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  • Electric vehicle sales set for slowest growth since pandemic – Financial Times

    Electric vehicle sales set for slowest growth since pandemic – Financial Times

    1. Electric vehicle sales set for slowest growth since pandemic  Financial Times
    2. EV Makers Could Struggle in 2026, but Jeff Bezos Might Have a Great 2027  Gizmodo
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  • Forget Cloud Dancer – 2026 is the year of the rainbow bathroom

    Forget Cloud Dancer – 2026 is the year of the rainbow bathroom

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    Avocado is a faddy fruit. Before being smashed onto every piece of toast, it inspired an era of buttery-green bathroom suites that a generation of boomers have since tried to forget. The trend fell out of favour in the 1990s as homeowners decisively returned to white, but colour has been creeping back and sinks are proving a popular fixture for a whole range of shades. 

    The powder room in Marta Ferri’s home featuring a Bleu Provence basin and de Gournay handpainted Jardin Chinois wallpaper

    “It’s wonderful to see colour re-emerging,” says Sophie Rowell, director and founder of Côte de Folk, who recently mounted a blue Burlington cloakroom basin onto Robert Kime’s Sunburst Green wallpaper in a London home. “It’s nostalgic, yes, but today’s take feels more intentional and sophisticated, and we’re seeing it used to create personality and warmth without overpowering the space,” she says. This is partly thanks to clever colour pairings. In the powder room of her Varese home, Italian fashion designer Marta Ferri installed a tangerine sink to match the orange handpainted de Gournay wallpaper. Meanwhile at Villa Colucci, a 19th-century palazzo available to rent in Puglia, vibrant contrasts include a custom blue Sbordoni basin set against green and yellow walls.

    Studio Duggan custom enamelled lava stone basin for a London home
    Studio Duggan custom enamelled lava stone basin for a London home © Dean Herne
    Custom-designed basins finished in a microcement coloured render for a Tamsin Johnson project in Boreen Point, Australia
    Custom-designed basins finished in a microcement coloured render for a Tamsin Johnson project in Boreen Point, Australia © Anson Smart

    The enthusiasm for colour is being driven by a younger customer base. “We are now experiencing an ever-increasing shift towards much younger clients,” says Sam Powell, founder of The Bold Bathroom Company, which has supplied retro fittings for films including Paddington and Avengers: Age of Ultron. “This is the first time they’ve had the pleasure of seeing anything other than plain white bathrooms, and they love it.” Also meeting this demand is The Water Monopoly, which first introduced pastel tones with its Rockwell range in 2015. “It was a slow start,” says the brand’s director Justin Homewood. “Only brave designers were using the colours at first. But in early 2018 it really took off and we’re now seeing people mixing colours too.” The Water Monopoly’s most popular hue is willow green, followed by powder blue and sherbet yellow – a soft shade used by designer Pernille Lind for a private residence in Copenhagen, and Sara Garza of Punch World Studio for her own timber-clad bathroom in Dallas. 

    The Water Monopoly sink in a bathroom by Finch Studio
    The Water Monopoly sink in a bathroom by Finch Studio © Finch Studio

    Poland-based Finch Studio packs a punch with The Water Monopoly’s purple sink, deployed as an unexpected visual anchor. “In my work, basins are never just functional objects – I treat them like sculptures, capable of setting the tone for the entire room,” says founder Magdalena Kwoczka. “Clients are intrigued by the idea of making one striking element the focal point, and a sink is a perfect candidate: it has a small surface area, yet completely transforms the mood – richer colours feel dramatic and immersive, while pastels can bring a whimsical touch.”

    Pyrolave vanity in a bespoke green for Cowley Manor Experimental in Cheltenham
    Pyrolave vanity in a bespoke green for Cowley Manor Experimental in Cheltenham, by Dorothee Meilichzon of Chzon © Patrick Locqueneux/Pyrolave Architecture
    Kast Kern basin, £1,400
    Kast Kern basin, £1,400

    Colour is not limited to ceramic. Concrete creates a thoroughly modern look, with manufacturers such as Kast and US maker Concretti Designs producing basins in all shapes and shades. For something glossier, lava stone clads entire counters and sinks for a sleek, streamlined finish. “Customers particularly like it for its technical performance – it won’t fade, delaminate or be affected by chemicals,” says Geoff Leach, a representative of Pyrolave, which produces enamelled Volvic lava stone extracted from quarries in the Auvergne, France. From the thousands of Pyrolave colours to choose from, Studio Duggan picked a golden yellow for a curved custom basin at a London house, while designer Dorothée Meilichzon opted for rich reds and olive for the basins at the Cowley Manor Experimental hotel in the Cotswolds. “When I started to work on hotels in 2012, most were covered in white marble, which I found super-boring,” she says. “Lava is the best way to introduce colour while using a high-quality material.” 

