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Royal Enfield Motorcycles Dodged US Tariffs With Early Shipments Eicher Motors, the owner of #RoyalEnfield, frontloaded exports of nearly 9,000 motorcycles to the US before President Donald #Trump announced a 25% duty on automobile and automotive parts imports. When demand for cars suffers, and the US is likely to see that play out as prices rise due to tariffs, customers can also be seen shifting to purchasing motorcycles. Eicher is in the sweet spot of premium bikes with relatively accessible pricing that can benefit from this. Read: https://lnkd.in/gnFKFKKQ Bloomberg News

“The Sergey Brins of the world came as students and did wonders for the US economy." Raghuram Rajan, former RBI governor, warns of long-term risks to the US if politics erodes the pipeline of international students to American universities. bloom.bg/3HfpKqr

Elon Musk expressed dissatisfaction with President Donald Trump’s giant tax bill, saying it undercut his efforts to slash government spending.

Germany plans to introduce legislation to abolish a fast-track option that allows well-integrated migrants to naturalize after three years in the country. The move is part of a wider effort by new conservative leader Friedrich Merz to make Europe’s largest economy less attractive to foreigners.

On today’s Big Take podcast: Zuckerberg has steered Meta away from policies that enraged President Trump. What does he have to show for it?

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BANGKOK (AP) — Thai and Cambodian soldiers briefly fired at each other in their disputed border area Wednesday, the Thai and Cambodian armies said.

Former Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan warned about the long-term risks to the US economy if politics eroded the pipeline of international students to American universities

My take from Singapore: In the US-China race to dominate the world with their own AI technologies, Singapore's Sea-Lion AI model stands out in its effort to build small, custom, culturally-aligned systems that can be adapted by businesses in 11 countries in Southeast Asia https://lnkd.in/g9TeMEcG #AI Leslie Teo