A general view of the office building of Baidu is in Pudong, Shanghai, on Feb. 9, 2026. Ying Tang | Nurphoto | Getty Images The Pentagon added a slew of Chinese companies, including Alibaba Group, Baidu Inc and carmaker BYD, to a list of entities it believes have aided the Chinese military, complicating the fragile…
AI signage at the Robert Bosch booth at the Beijing Auto Show in Beijing, China, on Saturday, April 25, 2026. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING — Electric carmakers in China are layering on more of the same artificial intelligence features as they try to survive a prolonged price war in the world’s largest…
The world’s largest car carrier, BYD ”Shenzhen”, loads over 7,000 BYD new energy commercial vehicles at Haitong Terminal in Taicang Port Area, Suzhou Port, and sets sail for Brazil in Taicang City, Jiangsu Province, China, on April 27, 2025. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Electric car giant BYD has become the first Chinese business…
A journalist films Xiaomi SU7 Ultra cars during a Xiaomi track day driving experience in Tianjin, in northern China on April 23, 2026, ahead of the Beijing Auto Show which opens on April 24. (Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP via Getty Images) Greg Baker | Afp | Getty Images BEIJING — Foreign automakers are…
CHONGQING, CHINA DECEMBER 17: A man wearing a chef uniform looks at his mobile phone as he walks past a large illuminated KFC logo at a restaurant on December 17, 2025, in Chongqing, China. (Photo by Cheng Xin/Getty Images) Cheng Xin | Getty Images News | Getty Images Electric vehicle giant BYD announced Wednesday that…
Japan ,Tokyo City skyline, Tokyo Tower. Prisma By Dukas | Universal Images Group | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets fell Friday, after U.S. tech stocks lost ground and investors’ hopes of a December rate cut by the Federal Reserve faded. Japan’s Nikkei 225 tumbled 1.57% at the open, while the Topix index lost 0.72%. Tech conglomerate…
BYD has slashed its sales target for this year by as much as 16% to 4.6 million vehicles, two people with knowledge of the matter said. Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images Chinese electric carmaker BYD sold 11,271 cars in the U.K. last month, the company said on Monday, representing year-on-year growth of 880%….
A bronze sculpture of a bull is displayed on Broadway in the financial district November 14, 2000 in New York City. Chris Hondros | Hulton Archive | Getty Images Investors continue to pile into stocks, undeterred by a government shutdown or shaky jobs data, with all three benchmarks hitting record highs Thursday. With the Senate…
(This is the Warren Buffett Watch newsletter, news and analysis on all things Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway. You can sign up here to receive it every Friday evening in your inbox.) Hours after we first reported last week that Berkshire sold off the remainder of its stake in BYD earlier this year, the Chinese electric vehicle maker confirmed…
Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange on June 4, 2025. NYSE Here are two statements that, on the surface, may appear contradictory: The U.S. labor market is weakening, with the number of jobs in June actually decreasing. The U.S. stock market is hitting all-time highs, with the Nasdaq Composite being the latest index…