By Hannah Lang (Reuters) – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s crypto task force held its first public meeting with experts on Friday, focusing on how securities laws might apply to digital assets as the Trump administration looks to overhaul cryptocurrency regulations. Among the participants of the roundtable were John Reed Stark, former chief of…
By Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali and Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Billionaire Elon Musk held a meeting for more than an hour at the Pentagon on Friday morning as the close ally of President Donald Trump called for the prosecutions of any Pentagon officials leaking false information about his visit. Musk, who is making sweeping cuts…
By Nora Eckert and Kalea Hall DETROIT (Reuters) -Jeep-maker Stellantis is offering a new round of buyouts for some of its factory workers as the automaker looks to cut costs following a difficult 2024. The automaker on Friday confirmed that it is offering voluntary buyouts to some workers at facilities in Detroit, Ohio and Illinois….
(Reuters) -StubHub’s 2024 revenue surged 29.5%, the online ticketing marketplace reported on Friday in its paperwork for its New York initial public offering. A handful of companies are moving ahead with stock market listings despite volatility in recent weeks due to uncertainty around U.S. trade policy. Nvidia-backed startup CoreWeave and Swedish fintech Klarna are among…
By Sarita Chaganti Singh and Shivangi Acharya NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has decided to let lapse a $23 billion program to incentivize domestic manufacturing, just four years after it launched the effort to woo firms away from China, according to four government officials. The scheme will not be expanded…
By Nell Mackenzie and Naomi Rovnick LONDON (Reuters) -Hedge funds have crowded into debt-fuelled bets on UK government bonds, increasing the potential for instability in the gilts market, a benchmark for borrowing costs in Britain including mortgages, investors and hedge fund sources say. Bank of England chief Andrew Bailey said in February that non-bank institutions…
By Shadia Nasralla (Reuters) – BP has agreed to sell a stake in a firm invested in the TANAP gas pipeline linking Azerbaijan and Turkey for $1 billion to Apollo Global Management, the two firms said on Friday. CEO Murray Auchincloss is spearheading a $20 billion disposal programme through 2027 as BP looks to cut…
PARIS (Reuters) – Pasqal, a fast-growing French quantum computer start-up company, announced on Friday a partnership with chip giant Nvidia whereby Pasqal’s customers would gain access to more tools to develop quantum applications. Pasqal said it would connect its quantum computing units and cloud platform onto NVIDIA’s open-source platform called CUDA-Q. “Our collaboration with NVIDIA…
(Reuters) -Micron Technology forecast third-quarter revenue and posted second-quarter revenue above Wall Street estimates on Thursday, signaling strong demand for its high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips used by the AI industry. The company’s shares rose nearly 5% in after-hours trading, following a 9% increase earlier this month on investor optimism that Micron would benefit from artificial…
(Reuters) – FedEx Corp lowered its full-year revenue and profit forecast on Thursday, as the parcel delivery firm seeks new business after its contract with its largest customer, the United States Postal Service, ended last year. The company expects its full-year revenue to be flat to slightly down year over year, compared to the prior…
