BEIJING (Reuters) – Apple has launched an aggressive discounting campaign on its official Tmall site in China, offering discounts of up to 2,300 yuan ($318) on select iPhone models. The discounting comes as the U.S. tech giant seeks to defend its position in the high-end smartphone market, where it faces increasing competition from local rivals…
(Reuters) -Chipotle Mexican Grill surpassed market estimates for quarterly sales on Wednesday as demand for its rice bowls and burritos held up even as prices increased, lifting its shares about 15% in extended trading. The California-based chain has been able to buck a larger slowdown in customer traffic within the U.S. restaurant industry, partly because…
By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks are at fresh records, bitcoin is soaring and investors are spurning insurance against portfolio declines as evidence that the economy is headed for a so-called soft landing whets market participants’ appetite for risk. Call it the Goldilocks trade – a bet that the Federal Reserve…
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Four years after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell made fighting unemployment a bigger priority during the COVID-19 pandemic, he faces a pivotal test of that commitment amid rising joblessness, mounting evidence inflation is under control, and a benchmark interest rate that is still the highest in a quarter of…
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…
(Reuters) -Dell Technologies beat Wall Street estimates for first-quarter revenue on Thursday, ending a streak of six-quarters of decline, but its results fail to impress investors, sending its shares down more than 13% in extended trading. A surge in demand for high-performance computing and large-scale data centers to support growing adoption of generative AI has…
(Reuters) – Online travel agency Expedia beat analysts’ expectations on Thursday for second-quarter profit, helped by sustained demand for international travel, sending its shares up 7% after the bell. “The travel environment was healthy in the second quarter and like the last few quarters, we saw strong ongoing demand internationally relative to the US,” CEO…
By Jeff Mason and Joseph Ax EAU CLAIRE, Wisconsin (Reuters) -Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her new running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, put his Midwestern credentials to the test on Wednesday with a rally in the battleground state of Wisconsin, telling a boisterous crowd of thousands that Republican rival Donald Trump would threaten…
By Pete Schroeder and Nupur Anand WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The biggest U.S. banks would have enough capital to withstand severe economic and market turmoil, the Federal Reserve’s annual “stress test” exercise showed on Wednesday, but firms faced steeper hypothetical losses this year due to riskier portfolios. The exercise found 31 big banks would weather a…
Shares of Bitfarms Ltd. ( NASDAQ:BITF ) are trading lower on Wednesday. The stock started to head down last week after announcing convertible note…
