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En stor förklaring till återhämtningen på tisdagen var att flera indextunga aktier som Nvidia, Alphabet, Microsoft och Apple stängde på plus. https://www.di.se/live/breda-uppgangar-kompenserade-ai-raset-i-usa/ China river back from the brink. Yangtze, running 6,300km from the Tibetan plateau to Shanghai. The heart of the Yangtze’s rescue package was a ten-year commercial fishing ban. Xi Jinping, China’s supreme leader, personally champions it, and in recent years local officials’ promotion prospects have been tied to environmental metrics. Officials closed or relocated thousands of chemical factories near its banks. They planted forests on its upper reaches to bind the soil together, so less slipped into the water. Ever since the 1950s the government has had a love of dams, to control floods and generate hydroelectricity. A dozen gigantic ones have been built on the Yangtze, including the Three Gorges Dam, the world’s largest, as well as thousands of smaller ones elsewhere in the ...