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Big Techs Coup - Foreign Affairs

On August 30, the Brazilian Supreme Court banned X—the social media
platform formally known as Twitter—from its country’s Internet.
The ban was the culmination of a months-long fight between Elon Musk,
the platform’s owner and the world’s richest man, and Alexandre de
Moraes, one of the court’s justices. Moraes was tasked with
investigating the role of online disinformation in attempts to keep
former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in power, despite losing the
election. As part of these duties, Moraes had ordered X to take down
hundreds of accounts spreading disinformation. In response, the
platform accused the justice of censorship. Musk withdrew the
representatives X legally needed to operate in Brazil, which
eventually led the justice to prevent Brazilians from accessing the
platform altogether.

Musk did not take kindly to the decision, comparing Moraes to an
“evil tyrant.” But Musk did not confine his anger to harsh
denunciations. According to reporting by The New York Times, he
actively worked around the order. First, Musk encouraged Brazilians to
use virtual private networks (VPNs) to evade the blockage. Then, his
Starlink satellite network, which provides Internet service to
subscribers directly from space, continued providing access to the
site. Finally, X rerouted its Internet traffic through new servers,
allowing it to circumvent Brazil’s telecommunication controls
altogether.

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Exclusive: Marvel Fusion lands $70M for laser-powered fusion bet |
TechCrunch
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Back in 2019, Microsoft launched Dapr, a new open source project that
made building event-driven distributed applications easier for
developers. Like so many popular open source projects, Dapr spawned
its…

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Chinas accelerating green transition - FT [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=69991&nl=daily]
Two-thirds of all new solar and wind power projects are based in the
country. But to wean industry off coal, Beijing needs to set up a real
energy market















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Why eight Tokyo minutes from office to metro is too long - FT
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The city is seeing a boom in commercial construction but labour
scarcity has made location a critical concern for companies

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Chinese billionaires direct train to Silicon Valley attracts FBI
attention - FT [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=69991&nl=daily]
Shan Xiangshuangs $10bn buyout group quietly became a top US tech
investor. That has triggered official concern














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Saudi Arabia ready to abandon $100 crude target to take back market
share - FT [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=69991&nl=daily]
Kingdom prepares to raise output from December as it resigns itself to
lower global prices

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China market support may fizzle out if key issues remain unsolved -
WSJ [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=69991&nl=daily]
China’s over $100 billion push to bolster its stock markets has
stirred optimism, but begs the question of whether investors and
businesses will take the bait amid lingering doubts about the
economy’s underlying weakness.














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If green energy is the future, bring a fire extinguisher - WSJ
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Alternative energy is exploding—literally. Lithium battery fires are
breaking out on highways and in factories, home garages and storage
rooms. The rise in these fires is caused by government efforts to
force the adoption of “green" energy.

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Backed into corner, Hezbollah must make a fateful decision - WSJ
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Hezbollah is dealing with some disagreement among its ranks over how
to respond to a series of devastating attacks on the Lebanese militant
group, according to people familiar with the group’s deliberations.
With no good options available, the group faces one of the most
consequential decisions in its four-decade history.














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China-linked hackers hit US internet providers in new Salt Typhoon
cyberattack - WSJ [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=69991&nl=daily]
Hackers linked to the Chinese government have broken into a handful of
U.S. internet service providers in recent months in pursuit of
sensitive information, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Egyptian pyramids were built using an ingenious machine, new discovery
shows
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The study suggests that water was enabled to flow into two shafts,
located in the pyramid itself, which were used to help raise and lower
a float used to carry the heavy stone building blocks.














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Israel tells troops to prepare for possible ground offensive in
Lebanon - FT [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=69991&nl=daily]
Joe Biden warns that all-out war is possible but pushes for ceasefire

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Qantas Deceived Almost 1 Million Passengers With Fake Flights -
Bloomberg [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=69991&nl=daily]
Scandal covered ghost flights from 2022 to 2024, filing shows














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Can anybody save Intel? - The Economist [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=69991&nl=daily]
Intel has spent two decades missing the next big thing. The chipmakers
dominant PC business blinded it to the opportunity from mobile phones
in the 2000s. More recently, the firm was slow to adopt
extreme-ultraviolet lithography, an expensive chipmaking process that
was originally funded by Intel itself. Now Nvidia dominates the
white-hot market for designing artificial-intelligence (AI) chips,
becoming the worlds most valuable semiconductor company. Investors in
Intel have voted with their feet (see chart).

