Why Is Netflix Stock Up Today?
Shares of Netflix, Inc. ( NASDAQ:NFLX ) are rising Friday after the company announced a significant change to its stock. What To Know: Netflix…
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Norway wealth fund to vote against Musk’s $56 billion Tesla pay package
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…
Amazon to wind down its Astro for Business security robot
(Reuters) -Amazon.com said on Wednesday it would discontinue its security robot, Astro for Business, for small- and medium-sized businesses as it shifts its focus to household robots. The e-commerce giant initially launched the canine-like robot for household use in 2021. Astro for Business was launched last November for a range of customers including retail, manufacturing,…
US Supreme Court narrows reach of federal corruption law
By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court sided on Wednesday with a former mayor of an Indiana city who was convicted in a case in which he was accused of taking a bribe, in a ruling that could make it harder for federal prosecutors to bring corruption cases against state and local…
General Motors approves new $6 billion share buyback plan
(Reuters) -General Motors on Tuesday announced a new $6 billion share buyback plan, just over a month after the automaker raised its dividend on upbeat annual forecast, citing stable prices and demand for gasoline-engine vehicles. The company had in November outlined a $10 billion stock buyback on the heels of reaching a costly new labor…
US economy no longer overheated, Fed’s Powell tells Congress
By Howard Schneider and Ann Saphir WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. is “no longer an overheated economy” with a job market that has “cooled considerably” from its pandemic-era extremes and in many ways is back where it was before the health crisis, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said in remarks to Congress that suggested the case for…
QuantumScape Stock Slides Ahead Of Q3 Earnings: What’s Going On?
QuantumScape Corp ( NYSE:QS ) shares are trading lower Wednesday morning as the market anticipates its third-quarter earnings report after the clos…
Boeing’s new CEO moves to factory heartland to stem safety crisis
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…
Zelenskiy, from ravaged Kharkiv, urges Biden and Xi to join peace summit
By Dan Peleschuk KYIV (Reuters) -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy appealed to U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Sunday to attend his peace summit as Ukraine struggles to stave off unrelenting attacks by Russia in its 27-month-old invasion. Ukraine hopes to host as many countries as possible at Kyiv-led talks in Switzerland next…
U.S. presses TikTok, Meta and X to crack down on antisemitic posts, Bloomberg News reports
(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…