day of the U.S. government shutdown on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., Oct. 14, 2025. Elizabeth Frantz | ReutersBipartisan talks in the U.S. Senate to end the government shutdown have taken a positive turn, Senate Majority Leader John Thune said on Saturday, with lawmakers working on deals to temporarily reopen the government and introduce three longer-term funding bills for some agencies.Asked by reporters whether there have been bipartisan talks within the last 24 hours that have been positive in nature, Thune, a South…
Everyone who knows me knows that I can’t stand owing money. I pay down my credit cards every month, and I complete Venmo requests the second I get them.The only debt I have left is my student loan, which has been on minimum payment autopilot since I graduated from college in 2013. For many years, I left those payments on the back burner, funneling any extra savings I had toward my investments.Recently, though, my financial strategy changed after my fiancé and I began planning for a wedding in summer 2027. I sold a fair amount of stock and dialed back…
U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during an event to announce a deal with Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk to reduce the prices of GLP-1 weight‑loss drugs, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., November 6, 2025. Jonathan Ernst | ReutersPresident Donald Trump proposed a compromise on health insurance payments, calling on Republicans to send federal payments that would go to insurers under the Affordable Care Act directly to Americans to bring an end to the government shutdown.”I am recommending to Senate Republicans that the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars currently being sent…
A Republic Airways plane takes off near the air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) in Arlington, Virginia, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. Samuel Corum | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesU.S. airlines will have to cut hundreds more flights next week if Congress can’t come to a solution to end the government shutdown, now the longest in U.S. history.Trump administration officials this week ordered airlines to start cutting flights at 40 busy U.S. airports on Friday, blaming “increased reports of strain on the system from both pilots and air traffic controllers.”Air traffic controllers, along with airport security screeners, are required to…
It was a terrible start to November on Wall Street. The tech-heavy Nasdaq sank just over 3% in its worst weekly performance since early April. The S & P 500 fell 1.6% for the week. Both stock measures broke three-week winning streaks.This week’s market decline, which followed a strong October, can be chalked up to two reasons. First, investors grew concerned about the eye-watering valuations of stocks tied to artificial intelligence. Case in point: Nvidia lost its $5 trillion market cap designation in a weekly loss of 7%. The weakness in Nvidia was exacerbated by the realization that China would…
In 2020, Anita Kinoshita, 28 years old at the time, started looking into buying a house.Kinoshita was living in California and making around $70,000 a year as a software engineer for the Department of Defense.As a first-generation American from a farming family in Mexico, Kinoshita believed the best way to finally achieve the American dream her family had for her was to own property.”I had my first big girl job and thought the next responsible thing to do would be to buy a house,” Kinoshita tells CNBC Make It. “I didn’t necessarily want to buy a house. In fact, I…
