Apple (NasdaqGS:AAPL) is adding Bosch, TDK, Cirrus Logic, and Qnity Electronics to its American Manufacturing Program, expanding U.S. production of advanced components. The company also plans to open Siri to outside AI assistants in iOS 27, including options to integrate services such as Google Gemini and Anthropic Claude. These announcements point to changes in Apple’s supply chain footprint and ...
Apple (NasdaqGS:AAPL) is adding Bosch, TDK, Cirrus Logic, and Qnity Electronics to its American Manufacturing Program, expanding U.S. production of advanced components. The company also plans to open Siri to outside AI assistants in iOS 27, including options to integrate services such as Google Gemini and Anthropic Claude. These announcements point to changes in Apple’s supply chain footprint and how its core voice assistant may work with competing AI platforms. For investors watching...
USA Rare Earth Inc. will start commercial shipments of magnets from April, adding to a handful of projects that aim to curb America’s reliance on China for the vital industrial components. The company’s first rare-earth magnet production line — in Stillwater, Oklahoma — has been commissioned and should reach its full capacity of 600 tons per year by the end of December, according to a statement . ...
USA Rare Earth Inc. will start commercial shipments of magnets from April, adding to a handful of projects that aim to curb America’s reliance on China for the vital industrial components. The company’s first rare-earth magnet production line — in Stillwater, Oklahoma — has been commissioned and should reach its full capacity of 600 tons per year by the end of December, according to a statement . In January, USA Rare Earth signed a non-binding deal for $1.6 billion in funding from the Department of Commerce to help build a mine that would feed its magnet production. Rare-earth magnets are essential in high-tech applications from cars to wind turbines and missiles. The tiny but powerful components gained sudden geopolitical significance a year ago, when Beijing tightened supplies to strong-arm President Donald Trump into signing a trade truce. Read More: Rare Earths Producers Look to US-Led Boom to Blunt China’s Power USA Rare Earth is among a number of firms already making magnets in the US, albeit at very low volumes compared with China. Those include the Pentagon-backed MP Materials Corp. , which runs the country’s sole rare earths mine, as well as German group Vacuumschmelze GmbH and Texas-based Noveon Magnetics Inc. Creating a robust output outside China is likely to take many years, as magnet plants are just the end-point of a complex supply chain dominated by Beijing at every step. USA Rare Earth bought UK firm Less Common Metals last year to gain access to critical “heavy” rare earths, and wants its Round Top mine in Texas to start up in 2028. Capacity at the Oklahoma magnet plant should reach 1,200 tons a year by 2027, USA Rare Earth said.
UK retail sales declined for the first time since November, with consumers reining in their spending even before the Iran war clouded Britain’s economic outlook. The total volume of goods sold online and in stores fell 0.4% in February, according to the Office for National Statistics , reversing some of the gains made the previous month when retail sales surged by a revised 2%. It was the first dr...
UK retail sales declined for the first time since November, with consumers reining in their spending even before the Iran war clouded Britain’s economic outlook. The total volume of goods sold online and in stores fell 0.4% in February, according to the Office for National Statistics , reversing some of the gains made the previous month when retail sales surged by a revised 2%. It was the first drop in three months but not as bad as the 0.7% decline expected by economists. The report suggests Britain’s shops entered a period of economic turbulence on a weak footing. Economists have already cut growth forecasts amid the Middle East conflict, with the Bank of England expecting an immediate impact of the petrol price shock on UK inflation. Britons are also facing an increase in electricity and gas bills when the energy price cap resets in the summer. Read More: UK Faces Worst Hit From War Among Major Economies, OECD Warns Households are saving more and postponing big ticket purchases to soften the blow of an energy price shock, a separate GfK survey published Friday showed. Fears of surging inflation pushed down sentiment to the lowest level under Prime Minister Keir Starmer ’s Labour government in March, according to a British Retail Consortium survey.