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Why This Marketing Veteran Says The CMO Role Should Stay - Forbes
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Its an on-again, off-again trend: Companies get rid of CMO roles,
renaming the role and adding different responsibilities, or making
large changes to how messaging and targeting happen. In many
situations, the same companies add a CMO again after a couple of
years. I talked to MaryLee Sachs, marketing veteran and U.S. CEO of
consulting firm Brandpie, about the issue. Sachs is also program
director for the Conference Board Council for CMOs.














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How Greys Anatomy keeps upping drama: Sex, disasters and more than 140
tumors - WSJ [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=69991&nl=daily]
Dr. Meredith Grey has nearly died seven times. The hospital where she
works has faced a bomb, an earthquake, shootings and a flood. Patients
and staff in her hospital have been diagnosed with more than 140
tumors.

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Moderna is scolded by a U.K. trade group for offering kids $2,000 to
participate in a Covid trial - STAT [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=69991&nl=daily]
The trial, which was called NextCOVE, recruited adults and children
age 12 and older in a number of locations last year around the U.K.,
the U.S. and Canada. A pediatrician, who worked at an unnamed hospital
in the U.K., posted the message in hopes of soliciting participants,
mentioned the amount of money involved, and closed by saying Wed love
to have you on board!













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This Meghan Markle-Backed Beverage Brand Is Now in Target and Whole
Foods. Here's What the Founder Learned About a Successful Retail
Launch - Inc.com [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=69991&nl=daily]
She saw it first-hand early in her career, she says, working for a
"retail forward" consumer packaged goods brand and witnessing all the
"human power" needed to make it run successfully. So, when Mendoza,
now 33, ultimately co-founded and became CEO of Clevr Blends, she
didn't take the move into retail lightly.

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How much should we worry about the health effects of microplastics? -
New Scientist [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=69991&nl=daily]
A flurry of studies has found microplastics in nearly every organ in
the human body, from the brain to the testicles. But very few have
revealed whether these tiny bits of plastic impact our health

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Cranes Base Their Migration Strategy on Shifting Environmental
Conditions - Discover Magazine [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=69991&nl=daily]
Many wonder how birds migrate vast distances. A study in the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences investigates that and
also looks into the where, when, and why of avian travel. They found
that birds flock to drastically different environmental conditions
that meet different needs over the course of a year.

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How to Order Your Free COVID-19 Tests
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has not yet provided
an official date that the nasal swab tests will be available, but says
kits should be ready to order by the end of September. The initiative
is rolling out ahead of the holiday season, when colds, flus and other
illnesses become more common.

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The 6 thinkers who would define a second Trump term
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His politics come from the gut, a combination of his own instincts and
an animalistic talent for reading his supporters emotions and
enthusiasms. The idea that Trump is attuned to the debates roiling
conservative intellectuals arguments about Hungarian family policy and
concepts with names like postliberalism doesnt pass the laugh test.

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A teacher caught students using ChatGPT on their first assignment to
introduce themselves. Her post about it started a debate. | Business
Insider India
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"They all owned up to it, to their credit," Fritts told Business
Insider. "But it was just really surprising to me that — what was
supposed to be a kind of freebie in terms of assignments — even that
they felt compelled to generate with an LLM."

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Eric Adams reportedly indicted: Everything we know
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The New York Times reported on Wednesday night that Adams became the
first sitting mayor in the city's history to face a criminal
indictment. The nature of the charges is unclear, as the indictment
remains sealed, with further details expected on Thursday.

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Why Ive tracked every single piece of clothing Ive worn for three
years
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Are expensive clothes really worth their price? I took a
data-supported look at how to clean up and restock your closet.

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Why Nearly 80 Percent of Autoimmune Sufferers Are Female
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Melanie See’s first bout of odd symptoms began in 2005. Suddenly she
started sweating a lot. She rapidly lost 10 pounds. She got dizzy
walking from the bedroom to the couch. She started lactating even
though she was not nursing a baby. After a slew of laboratory tests,
See, then 45, was diagnosed with Graves’ disease, an autoimmune
disorder that makes thyroid hormones surge.

