Eddie Spence

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  • TOPSHOT – A car is burning on the Normandie provincial road, outside Noumea on May 16, 2024, amid protests linked to a debate on a constitutional bill aimed at enlarging the electorate for upcoming elections of the overseas French territory of New Caledonia. France deployed troops to New Caledonia’s ports and international airport, banned TikTok and imposed a state of emergency on May 16 after three nights of clashes that have left four dead and hundreds wounded. Pro-independence, largely indigenous protests against a French plan to impose new voting rules on its Pacific archipelago have spiralled into the deadliest violence since the 1980s, with a police officer among several killed by gunfire. (Photo by Delphine Mayeur / AFP) (Photo by DELPHINE MAYEUR/AFP via Getty Images)Tech

    France admits it’s lost control of parts of New Caledonia, the world’s third-largest producer of critical EV metal nickel

    By Ben Westcott, Eddie Spence, and others
  • Wang Chuanfu, chairman and chief executive officer of BYD Co., speaks during a news conference in Hong Kong, China, on Wednesday, March 29, 2023. BYD’s profit more than quintupled last year after the Chinese automaker sold a record number of electric vehicles and stepped up its battle with Tesla Inc. for market share. Photographer: Bertha Wang/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    Tesla rival BYD and other battery giants are betting on sodium for EVs and energy storage—and challenging the dominance of lithium-ion

    By Eddie Spence, Annie Lee, and others
  • Gregg Smith, former precious-metals trader for JPMorgan Chase & Co., departs from federal court in Chicago, Illinois, US, on Friday, July 8, 2022. Michael Nowak, former head of precious metals trading for JPMorgan Chase & Co., and two of his former colleagues face criminal charges for thousands of so-called spoofing trades, which prosecutors say were used for years to generate illicit gains for JPMorgan and its top clients. Photographer: Cheney Orr/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    Former JPMorgan trader reveals how his mentor taught him to place and cancel bogus trades to manipulate markets

    By Eddie Spence and Bloomberg
  • Gold jewelry on display in a shop window in the Gold Souk in the Deira district of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. While silvers jump to an eight-year high on Feb. 1 benefited many long-standing bulls on Wall Street, shop owners thousands of miles away in Dubais Gold Souk were far less euphoric. Photographer: Christopher Pike/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    Gold is rallying amid signs that inflation is accelerating

    By Eddie Spence and Bloomberg
  • LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – 2019/01/29: A periodic table is seen as it will celebrate its 150 years in March 2019. On 6 March 1869 Russian scientist, Dmitri Mendeleev arranged the chemical elements into a graphical collection, know as the Periodic table where the elements are listed in an order of their atomic number. (Photo by Dinendra Haria/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)Finance

    This extremely rare metal is outperforming all commodities—and Bitcoin, too

    By Eddie Spence and Bloomberg
  • A pedestrian wearing a face mask or covering due to the COVID-19 pandemic, walks past Red Telephone boxes in London on December 19, 2020. – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Saturday announced a “stay at home” order for London and southeast England to slow a new coronavirus strain that is significantly more infectious. The new strain of the virus “does appear to be passed on significantly more easily,” Johnson said at a televised briefing. (Photo by Tolga Akmen / AFP) (Photo by TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images)Health

    Boris Johnson imposes an emergency London lockdown to fight a new COVID-19 strain

    By Tim Ross, Eddie Spence, and others
  • A Deliveroo food courier uses his bicycle as he works in central London on September 11, 2019. (Photo by Tolga AKMEN / AFP) (Photo credit should read TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images)International

    Why Amazon’s Move Into Food Delivery Could Get Tripped Up by Facebook’s WhatsApp Buy

    By Eddie Spence and Bloomberg