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Rolling bans. Reports claim Trump's team is lining up more Chinese tech companies to embargo. Hikvision, the world's largest surveillance company, is reportedly up next, allegedly due to its role in documenting Xinjiang's oppressed Muslim minority. Fellow surveillance firm Dahua and...

Critic questioned. This week Conchita Carpio Morales, a former official from the Philippines, was interrogated by Hong Kong's immigration officers and temporarily denied entry when she arrived in the Semi-Autonomous Region on vacation with her family. Earlier this year, Morales sued China...

Fugitive refugees. In a landmark case, Germany granted asylum to two pro-independence activists from Hong Kong. The two skipped bail and fled Hong Kong in 2017 after being arrested for their role in the politically-charged "fishball revolution." Germany granted the pair refugee status last year...

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SEC Charges Unregistered Broker Who Sold Woodbridge Securities to Retail Investors(HedgeCo.net) (HedgeCo.Net) The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Charles Nilosek, a Massachusetts-based external sales agent for Woodbridge Group of Companies LLC, with illegally selling Woodbridge...

Kyle Bass Is Wrong on Hong Kong’s Peg, Too (Bloomberg) Having failed to preside over a collapse in the yuan, hedge-fund manager Kyle Bass has a new target: the Hong Kong dollar peg. He’s wrong about that, too. Bass is shorting the Hong Kong currency and is “very long dollars,” the founder of...

Automakers' job cuts are at 38,000 and counting As global auto sales slow after a decade of growth, carmakers are girding for a deeper downturn by slashing payrolls. From China to the U.K., Germany, Canada and the U.S., companies have announced at least 38,000 job cuts in the past six months. ...

Boom wants to build a supersonic jet for mainstream passengers While much of the world remains fixated on the race to build autonomous cars, there’s another race that’s gaining momentum fast. It centers on supersonic jets that can fly faster faster than the speed of sound, or 767 miles per...

New Y Combinator president talks about growth plans, HQ move The new president of Y Combinator shares his thoughts on how the Mountain View startup program and investor has evolved and where it's going, including an update on its search for a new headquarters in San Francisco. (San Jose Biz...

Greek Debt When Greece restructured its public debt in 2012, 85.8% of its creditors agreed to take a haircut in the bailout. Some of the rest were deeply unhappy about their losses, and launched a case against the European Central Bank, which supported the restructuring. This morning, the EU...

Deutsche Bank Deutsche Bank CEO Christian Sewing told disgruntled shareholders this morning that the bank is about to see "tough cutbacks." He didn't give much in the way of detail, but he implied cuts at the bank's loss-making U.S. equities business. Financial Times

T-Mobile and Sprint The DOJ's antitrust division could be set to clash with the White House over T-Mobile's proposed Sprint takeover. The White House backs the $26 billion deal, but the competition regulators reportedly believe consumers will suffer, and Fox Business is reporting they want the...

Huawei Vendors The Hang Seng and Shanghai Composite fell today by 1.36% and 1.65% respectively, following news that Japan's Panasonic had become the latest Huawei vendor to suspend work with the Chinese firm. The Nikkei was down 0.6%. European markets also fell by over 1%, and you can expect...

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