Today
Honda reports higher profits as it ends merger talks with Nissan
The carmakers finalised their decision to abandon negotiations on a $US58 billion combination.
- 14 mins ago
- Harry Demsey
Chemist Warehouse scores $34b pay day in ASX debut
The founders were on hand as the retailer made its sharemarket debut on Thursday via Sigma, with plans to expand in Australia and globally.
- Michael Smith
Another spy thriller, you say? This one is different
Featuring Keira Knightley in her long-awaited streaming debut, Black Doves turns the cloak-and-dagger genre on its head – and then blows it off.
- Terry Pontikos
This Month
Dozens of PwC China partners step aside after audit ban
The disclosure suggests the big four firm has lost state-owned and finance sector clients.
- Cheng Leng, Chan Ho-him and Kaye Wiggins
- Opinion
- Trump diplomacy
No guarantees for Trump’s unlikely tariff buddy
A relieved Anthony Albanese managed to persuade the president to at least consider exempting Australia from the 25 per cent tariffs on US steel and aluminium imports. Can that reprieve last?
- Jennifer Hewett
Breville expands into China as it basks in the glow of coffee machines
The small appliance manufacturer has doubled sales in five years because of its popular high-end coffee machines. Now it is hoping to land Chinese consumers.
- Updated
- Carrie LaFrenz
- Analysis
- Trade wars
Why China is to blame for Trump’s metals tariffs
Existing American taxes already restrict steel and aluminium shipments from the Asian nation, which is now flooding other markets with its exports instead.
- Updated
- Keith Bradsher
- Opinion
- Trump's America
Trump lumps allies in with enemies in tariff chaos
US tariffs on steel and aluminium look likely to embroil Australia. What’s an under-pressure Anthony Albanese to do when a president doesn’t care about impact on allies?
- Jennifer Hewett
China’s stunning new campaign to turn the world against Taiwan
Seventy countries have recently backed “all Chinese efforts” to take the island. They adopted that new wording in the past 18 months, after a Chinese diplomatic offensive across the global south.
- The Economist
Trump’s ambition, China’s DeepSeek overshadow Paris AI summit
The event aims to address how to harness the potential of artificial intelligence so that it benefits everyone, while containing the technology’s myriad risks.
- Sylvie Corbett and Kelvin Chan
How the ASX is exposed to Trump’s trade war
Although the local technology sector has the largest revenue exposure to North America, strategists are more concerned about the heavyweight mining sector.
- Updated
- Alex Gluyas
- Opinion
- Technology & democracy
DeepSeek is a sign of China’s structural shift, not decline
Contrary to the narrative that China’s private sector has been squeezed into irrelevance, major developments in new industries are being led by young entrepreneurs.
- Geoff Raby
What to know about Canada’s role in the fentanyl crisis
Fentanyl is just as big a public health threat in Canada, where on some days more Canadians than Americans die of opioid overdoses, officials say.
- Vjosa Isai
New US bill seeks to ban DeepSeek app on government devices
The two sponsors, one a Republican and the other a Democrat, cite concern that the chatbot’s code is linked to China’s Communist Party.
- Billy House
McKinsey partners mull China pullout in Trump era
The consulting giant is worried that doing business in China may not be worth the risk.
- Ambereen Choudhury and Chanyaporn Chanjaroen
DeepSeek drama: what the Chinese start-up means for AI and markets
This week on The Fin podcast, Jonathan Shapiro and Paul Smith on DeepSeek’s breakthrough, what it means for US tech stocks and why Australia has banned its use on government devices.
Way beyond Sputnik: China’s AI drive just the tip of the iceberg
America’s mass manufacturing revolution more than a century ago – embodied in the Ford Model T – changed everything. China is doing the same now.
- Frank Yuan
Trump’s hardliners seize control in 72 hours of trade chaos
The US president’s brinkmanship with Canada and Mexico shows he and his new economics team are willing to take risks to get his way on the economy.
- Aime Williams, James Politi and Michael Stott
China stocks suffer brutal reversal as traders return from holiday
China’s sharemarket erased a near 1 per cent opening gain as traders returned from a week-long holiday to simmering tensions with the US.
- Alex Gluyas
Call to extend DeepSeek ban beyond government devices
Cybersecurity analysts say critical infrastructure providers should also be ordered not to use the Chinese-developed artificial intelligence platform.
- Andrew Tillett