By Anirban Sen (Reuters) – Walt Disney said on Wednesday it may have to pay up to $5 billion more to buy Comcast’s minority stake in Hulu, if an appraiser were to agree with Comcast’s assessment that the stake should be valued at more than $40 billion. Earlier this year, Disney and Comcast hired investment…
By Pete Schroeder and Nupur Anand WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Big U.S. lenders are expected to show they have ample capital to weather any renewed turmoil during this week’s Federal Reserve health checks, but will be conservative on investor payouts amid economic and regulatory uncertainties, analysts said. The central bank on Wednesday will release the results…
By Alexandra Ulmer (Reuters) – A major spending group backing Republican Donald Trump brought in nearly $70 million in donations last month and plans to spend $100 million in advertising over the summer across U.S. election battleground states, according to a memo sent to donors and seen by Reuters. The June 4 memo, written by…
By Chibuike Oguh NEW YORK (Reuters) -Global stocks edged higher while U.S. Treasury yields dipped on Tuesday as markets weighed data showing a persistently tight labor market, and prospects of interest rate cuts after comments from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. The Fed needs more data before cutting rates to ensure recent weaker inflation readings…
By Anna Tong (Reuters) -OpenAI plans to announce its artificial intelligence-powered search product on Monday, according to two sources familiar with the matter, raising the stakes in its competition with search king Google. The announcement date, though subject to change, has not been previously reported. Bloomberg and the Information have reported that Microsoft-backed OpenAI is…
(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) -The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions said on Friday that Novo Nordisk CEO Lars Jorgensen has agreed to testify voluntarily in a hearing focusing on U.S. prices for weight loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy. A U.S. Senate health panel vote that was scheduled for its June 18 meeting, to decide whether…
FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Porsche on Friday reported a 30% drop in first-quarter operating profit, citing higher investments in what the German luxury carmaker has called its biggest year of product launches in history. Operating profit in the first three months of 2024 came in at 1.28 billion euros ($1.37 billion), in line with an LSEG estimate,…
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration faced increasing pressure from both Republicans and his fellow Democrats on Wednesday to ease restrictions on how Ukraine can use weapons provided by the United States in its war against Russia. Senator Ben Cardin, the Democratic chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, noted…
By Anton Bridge TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese technology investor Softbank Group believes it has an advantage over smaller rivals because it can leverage its entire $183.6 billion portfolio to help it build an ecosystem of firms that can employ artificial intelligence, a top executive said on Monday. “Because of the size of our platform, we’re…
