Shares of Chinese movie and cinema firms took a steep tumble following the National Day holiday, with an industry index down 12% over the seven trading days after the weeklong break. The sector finally showed signs of stabilization on Monday, when the index gained 2.2%. Driving the rout was a lackluster box office performance during

NioCorp CEO Mark Smith told Mornings with Maria the Pentagon’s $10M grant will boost Nebraska’s rare earth project as the U.S. races to rebuild supply chains vital for security and the economy. President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Monday signed an agreement on rare earths and critical minerals as the two allies

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It’s been a volatile start to the week. A tense Trump-Zelenskyy meeting has shifted the tone on Ukraine peace talks, Amazon’s AWS outage broke parts of the internet, Apple is edging toward a record $4T valuation on iPhone strength, and China’s economy just posted its slowest growth in a year amid renewed trade tensions. Here’s

“Australia is really, really going to be helpful in the effort to take the global economy and make it less risky, less exposed to the kind of rare earth extortion that we’re seeing from the Chinese,” Kevin Hassett, the director of the White House’s National Economic Council, told reporters on Monday morning ahead of Trump’s