AGP Executive Report
Last update: 4 hours agoTrade and Investment: Indonesia and Egypt are pushing for a new economic partnership agreement and joint investment fund. Their trade reached $2.38 billion in 2025. Business Costs: Japan recorded 240 bankruptcies linked to labor shortages in the first half of its fiscal year. More than half involved rising personnel costs, squeezing small firms. AI Infrastructure: Data-center growth is running into power-grid, cooling and network limits, raising costs and slowing expansion. Biotech Investment: Merck is leading a $13 million funding round for Christchurch start-up Precision Chroma, which plans to build a manufacturing plant and nearly triple its staff. European Trade: China and the EU say talks on trade and investment helped keep tensions from escalating, with discussions covering export controls, tariffs and electric-vehicle trade.
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