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Customers are continuing to shift to electric vehicles, but industry analysts say the picture is complicated.A rising share of car buyers traded their gas cars in for EVs in April, according to data Edmunds shared with CNBC. In January, 67.1% of buyers purchasing a new EV at dealerships traded in a gas car. By April, that climbed 7%, to 72.1%, according to the auto site. The data also showed that EV loyalty numbers are rising: In January, 26.2% of buyers traded in an older EV for a new EV and 34.3% traded for a used one. Those numbers rose, as…

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White House spokesperson Kush Desai denied that the administration didn’t want to accept Stafford and attacked the Post. “This is absolutely false and another reason why the Washington Post is no longer worth the paper it’s printed on,” Desai wrote in an email. He said the Trump administration’s top concern is ensuring the health and safety of citizens and praised the quality of the German hospital treating Stafford. The US has multiple centers and hospital systems with specialized facilities capable of providing safe, high-quality care for Ebola patients. In the press briefing on Wednesday afternoon, Pillai repeatedly dodged questions about…

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Available for 27 daysFollowing last week’s local elections, it’s clear there’s a huge shift happening when it comes to the voting habits of British Muslims across the country. Why are so many British Muslims moving away from the Labour Party? And are they really all going to the Greens? Presenter Rima Ahmed returned to her hometown of Harehills in Leeds, once a Labour stronghold, just before the local elections to speak to ordinary Muslim voters about what’s important to them. This episode of Currently… was made by Keiligh Baker. The technical editor was James Beard and the editor was Justine…

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Amazon executive chairman Jeff Bezos said a controversial tax strategy used by the wealthy to borrow against assets to lower their income taxes is largely a “myth.””There’s no truth to this ‘buy, borrow, die’ thing,” Bezos told CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin Wednesday in a wide-ranging interview. “I don’t even know where this comes from.”The “buy, borrow, die” strategy refers to the practice of wealthy founders or investors borrowing against their assets and using the loan proceeds as income. Since the loan isn’t considered taxable income, their income stream avoids tax. Thanks to the step-up in basis tax provision, any gain in the…

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CANADA – 2025/08/07: In this photo illustration, the SoftBank Group (Soft Bank) logo is seen displayed on a smartphone screen. (Photo Illustration by Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesShares of SoftBank Group skyrocketed Thursday as blockbuster earnings from Nvidia overnight signaled strong momentum in the artificial intelligence space.SoftBank Group shares, which had declined for five straight sessions, rose 19.8% to add about $35 billion to its market-cap Thursday.The company’s fortunes are closely tied to the AI boom through its stake in Arm Holdings, whose chip designs are used in AI servers and data centers…

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Containers at a shipping terminal in Yokohama, Japan on Oct. 18, 2021. Japan’s trade deficit surged in September as imports overwhelmed export growth.Kiyoshi Ota | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesJapan’s exports climbed 14.8% in April, the fastest pace since January and solidly beating expectations on a surge in semiconductor shipments.The figure was sharply higher than the 9.3% expected from Reuters. Imports increased 9.7% year-on-year, versus an expected 8.3% rise, according to government data. The country’s trade balance narrowed to 301.9 billion yen in April, from 643 billion yen in March. The rise was powered by a surge in semiconductor shipments, which…

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