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A Chinese miner is set to overtake Glencore Plc as the world’s top cobalt producer this year, as the rush for critical green-energy metals intensifies.

Thailand will hold a general election on May 14, with a pre-poll survey showing opposition parties holding a clear lead over military-backed establishment parties in the outgoing government led by Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-Ocha.

Stablecoin giant Circle Internet Financial Ltd. is planning to locate its European headquarters in Paris, citing the crypto-friendly climate created by President Emmanuel Macron’s government as instrumental to the decision.

Some of Europe’s largest banks seized on the turmoil that engulfed Credit Suisse Group AG last week by facilitating billions of dollars in bond trading as investors bet on the Swiss lender’s fate.

Investor sentiment in Germany’s economy fell for the first time in six months as concerns over risks in the banking sector add to headwinds from inflation faced by companies and households.

Elon Musk-loving stock traders are famously bullish on Tesla Inc., the eighth most-valued company in the world. Now credit-rating providers, playing catch-up, are giving heft to the automaker’s blue-chip valuation.

Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd., the centerpiece of billionaire Li Shufu’s car empire, posted earnings that beat estimates and forecast further sales growth this year.

Mercedes-Benz Group AG suffered a setback in a dispute at the European Union’s top court over its duty to compensate owners of cars equipped with illegal computer technology that overrides anti-pollution systems in order to protect components at low temperatures.

Sri Lanka clinched a $3 billion bailout loan from the International Monetary Fund after six months of negotiations. Now comes the harder part: getting a debt restructuring agreement and seeing through monetary policy and tax reforms.

Ask lawyers about Eric Davis, the judge overseeing the $1.6 billion defamation suit against Fox News by Dominion Voting Systems over its broadcasting of 2020 election-fraud claims, and the same word comes up over and over again – steady.