(Reuters) – Southwest Airlines’ shares rose about 7% in premarket trade on Monday after the Wall Street Journal reported that activist investor Elliott Investment Management had built a nearly $2 billion stake in the U.S. carrier. According to the Journal’s report on Sunday, Elliott is one of Southwest’s largest investors and plans to push for…
(Reuters) – Global equity funds had their biggest weekly inflows in more than three months in the seven days to June 26, driven by expectations of moderating U.S. inflation levels that could lead the Federal Reserve to announce interest rate cuts. Investors purchased global equity funds worth a net $21.65 billion during the week, the…
PARIS (Reuters) – Google Cloud will use Mistral AI’s Codestral artificial intelligence model for Google’s Vertex AI service, Google Cloud said on Wednesday. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT: The partnership highlights the rapid growth and popularity of Mistral AI, which many analysts view as the European alternative to the Microsoft-backed OpenAI. Google, meanwhile, is building its own…
By Fanny Potkin SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Intel’s push into software is going well and the company could have cumulative software revenue of $1 billion by the end of 2027, Chief Technology Officer Greg Lavender told Reuters. Intel made north of $100 million in software revenue in 2021, the year Lavender was brought in from cloud…
By Dan Peleschuk KYIV (Reuters) -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy appealed to U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Sunday to attend his peace summit as Ukraine struggles to stave off unrelenting attacks by Russia in its 27-month-old invasion. Ukraine hopes to host as many countries as possible at Kyiv-led talks in Switzerland next…
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By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Thirty congressional Democrats have publicly called on Democratic President Joe Biden to end his re-election bid after the 81-year-old incumbent’s halting debate performance against Republican rival Donald Trump. They represent more than one in ten Democrats in Congress, where Biden’s party controls 213 seats in the House of Representatives and…
By Boldizsar Gyori, Karol Badohal and Jan Lopatka LEVICE, Slovakia (Reuters) – A 71-year-old former security guard charged on Thursday with the attempted murder of Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico is the author of three collections of poetry who neighbours said had shown no sign of political extremism. Fico, 59, was shot as he greeted…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The chair and top Democrat on the House select committee on China will announce Tuesday they are launching a bipartisan working group to reduce China’s dominance of critical mineral supply chains. Representative John Moolenaar, the committee chair, and Raja Krishnamoorthi, the top Democrat, said the new working group will help…
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