By Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) -The U.N. nuclear watchdog’s Board of Governors will hold an emergency meeting on Thursday at the request of both Ukraine and Russia to discuss attacks on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, after the enemies accused each other of drone attacks. The International Atomic Energy Agency has said drones struck the…
(Reuters) – U.S. power consumption will rise to record highs in 2024 and 2025, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in its Short Term Energy Outlook (STEO) on Tuesday. EIA projected power demand will rise to 4,096 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) in 2024 and 4,125 billion kWh in 2025. That compares with 4,000 billion kWh…
(Reuters) – U.S. sports-betting service BetMGM said on Monday it expects revenue to grow in the second half of the year and into 2025, banking on demand from punters looking to cash in on the National Football League (NFL) season. “We have exceeded our goals for both acquisition and retention, which should lead to higher…
By Davide Barbuscia and Matt Tracy NEW YORK (Reuters) – The spreads between U.S. investment-grade corporate bond yields and U.S. Treasuries have surged to their highest in over three months, in a sign of risk aversion due to political uncertainty in France and as U.S. government bonds rallied. Spreads indicate the premium investors demand to…
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 Allison Lampert and David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Boeing’s new CEO Kelly Ortberg said on Thursday he would be based in the planemaker’s birthplace Seattle, moving closer to the factory floor to rein in a safety crisis. Ortberg’s confirmation of earlier reports that he would move to Puget Sound, Washington, rather than Boeing’s corporate headquarters…
TORONTO (Reuters) – TD Bank’s chief compliance officer has left the bank, according to a memo sent internally, at a time the Canadian lender faces U.S. regulators and the Justice Department in a probe related to its anti-money laundering program. Monica Kowal, who joined the bank in 2017, left the company this week, and will…
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…
(Reuters) – Boeing said furloughs began on Friday for thousands of employees in Washington State and Oregon, after more than 32,000 workers went on strike last week, halting production of the U.S. planemaker’s best-selling 737 MAX and other jets. Striking workers with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers received their last paycheck this…
(Deletes extraneous words ‘has been’ in paragraph 8) MILWAUKEE (Reuters) – Ohio U.S. Senator J.D. Vance, Donald Trump’s new running mate, has embraced trade barriers, isolationism and social conservatism, issues that have proven popular with much of Trump’s mostly white, working-class base. Some of those same stances, however, risk turning off moderate voters and major…
