(This May 14 story is being republished with no changes to text) MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Chinese carmaker BYD Co has postponed plans to produce lithium cathodes for electric vehicle (EV) batteries in Chile by 2025, the firm’s Americas head told Reuters on Tuesday. Chile’s economic development agency CORFO last year said production at a…
Here is how Roku (ROKU) and Super Group (SGHC) Limited (SGHC) have performed compared to their sector so far this year.
BEIJING (Reuters) – A decision by the Trump administration to sanction China’s Xiaomi Corp in early 2021 was the catalyst for the company’s decision to build its first electric car, CEO Lei Jun said on Friday. Best known for its smartphones and home appliances, Xiaomi entered China’s crowded EV market this year, part of its…
(Reuters) – The Biden administration is urging big technology companies to ramp up efforts to curb antisemitic content on their platforms, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday. Representatives from companies including Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, TikTok and X met on Thursday with U.S. special envoy Deborah Lipstadt to monitor and combat antisemitism. Lipstadt requested that each company…
By Tom Sims and Alexander Hübner FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Germany has fined Citigroup nearly 13 million euros ($13.94 million) for lapses in its trading system controls, the nation’s bank regulator said on Thursday, as its consumer protection division imposed its largest penalty ever. It is related to a mishap in 2022 involving $1.4 billion in mistaken…
(Corrects to read ‘Tuesday’ (not ‘Wednesday’), in paragraph 1) By Stefano Rebaudo (Reuters) -Sterling hit a 22-month high versus the euro after a sharp rise the day before and was roughly unchanged against the dollar on Tuesday as investors await U.S. inflation data and the outcome of the Federal Reserve’s policy meeting. The single currency…
By Siddharth Cavale NEW YORK (Reuters) – “Target is my backup option,” said Chloe Guss, a shopper at the retail chain for nearly 20 years whose reservations about some of its products may spell trouble for the business. The New Yorker, 38, mostly shops at Target through her Instacart app for a few groceries and…
By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK (Reuters) -The dollar strengthened on Tuesday, after a reading of retail sales proved to be firmer than expected, but was not strong enough to alter expectations for the path of interest rates from the Federal Reserve. U.S. retail sales were unchanged in June, topping expectations of economists polled by Reuters…
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 Maha El Dahan DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia placed over half of an $11.2 billion share sale in Aramco with foreign investors, two people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Saturday. Saudi Arabia has been seeking to lure international investment to pour tens of billions of dollars into projects to diversify away…
