Manufacturing

Apple, Samsung, BMW, Ford, Honda say they will either pause production or predict falling sales due to chip shortfall.

Rapidly rising producer prices, driven by higher energy costs, raise concerns of accelerating global inflation.

Measures of new orders, production and hiring all jumped, and more firms reported optimistic outlooks about the future.

Is the West’s growing appetite for cobalt causing birth defects in the Democratic Republic of Congo?

Citing human rights concerns, the world’s second-largest clothing retailer said it would not use cotton from Xinjiang.

Intel plans to build two factories in Arizona in challenge to Taiwanese, South Korean advanced chip-making giants.

UK plans to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 while boosting jobs and repairing economic damage due to COVID-19.

The Taiwanese company’s chairman said Foxconn will make the decision between Wisconsin and Mexico later this year.

The finance ministry said GDP data reflects a V-shaped recovery but also warned that India is not yet past the pandemic.

With an early bet on manufacturing in India, Sunil Vachani’s Dixon Technologies is now valued at $2.5bn.

The goods-and-services trade gap widened to $678.7bn in 2020 from $576.9bn in 2019, the US Department of Commerce said.

The order aims to use $600bn the federal government spends on procurement to boost domestic factories, officials said.

Verdict sidelines Jay Y Lee from key decisions at world’s biggest electronics firm in a time of global uncertainties.

The move is part of its $11bn global restructuring and will affect 5,000 employees, mostly in Brazil.