(Reuters) -Saudi Aramco will take a 10% stake in Horse Powertrain, the thermal engines joint venture between Renault and Geely, the Chinese automaker said on Friday. Reuters earlier in the day reported that Aramco was close to buying a 10% stake in Horse Powertrain. The transaction values the joint venture, which supplies gasoline engines, hybrid…
By Tom Hals WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) – Tesla is claiming Elon Musk won his legal battle over his $56 billion pay package because shareholders voted for the compensation, despite a judge rescinding it earlier this year, according to court filing made public on Friday. The company’s filing comes two weeks after Tesla shareholders voted to…
(Reuters) – Nikola said it has delivered a hydrogen fuel cell powered electric semi-truck to Walmart Canada, making it the first major retailer in the country to add it to its fleet. Reuters reported in April Tesla Semi trucks were in short supply for customers, including Walmart and Pepsi, and the companies were turning to…
(Reuters) -Levi Strauss fell short of market expectations for second-quarter revenue on Wednesday and maintained its annual earnings forecast, taking its shares down 11% in extended trading. Apparel makers such as Levi and peer Ralph Lauren have worked to prioritize higher margin products and increase penetration through their direct-to-consumer channels. An inventory glut last year…
By Chuck Mikolajczak and Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors are gearing up for the final reconstitution of the benchmark indexes by FTSE Russell on Friday, with the furious rally in artificial intelligence (AI) related stocks over the past year expected to leave an outsized imprint on their final shape. The Russell Reconstitution, an…
(Reuters) -FedEx forecast fiscal 2025 profit above analysts’ estimates on Tuesday, anticipating that the cost reductions planned for the year would deliver margin gains even as revenue remains challenged by lackluster demand for parcel shipping. Shares of FedEx were up 15.3% at $295.49 in extended trading after the delivery company targeted fiscal 2025 earnings of…
By Isabelle Yr Carlsson and Maggie Fick COPENHAGEN/LONDON (Reuters) – Obesity drug-maker Novo Nordisk will spend $4.1 billion to build a U.S. facility to fill injection pens for its hugely popular weight-loss treatment Wegovy and diabetes drug Ozempic, it said on Monday. Construction of the plant at Novo’s existing main U.S. manufacturing site in Clayton,…
By David Ljunggren and Ismail Shakil OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada is considering whether to impose import tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles and will seek the public’s opinion about the idea, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Monday. Freeland said the domestic auto sector faced unfair competition from what she called China’s “state-directed policy of overcapacity,”…
By Tom Sims and Alexander Hübner FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Germany has fined Citigroup nearly 13 million euros ($13.94 million) for lapses in its trading system controls, the nation’s bank regulator said on Thursday, as its consumer protection division imposed its largest penalty ever. It is related to a mishap in 2022 involving $1.4 billion in mistaken…
By Davide Barbuscia and Matt Tracy NEW YORK (Reuters) – The spreads between U.S. investment-grade corporate bond yields and U.S. Treasuries have surged to their highest in over three months, in a sign of risk aversion due to political uncertainty in France and as U.S. government bonds rallied. Spreads indicate the premium investors demand to…