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Why are the violins the biggest section in the orchestra?
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This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial
processand policies.Editors have highlightedthe following attributes
while ensuring the content's credibility:

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How to Improve Your Flexibility The Bodys Secret Weapon for Staying
Healthy and Active
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Flexibility might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you
think about health and fitness, but it's one of the most important
aspects of maintaining your body's overall wellbeing.

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How We Sort the World: Gregory Murphy on the Psychology of Categories
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Despite the vast diversity and individuality in every life, we seek
patterns, organization, and control. Or, as cognitive psychologist
Gregory Murphy puts it: “We put an awful lot of effort into trying
to figure out and convince others of just what kind of person someone
is, what kind of action something was, and even what kind of object
something is.”

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Does red light therapy work' These are the benefits and drawbacks
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If you are interested in beauty trends and self-care, you’ve
probably encountered red light therapy (RLT). Formally known as
photobiomodulation, doctors first discovered that red and
near-infrared light wavelengths sped hair regrowth in the late
sixties. Later studies found it boosted wound healing. Since then, it
has gradually entered the esthetics field, initially gaining traction
as an in-office tool for post-operative recovery in plastic surgery
patients, explains Dr Prem Tripathi, a facial plastic surgeon based in
Alamo, California.

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The human heart shows signs of ageing after just a month in space
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with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we
recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility
mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued
support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

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France and US push for 21-day Hezbollah-Israel ceasefire in Lebanon as
UN chief warns 'hell is breaking loose'
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But he insisted the origin of the conflict was the hundreds of
thousands of Lebanese civilians, and 65,000 Israeli civilians, who
have been displaced due to Hezbollah's decision on 8 October to break
the peace that has largely endured.

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First Thing: Netanyahu rules out US-French ceasefire proposal
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Israeli prime minister’s office ‘did not even respond’ to the
plan. Plus, how Britishisms invaded the US

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Newsom vetoes key part of reparations package in another blow to deal
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The administration’s department of finance said earlier this year it
opposed the eminent domain bill because it was not specifically
included in the budget. The agency said the cost to implement it was
unknown but could have ranged “from hundreds of thousands of dollars
to low millions of dollars annually, depending on the workload
required to accept, review and investigate applications”.

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Dinii, a cloud-based restaurant management platform, raises $45M
Series B | TechCrunch
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Back in 2019, Microsoft launched Dapr, a new open source project that
made building event-driven distributed applications easier for
developers. Like so many popular open source projects, Dapr spawned
its…

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Pear wants to empower up-and-coming VCs with its new emerging managers
in residence program | TechCrunch
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Back in 2019, Microsoft launched Dapr, a new open source project that
made building event-driven distributed applications easier for
developers. Like so many popular open source projects, Dapr spawned
its…

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About 45% of Americans will run out of money in retirement, including
those who invested and diversified. Here are the 4 biggest mistakes
being made.
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As for those who do take risks, it's often the wrong kind. They chase
hype and bet on highly speculative investments. They end up losing
money and assume risk is bad, Baumgarten said. The right kind of risk
is a higher exposure to stocks through mutual funds or index funds and
even buying blue chip stocks, he noted.

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Stocks Rally on China's Fiscal Aid, Fed Cut Wagers: Markets Wrap
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Israeli assets rallied after the US, European Union, and major powers
in the Middle East including Saudi Arabia and Qatar proposed a
three-week cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

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Congress must reauthorize the Older Americans Act to keep seniors safe
from heat
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Marquisha Johns is the associate director for public health policy at
the Center for American Progress. Casey Doherty is a policy analyst
for the Disability Justice Initiative at the Center for American
Progress.

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As Exxon pumps Guyanas Oil, China is winning battle for influence -
WSJ [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=69991&nl=daily]
GEORGETOWN, Guyana—More than 100 miles off the coast of Guyana,
Exxon Mobil is pumping hundreds of thousands of barrels every day from
a gargantuan oil discovery that is transforming the sparsely populated
South American country.