    The Bold Bathroom Company children’s bathroom at the home of Charlotte and Angus Buchanan of Buchanan Studio
    The Bold Bathroom Company children’s bathroom at the home of Charlotte and Angus Buchanan of Buchanan Studio © Alicia Waite
    Sara Garza’s Dallas bathroom
    Sara Garza’s Dallas bathroom

    The rainbow of tones on offer means bathrooms no longer need resemble globs of guacamole to be fun. “Enough time has passed that we can embrace colour again,” concludes Rowell. “And not as a fleeting trend, but as a design statement that feels both fresh and enduring.” 

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  • Tesla loses ground to China, but the battery war isn’t over

    Tesla loses ground to China, but the battery war isn’t over

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    Tesla is no longer the world’s foremost electric vehicle maker — a decline in last-year’s sales, disclosed on Friday, has left it second fiddle to China’s BYD. But cars aren’t the only territory Elon Musk’s company is attempting to stake out. For big batteries, Tesla may be able to put up a stronger fight.

    Chinese battery makers have one major advantage: their products get cheaper every year. That’s helped them lap competitors in supplying power sources for electric vehicles: the country produces 75 per cent of the world’s lithium-ion batteries. Then there are the huge rechargeable batteries used by electricity grids. Chinese giants such as CATL have also made inroads there, but their position is not unassailable.

    Energy storage systems are becoming a critical part of renewable power rollouts as solar and wind adoption grows. They store electricity when there is excess power on sunny or windy days, and grids increasingly depend on such batteries to stabilise frequency.

    These systems used to be a niche business for global battery makers, which derived their fattest margins from making vehicles. But utilities and data centres have been deploying energy storage as core infrastructure. CATL, BYD and Eve Energy have been the biggest beneficiaries of this shift, as have system integrators such as Sungrow and Huawei.

    CATL now accounts for nearly 40 per cent of the global market. In Europe, Chinese groups grew their share particularly fast in 2024, up two-thirds year over year, according to Wood Mackenzie data. Sungrow is leading the expansion, more than doubling its market share to 21 per cent.

    Yet the US, the biggest customer base after China by installed capacity, has been an exception. Tesla dominates there with a 39 per cent share, despite Chinese rivals having a significant pricing advantage.

    The reason for this American exceptionalism is that for grids, hardware is not the full package. Tesla sells a product that bundles kit, software, grid integration and long-term service into a single offering. Grid operators can’t take chances: they are providers of critical infrastructure and have lifespans of around 20 years. That makes warranties and accountability more important than incremental differences in battery cell costs.

    Europe’s current openness to Chinese batteries may prove temporary for the same reasons. As storage projects grow in scale and batteries become more embedded, prices may become less important than integration capabilities and the provider’s record. Chinese makers will no doubt focus on warranties and integration too, but political risk works against them.

    For now, Chinese makers still have a significant chance to gain more ground. They are improving technology rapidly and benefit from scale. But where electric car buyers seem increasingly willing to go Chinese, unhappily for Tesla, the giant battery market may follow a different path.

    june.yoon@ft.com

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  • Gold tipped to extend record-breaking rally in 2026

    Gold tipped to extend record-breaking rally in 2026

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    The gold price is set to extend its historic rally to hit fresh highs in 2026, although analysts expect the metal’s advance to slow after a year of stunning gains, according to a Financial Times survey.

    The price of bullion, which soared 64 per cent in 2025, will rise by nearly 7 per cent to reach $4,610 per troy ounce by the end of this year, according to the average forecast of 11 analysts.

    Many of the factors behind bullion’s blistering rally in 2025 are expected to remain intact this year, said analysts, including buying by emerging market central banks and investor demand for haven assets.

    The most bullish prediction was for $5,400 per troy ounce — implying a gain of 25 per cent — from Nicky Shiels of refinery MKS Pamp, who said other analysts’ estimates had been “persistently too timid” in recent years.

    “We are only in the early innings of the debasement cycle,” she said, a reference to how some investors are shifting assets into gold as a hedge against the US dollar, which weakened sharply last year.

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    Gold hit a record high of just under $4,550 per troy ounce in intraday trading on Dec 26, propelled in part by the US blockade of Venezuela. It has since fallen back slightly, amid a volatile end to year for precious metal prices.

