By Jonathan Saul LONDON (Reuters) – Urgent action must be taken in the Red Sea to stop attacks on merchant shipping by Yemen’s Houthis, leading industry groups said on Wednesday, after the sinking of a second ship. Iran-aligned Houthi militants first launched drone and missile strikes on the important trade route in November in what…
By Louise Rasmussen and Gwladys Fouche OSLO (Reuters) -Norway’s $1.7 trillion sovereign wealth fund said on Saturday it will vote against ratifying Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package, which is up for a shareholder vote next week, after a Delaware judge invalidated it earlier this year. The fund is Tesla’s eighth-biggest shareholder, according…
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…
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s lithium prices rebounded on Friday after a powerful earthquake hit Chile’s major lithium producing region, although growing demand concerns weighed on the metal used in electric vehicle batteries. The most-traded November lithium carbonate futures on the Guangzhou Futures Exchange rose 2.9% to 89,800 yuan ($12,356.89) per metric ton on Friday, having…
(Reuters) – Dell Technologies shares tumbled about 14% in premarket trading on Friday, as the PC and server maker expects sizeable AI investments to dent its quarterly profit. Dell is on track to lose more than $17 billion in market value, if premarket losses hold. The stock has more than doubled this year. Companies, including…
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Ford shipped out its first batch of cars from the once-ignored Guaymas port near its plant in the northern Mexican state of Sonora on Tuesday, in a project that, if fully launched, could cut its logistics costs by 30%. The initial shipment of pick-ups and Broncos, headed for Chile, is part of…
By Tom Hals WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) – Tesla began its fight for legal recognition of a shareholder vote favoring Elon Musk’s record compensation, telling a Delaware judge that it “significantly impacts” her ruling voiding the pay, according to a letter made public on Monday. Tesla wrote to Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick that the parties in the…
By Nora Eckert and Nathan Gomes (Reuters) -Ford Motor reported a dip in second-quarter adjusted profit on Wednesday as the automaker continues to battle costly quality issues and an EV business that is weighing on its bottom line, sending shares tumbling 12% in after-hours trading. The Detroit automaker earned an adjusted profit of 47 cents…
(Reuters) – Robinhood Markets said on Monday it had bought artificial intelligence-powered investment platform Pluto Capital, adding the trading app to a growing list of companies looking to offer AI tools to customers. Top technology companies are racing to build AI into their products and services. Generative AI, which aims to create human-like interactions by…
By Brendan Pierson and Nate Raymond (Reuters) – Arizona’s top court on Tuesday revived a ban on nearly all abortions under a law from 1864, a half century before statehood and women’s suffrage, further restricting reproductive rights in a state where terminating a pregnancy was already barred at 15 weeks of gestation. The Arizona Supreme…
