Economic News

WASHINGTON—The U.S. and Japan reached a trade agreement for minerals used in clean-energy technologies, a deal aimed at allowing Japan to meet sourcing requirements for new electric-vehicle…

Jack Ma, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. BABA -0.90% ’s billionaire co-founder, has returned to mainland China after…

More electric vehicles will qualify for a $7,500 tax credit under changes revealed Friday by the federal government, a move that follows pressure from auto industry lobbyists to better…

SINGAPORE—A plan by China to restrict exports of key solar manufacturing technology could delay attempts to build up a domestic solar supply chain in the U.S., industry experts say. China’s…

Tesla Inc.’s TSLA 11.00% deep price cuts across its U.S. lineup this month have sparked a backlash from customers, many of whom paid…

The market’s comeback in 2023 has been very bad news for one group: short sellers.Short sellers profit from stock declines by borrowing shares of companies that they believe are overvalued,…

SINGAPORE—China’s top nuclear-weapons research institute has bought sophisticated U.S. computer chips at least a dozen times in the past two and half years, circumventing decades-old…

Cryptocurrency lender Genesis Global Holdco LLC and two of its lending subsidiaries filed for bankruptcy protection late Thursday night in New York, the latest domino to fall after the…

DAVOS, Switzerland— Microsoft Corp. MSFT 0.30% plans to incorporate artificial-intelligence tools like ChatGPT into…

Samsung’s estimated results were far below market forecasts.…