WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Mark Warner is attempting to assemble a group of Democratic senators to ask Joe Biden to exit the presidential race after last week’s debate performance, the Washington Post reported on Friday, citing two unidentified people with knowledge of the effort. Warner, the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, earlier this…
ZURICH (Reuters) – The merger of the Swiss units of UBS and Credit Suisse could be completed as early as July 1, a senior executive at UBS was quoted as saying on Tuesday. UBS, which acquired its former rival Credit Suisse last year after the bank’s collapse, had previously indicated the two units would be…
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…
By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) – Visa and Mastercard have agreed to pay $197 million to resolve a class action by millions of consumers accusing the financial payment companies of keeping cash access fees artificially high. The plaintiffs’ lawyers revealed the proposed accord on Wednesday in a filing in Washington, D.C., federal court. The settlement involves…
By Arsheeya Bajwa (Reuters) -International Business Machines is nearing a deal to buy cloud software provider HashiCorp, according to a person familiar with the matter. Hashicorp’s stock surged 24%, giving it a market value of $6.1 billion, after the Wall Street Journal first reported the talks. Under CEO Arvind Krishna, IBM has focused on acquisitions…
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…
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States could revive some of its recently retired nuclear power plants to help meet rising demand for zero-emissions electricity, or add reactors to existing sites, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said in an interview. The administration of President Joe Biden believes nuclear power is critical to meeting greenhouse…
(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…
By Scott DiSavino (Reuters) -Power use in Texas was on track to break the record for the month of May on Friday for a second time this week and could top that again over the Memorial Day weekend as homes and businesses crank up air conditioners to escape a heat wave. The Electric Reliability Council…
By Phuong Nguyen HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnamese electric vehicle (EV) maker VinFast is delaying the launch of its planned $4 billion factory in North Carolina to 2028 and cutting its delivery forecast for this year by 20,000 units amid uncertainties in the global EV market. VinFast, founded by Vietnam’s richest man Pham Nhat Vuong in…
