• Apr 16, 2025

US crude stocks rise despite large increase in exports, EIA data shows

U.S. crude stocks rose last week despite a major increase in exports, while fuel inventories fell, the Energy Information Administration said on Wednesday. Crude inventories rose by 515,000 barrels to 442.9 million barrels in the week ended April 11, the EIA said, compared with analysts' expectations in a Reuters poll for a 507,000-barrel rise. Meanwhile, crude exports rose 1.8 million barrels per day to 5.1 million bpd, the highest in about a year, the EIA data showed.

  • Apr 16, 2025

Trump’s World Liberty Signs Crypto Deal With DWF Labs

(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump’s crypto project World Liberty Financial has signed a new partner: A market maker that has been accused in press reports of manipulative trading activity.Most Read from BloombergHow Did This Suburb Figure Out Mass Transit?Trump Signs Executive Orders on Federal Purchasing, Office SpaceWhy the Best Bike Lanes Always Get BlamedLA County Floats Leaner Budget Burdened by Fire and Legal CostsCrypto trading house DWF Labs bought $25 million worth of World Liberty’

  • Apr 16, 2025

Tech giants Tencent and Douyin to help China's exporters pivot to domestic market

Chinese tech giants Tencent and Douyin, TikTok's sister app in China, have in the past two days launched programs to help Chinese exporters sell their goods domestically, amid an escalating U.S.-China trade war. Tencent said on Thursday its program aimed to create 100 billion yuan ($13.7 billion) in sales for China's beleaguered export-dependent firms by helping them set up domestic-facing operations, as well as tap Southeast Asian markets. Tencent and Douyin, which operate large e-commerce platforms, are the latest Chinese conglomerates to announce measures to help the country's exporters, which have been frozen out of the U.S. market as a result of high tariffs imposed by the Trump administration on all Chinese imported goods.