Oil prices up 3% to 4-month high on US crude stock drop, Russian refinery attacks

Oil prices rose about 3% to a four-month high on Wednesday on a surprise withdrawal in U.S. crude inventories, a bigger-than-expected drop in U.S. gasoline
Exclusive: Samsung to use chip making tech favoured by SK Hynix as AI chip race heats up, sources say

Samsung Electronics plans to use a chip making technology championed by rival SK Hynix, five people said, as the world’s top memory chipmaker seeks to catch
Arm’s shares rise as Wall Street eyes IPO lock-up expiration

Shares of Arm Holdings , the British chip designer backed by Softbank Group gained 2.1% to $129.50 on Tuesday as markets braced for increased trading activity
Global electric car sales in February hurt by China’s New Year celebrations

Global sales of fully electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) rose at a tepid rate of 3% in February versus the same period last year
Intel survived bid to halt millions in sales to China’s Huawei, sources say

Intel has survived an effort to halt hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of chip sales to Huawei, two people familiar with the matter said,
The intergenerational health effects of forced displacement: Japanese American incarceration during WWII

The forcible removal of populations has both immediate and long-run consequences for the affected populations. The economics literature has tended to focus on the labour
How house prices respond to monetary tightening: The role of cyclical conditions

How reactive are house prices to monetary policy shocks? Does their reaction depend on cyclical conditions? And what do historical patterns suggest would be a
Unravelling the drivers of emissions reduction: A deep dive into national characteristics

The EU Emissions Trading System incentivises firm-level innovation away from carbon-intensive technologies through price signalling. This column examines the interplay of such market-based incentives with
Populism and the skill content of globalisation

The rise of populism worldwide is largely seen as a backlash against globalisation. This column contends that, when examining the determinants of populism, the two
Beverage prices surge amid supply shortfalls

Robusta coffee prices surged to their highest point in three decades in February 2024, marking a 4 percent rise from the previous month, driven by supply

