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Shein wants to move back to China to secure a Hong Kong IPO

The company has struggled to secure a home for its long-standing public ambitions.

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New York looked like a no-go and London was taking too long — now, years into its scrambling efforts to secure a place on the public market, Shein is planning to move its base back to China to nail down an IPO in Hong Kong, per Bloomberg reporting.

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The fast-fashion giant known for ultra-affordable clothes of varying quality moved core operations to Singapore in 2021. Now, company execs are hoping a return to the country where it was founded will help get national regulators on board with its public offering plans. Previously, Shein’s efforts to IPO were met with resistance on both sides of the Atlantic, as US and UK lawmakers raised concerns around forced labor and other issues.

With the de minimis trading exemption sewn shut, American shoppers learned to live without cheap Chinese imports... for a month or two at least.

Now, traffic to Temu’s and Shein’s websites is on the up once again, as the two rivals saw site visits rise in July, data from Similarweb shows.

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Shein’s 85 million figure — the most it’s clocked since at least February 2024 — was slightly outshone by Temu. Indeed, just as it looked like the two might be leveling out in June, desktop and mobile visits to temu.com more than doubled, with some arguing that Temu, owned by PDD Holdings, might already be benefiting from Amazon pulling out of Google Shopping ads last month.

Can Americans live without $1 necklaces, $2 phone cases, and $4 T-shirts? The answer, at least for now, seems to be no — great news for Shein’s hopes that it can finally carve out a place on the stock market.

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Domino’s just announced its first rebrand in 13 years — maybe a new, “doughier” font will help sales pick up

Shaboozey! Domino’s Sans! Hotter colors as a nod to the melty heat of a pizza pulled fresh from the oven!

In a buzzword-laden justification of its rebrand yesterday, Domino’s laid plain its new aesthetic direction, coined the term “Cravemark,” and announced it would be bringing the focus back to its food, having (at least in its executive vice president’s words) become known as “a technology company that happens to sell pizza” over the last decade.

It can’t go any worse than Cracker Barrel’s refresh efforts, at least...

The raft of changes, which will roll out across the US and other international markets in the coming months, includes a new “audio and visual expression” of the brand’s name (throwing a few extra M’s on the boxes and getting country/hip-hop artist Shaboozey to elongate the letter in a jingle); brighter packaging and hotter colors; “more youthful” team uniforms (company-color Salomons and an apron with “pizza is brat” on it, maybe?); and a new “Domino’s Sans” font, which is “thicker and doughier” and has circles and semicircles “in nod to pizza, with lots of personality baked right in!”

Domino’s is down about 2% so far this year.

The raft of changes, which will roll out across the US and other international markets in the coming months, includes a new “audio and visual expression” of the brand’s name (throwing a few extra M’s on the boxes and getting country/hip-hop artist Shaboozey to elongate the letter in a jingle); brighter packaging and hotter colors; “more youthful” team uniforms (company-color Salomons and an apron with “pizza is brat” on it, maybe?); and a new “Domino’s Sans” font, which is “thicker and doughier” and has circles and semicircles “in nod to pizza, with lots of personality baked right in!”

Domino’s is down about 2% so far this year.

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Ferrari sinks after unveiling first electric car; 2030 strategic plan and guidance underwhelms investors after halving its EV target

Ferrari is 14% in the red in premarket trading after unveiling its first electric car, while simultaneously scaling back its electrification plans to focus on its petrol and hybrid lineup until 2030.

In an event at its headquarters in northern Italy, the company lifted the hood on its new, production-ready “Elettrica” model, finally offering a glimpse into the iconic carmaker’s progress on its EV plan, which was announced back in 2022. The Elettrica is due to be delivered from late 2026, per the company’s 2030 strategic plan.

Still, as Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna was keen to emphasize, “The EV is an addition, not a transition,” suggesting that the new electric model will complement, not replace, the company’s existing lineup.

In the carmaker’s 2030 plan, released later in the day, Ferrari disclosed that it aims for a lineup made up of 40% internal combustion engine models, 40% hybrids, and 20% fully electric cars by 2030 — dialing down its 2022 ambitions for electrification, when the targets for EVs and ICE models were flipped.

Though Ferrari has ramped up its hybrid production since 2022, shipments have plateaued in recent quarters.

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Delta Airlines Withdraws 2025 Guidance Citing Tariff Disruptions

Delta climbs after beating on both sales and profit, forecasts a strong end to 2025

It’s been a turbulent ride for Delta this year, but shares are rising in early trading on Thursday.

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After upsetting GOP senators, GM scraps its EV tax credit extension plan

Roughly a week after it was first reported, GM’s plan to extend the now expired $7,500 US federal EV tax credit to customers through a leasing program is no more.

Last week, Republican Senators Bernie Moreno (Ohio) and John Barrasso (Wyoming) wrote a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent urging him to change the IRS rule that they said allowed automakers to game the law that ended the tax credit, “bilking” taxpayers.

Automakers GM and Ford, which each saw juiced-up EV sales ahead of the tax credits expiration, sought to extend the subsidy by using their financial arms to put down payments on electric vehicles already on their dealers’ lots. Those payments would qualify for the credit prior to its expiration, and the automakers would pass the savings along to lessees for several more months.

GM will now instead fund the incentive through the end of October without claiming the tax credit, Reuters reports.

Ford did not respond to a request for comment on whether it will similarly scrap its plans.

Automakers GM and Ford, which each saw juiced-up EV sales ahead of the tax credits expiration, sought to extend the subsidy by using their financial arms to put down payments on electric vehicles already on their dealers’ lots. Those payments would qualify for the credit prior to its expiration, and the automakers would pass the savings along to lessees for several more months.

GM will now instead fund the incentive through the end of October without claiming the tax credit, Reuters reports.

Ford did not respond to a request for comment on whether it will similarly scrap its plans.

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