By Allison Lampert and David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Boeing’s new CEO Kelly Ortberg said on Thursday he would be based in the planemaker’s birthplace Seattle, moving closer to the factory floor to rein in a safety crisis. Ortberg’s confirmation of earlier reports that he would move to Puget Sound, Washington, rather than Boeing’s corporate headquarters…
(Reuters) – Proxy advisory firm Glass Lewis said on Saturday it has urged Tesla shareholders to reject a $56 billion pay package for Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk, which if passed would be the largest pay package for a CEO in corporate America. The report cited reasons like the “excessive size” of the pay deal,…
(Reuters) -Intel is in advanced talks for a deal with Apollo Global Management in which the equity firm would provide more than $11 billion to build a facility in Ireland, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. The move comes as Intel looks to expand its presence across the United States with a planned $100-billion…
By Jeff Mason PARIS (Reuters) – The White House declined to say on Sunday whether President Joe Biden will meet Benjamin Netanyahu when the Israeli prime minister visits Washington next month to address the U.S. Congress. “I don’t have anything to announce today,” Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan said in an interview with CBS’s…
BOGOTA (Reuters) -U.S. car maker General Motors will close its manufacturing operations in Colombia and Ecuador, the company said in a statement on Friday, as part of its shift towards producing next-generation vehicles. Manufacturing will cease at company’s Colmotores plant in Colombia from Friday, it said, while operations will halt at its factory in Ecuador…
By Jeff Mason and Nandita Bose CHICAGO (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’ election effort has raised around $500 million since she became the Democratic presidential candidate, sources told Reuters, an unprecedented money haul that reflects donor enthusiasm going into the Nov. 5 election. Four sources familiar with the fundraising effort told Reuters that…
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…
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…
By Ashitha Shivaprasad (Reuters) – Gold prices firmed on Friday, poised for their best week since April 5, following recent economic data that boosted bets of an interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve. Spot gold gained 0.2% at $2,350.87 per ounce by 0212 GMT after hitting a more than two-week high earlier. Prices have…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China has not responded to U.S. nuclear-weapons risk-reduction proposals and Washington has questions about Beijing’s call for no-first-use talks while China continues to build up its arsenal, the top U.S. arms control official said on Wednesday. Under Secretary of State Bonnie Jenkins told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee the U.S. estimates China…