    With many analysts’ attributing gold’s rise to investor flows, Lina Thomas of Goldman Sachs said there was “significant upside” to her forecast of $4,900 for the end of the year “in a scenario where there’s additional investor diversification”.

    She added that investors’ allocations to gold remained low and estimated that for every 0.01 percentage point by which US investors increase their portfolios’ allocation to bullion, the price would rise by around 1.4 per cent.

    Investors and analysts largely failed to foresee the ferocity of last year’s rally, on average predicting a price of $2,795 by the end of 2025, compared with the $4,314 at which it closed the year. The survey reveals a large divergence between the most bearish and most bullish calls, with $1,900 separating the highest and lowest forecasts.

    The gold price is becoming “harder to predict”, said Peter Taylor, head of commodity strategy at Macquarie Group, because it has been driven largely by investor sentiment and has become disconnected from supply and demand fundamentals.

    Taylor, whose forecast of $4,200 for the fourth quarter of 2026 — implying a small fall over the course of the year — is among the most bearish, added he expects “we will see more macro news stability.”

    Other bullish analysts point to central bank buying as a key booster for prices. Natasha Kaneva of JPMorgan expects central bank purchases of around 755 tonnes during 2026. Although slightly lower than previous years, that could still push prices towards $6,000 by 2028, she said.

    At the same time, a number of analysts are taking the view that gold could fall this year.

    The most bearish forecast comes from Rhona O’Connell at StoneX, who said prices could drop to $3,500 in a market that is becoming “overcrowded”.

    “The majority of the tailwinds for the price have already been taken on board,” said O’Connell. “My feeling is that, barring a black swan event, there probably is not another wave of this investment to come.”

    She highlighted the upcoming court decision on Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook, who is contesting efforts by President Donald Trump to fire her, as a potential driver of the price in the near term. A ruling in favour of Cook, which would be viewed as supportive of the central bank’s independence, could weigh on gold, she said.

    Natixis’s Bernard Dahdah pointed to bearish factors such as declining jewellery demand and the eventual end of the Fed’s rate cutting cycle, which is expected next year. He forecasts gold prices will average $4,200 during the fourth quarter of this year.

    “At current price levels, we are already seeing signs of demand destruction within the jewellery sector, and central bank demand has also slowed down,” he said. “We think 2026 will be a year of price consolidation.”

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  • Offshore wind power firms file injunctions against Trump’s lease pause

    Offshore wind power firms file injunctions against Trump’s lease pause

    Two Scandinavian offshore wind power firms have asked a US court for a preliminary injunction against US President Donald Trump’s order to pause their projects in the United States.

    The Trump administration announced late last month a pause on the leases for five offshore wind projects under construction in the United States, citing national security risks.

    One of the companies, Danish energy giant Orsted, has been building offshore wind facilities off the US East Coast through a joint venture firm, Revolution Wind.

    Revolution Wind argues the lease suspension order violates applicable law and that a continuation of the order would substantially harm the project.

    Orsted says the project is about 87 percent complete and ready to supply power to more than 350,000 households this year.

    The Trump administration argues the movement of massive turbine blades causes radar interference, but Revolution Wind says it secured all required federal and state permits in 2023, following extensive reviews.

    Another firm, Norwegian energy giant Equinor, has been implementing the Empire Wind Project through its US subsidiary. It is seeking a preliminary injunction to allow construction to continue while the litigation proceeds.

    Trump’s strict regulation of offshore wind projects is a reversal of the previous administration’s energy and climate change policies.

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  • Gold price in Pakistan for today, January 03, 2025 – Profit by Pakistan

    1. Gold price in Pakistan for today, January 03, 2025  Profit by Pakistan
    2. Gold per tola gains Rs5,700 in Pakistan  Business Recorder
    3. Gold rebounds strongly as global and local prices surge on Friday  The Nation (Pakistan )
    4. Gold Prices Rise for the First Time in 2026  ProPakistani
    5. Gold prices drop for third consecutive day  Daily Times

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  • Trump blocks chips deal, cites security, China-related concerns – Reuters

    1. Trump blocks chips deal, cites security, China-related concerns  Reuters
    2. Trump orders Chinese-controlled firm to unwind chip asset deal, citing national security risks  CNBC
    3. US’ divestment order on HieFo’s acquisition of Emcore assets highlights anxiety, harms its innovation: expert  Global Times
    4. The silicon toll: Trump’s transactional strategy to rewire the global chip war  Dailynewsegypt
    5. Trump orders Chinese-owned firm to unwind chip asset deal, citing national security risks  MSN

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