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America Is Polarized. Why Are New Yorks Suburbs Undecided? - The New
Yorker [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=69991&nl=daily]
Like other top Democrats, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is taking
New York very personally this year. During a live interview at the
Democratic National Convention, she told Politicos Jonathan Martin
that the state was key to Democrats winning control of the House in
November. She reminded Martin that the Party unexpectedly lost five
competitive congressional races in New York two years ago. What
happened last time in New York, do you think? he asked. Pelosi
frowned. The gubernatorial race, she said coolly. In 2022, New York
Governor Kathy Hochul beat her Republican challenger by just six per
cent of the vote. It was the worst statewide showing by a Democrat in
two decades.

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PCOS Linked to Greater Risk of Eating Disorders - Scientific American
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Rachel Feltman: Polycystic ovary syndrome, or PCOS, affects as many as
five million people in the U.S. alone. But in spite of how common PCOS
is, its also quite poorly understood. Many people with the condition
remain undiagnosed as they grapple with irregular periods, changes in
their hair growth and body composition, acne and even infertility. If
and when they do manage to get a diagnosis, theyre often told to focus
on lifestyle changes like weight loss to mitigate symptoms. Now some
researchers are pushing back against this generalized advice, which
they say isnt just unhelpful but sometimes actively harmful.

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Iran is waiting for a President Harris - WSJ
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Why hasn’t Iran retaliated against Israel for the July 31 killing of
Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran? The Biden
administration wants to believe that it has intimidated the Islamic
Republic into better behavior—that the successful American-led
effort to intercept 300 Iranian missiles and drones fired at Israel in
April depressed and deterred Supreme Leader Ali Khameini. The real
answer may be that Iran is playing a longer game and showing restraint
to advance its nuclear ambitions.

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Three years after the U.S. withdrawal, former Afghan forces are hunted
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The Taliban are still hunting down former Afghan soldiers and police
officers, three years after the chaotic American withdrawal. Many of
the men, who were trained by U.S. and NATO forces, simply disappear
from homes and villages. Others are on the run, or in hiding.
Mohammed, a former police officer, is one of them.

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3 Takeaways From Kamala Harris's Interview on MSNBC
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Instead of offering any explanation for why Mr. Trump polls better on
the economy — a matter that has vexed Democrats as President Biden
has overseen a steadily improving economy — Ms. Harris instead
blasted Mr. Trump’s record. She blamed him for a loss of
manufacturing and autoworker jobs and said his tariff proposals would
serve as an added sales tax on American consumers.

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Dame Judi Dench and John Cena to voice Meta AI chatbot
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However, ahead of Meta's annual showcase, thousands of Facebook and
Instagram users, including many celebrities, shared a Stories post
that falsely claimed people had to repost it if they did not want the
firm to use their content to train its AI tools.

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American Eagle sues Amazon over alleged 'knock-offs' of Aerie products
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In 2019, Amazon added a line to the "risk factors" section of its
annual financial filing warning investors of the growing threat of
third-party sellers peddling counterfeits. Since then, the company has
stepped up its efforts to police counterfeits on its site, launching a
team that pursues criminal action against counterfeiters, filing
lawsuits and rolling out tools to help brands protect their
trademarks.

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Free Covid Tests Are Coming Back
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Dawn O’Connell, the assistant secretary for preparedness and
response at the Department of Health and Human Services, said it was
important to make sure Americans had access to free tests as they
spend more time indoors and gather for the holidays.

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Putin reveals new rules on nuclear weapons in Russia's latest warning
to the West
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On Wednesday, Putin said Moscow reserves the right to use nuclear
weapons in case of an attack on Belarus, as it's part of the "Union
State" with Russia â a special partnership between the neighbors and
allies. That includes cases when the enemy, using conventional
weapons, "creates critical danger to our sovereignty," Putin said.

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SK Hynix shares jump as company announces mass production of updated
AI chip
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Buoyed by Micron's upbeat forecasts and SK Hynix's announcement, Asian
chip stocks rallied Thursday morning, with Tokyo Electron climbing 7%,
Advantest jumping 5%. The world's largest memory chipmaker Samsung
Electronics advanced over 3%.

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H&M shares fall as much as 8% on profit miss and scrapped earnings
margin target
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Analysts at UBS said in a research note that some of the most
noteworthy areas of H&M's results included bumper sales in local
currencies, an increase to the cost of the firm's markdowns and the
retailer's plan to reduce its net store count.

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