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Senior executives from three major U.S. oil companies met with White House and cabinet officials to warn that the energy disruption tied to the Iran conflict is likely to worsen, and that continued interruption of flows through the Strait of Hormuz will keep global energy markets volatile. The report of those meetings could not be immediately verif…
Lynas Rare Earths said its U.S. unit, Lynas USA LLC, has entered a binding letter of intent with the U.S. government to finalize a four-year rare earth oxide supply arrangement. The Pentagon will earmark roughly $96 million to procure light and heavy rare earth oxide products from Lynas, with a floor price of $110 per kilogram for NdPr oxide. The L…
Perpetual Limited has agreed to sell its wealth management business to Bain Capital in a transaction that carries an immediate cash payment of A$500 million (about $350 million). The arrangement features additional contingent upfront consideration linked to the advice arm's performance before close and an earn-out of up to A$50 million based on the…
Honda will take a 2.5 trillion yen ($15.7 billion) writedown tied to its electric vehicle operations, chiefly in the U.S., and report its first annual loss as a listed company in nearly 70 years. The company has cancelled three U.S.-planned battery models, faces up to 1.7 trillion yen of cash outflows to settle supplier contracts, and warned that i…
Russian equities finished the Moscow session largely unchanged on the MOEX Russia Index, with energy names among the top risers and a handful of banks, industrials and an airline posting modest declines. Trading breadth favored advancers, implied volatility reached a 52-week low, and commodity and currency moves included higher crude prices and a f…
Miles Hurrell has resigned as chief executive of New Zealand dairy cooperative Fonterra Co-operative Group after an eight-year tenure as CEO and a 25-year career with the company. He will continue in the role during a six-month notice period while the board conducts a search for his replacement, which it expects to complete in the coming months. Hu…
Sunday’s Academy Awards arrive with an unusually fluid best-picture contest and heightened security measures after a federal warning of a possible Iranian threat to California. The ceremony, hosted again by Conan O’Brien, will showcase heavy nominees such as Sinners and One Battle After Another while unfolding amid industry consolidation, productio…
An iFixit teardown finds Apple’s recently announced MacBook Neo - the education-focused laptop starting at $499 for students - is the company’s most repairable model since 2012, thanks to design changes such as screwed batteries and keyboards and modular camera and fingerprint components. Despite the improvements, iFixit gave the MacBook Neo a 6 ou…
U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said Asia-Pacific allies concluded 22 agreements worth $57 billion with American companies during the Indo-Pacific Energy Security Forum in Tokyo. Burgum told Fox News that Japan is showing interest in purchasing additional U.S. oil and is helping lead efforts to increase oil supplies.
Saudi Arabia's Tadawul All Share index finished the session 0.06% lower, pressured by declines in Hotels & Tourism, Agriculture & Food and Energy & Utilities. Whereas several industrial and chemical stocks outperformed, market breadth favored decliners and a leading fisheries stock hit a five-year low. International commodity moves included a rise …
Leaders of major U.S. passenger and cargo carriers issued an open letter to Congress urging a rapid resolution to a 29-day partial federal government shutdown that has left roughly 50,000 Transportation Security Administration officers working without pay. The airline executives said growing TSA absences have caused long security lines and travel d…
This week saw several major analyst actions focused on companies exposed to artificial intelligence-related demand. JPMorgan lifted Oracle to Overweight following a steep share-price decline and fresh debt issuance that eased financing concerns. TD Cowen initiated coverage of Ciena as a Top Pick tied to datacenter networking demand. Susquehanna rai…
Generative AI is being applied across U.S. retail operations with the most immediate effects in distribution centers and labor scheduling. A Jefferies sector report highlights that large-format retailers - notably Walmart and Target - are moving faster to integrate AI-driven automation and analytics, producing SG&A leverage and improved inventory f…
Russian equities closed with mixed footing as the MOEX Russia Index finished unchanged. Several energy and materials firms led gains, while metals and transport names slipped. The Russian Volatility Index fell to a new 52-week low amid notable moves in oil, gold and currency rates that weighed on market dynamics.
A Goldman Sachs 'Top of Mind' note warns that agentic AI capable of autonomous software development poses an existential challenge to the software sector, accelerating a re-rating of software equities. Analysts argue incumbents retain structural advantages - integration into workflows, proprietary training data and customer relationships - that can…
Ongoing conflict in the Middle East and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz produced fresh market volatility, boosting selected equities and commodity-linked names. Hims & Hers leapt after resolving a dispute and unveiling a partnership to sell Ozempic and Wegovy, PayPay enjoyed a strong IPO debut, fertilizer producers rallied on supply concerns, a…
Bernstein analysts say the rise of generative AI represents a structural change for the online travel agency sector that could be more disruptive than Google's move into travel in 2010. The firm warns that AI-driven, high-context natural language search and agent interfaces may reduce the scale and marketing advantages enjoyed by Booking Holdings a…
U.S. and Japanese officials have established how each will participate in a potential collaborative nuclear power project involving Westinghouse and Japanese equipment makers. Discussions include onshore supply-chain roles in Japan and target technologies ranging from large pressurised water reactors to small modular reactors, with potential invest…
Meta is planning substantial workforce reductions that could affect 20% or more of its employees as the company seeks to offset heavy AI infrastructure spending and capture efficiency gains from AI-assisted work. Executives have signaled senior leaders to prepare for reductions, though no date or final headcount has been set. The moves would mark t…
iFixit’s teardown of Apple’s newly announced MacBook Neo finds significant improvements in serviceability compared with recent Mac designs, including screws for the battery and keyboard and easily replaceable camera and fingerprint modules. Despite those changes, the device received a 6 out of 10 repairability score and retains soldered DRAM, which…
Spirit Aviation Holdings has disclosed plans to pare its fleet to about one-third of its size before its most recent Chapter 11 filing, moving forward with a deep restructuring that would shrink aircraft counts, cut debt and refocus the carrier on core markets. The plan faces negotiation challenges tied to unpredictable fuel prices and creditor con…
A federal judge in Manhattan dismissed a proposed class action accusing Stellantis of defrauding investors by failing to disclose practices described as channel stuffing. Plaintiffs alleged the automaker overloaded dealers with inventory to boost short-term sales while harming long-term results and thereby made misleading statements about pricing p…
Digg has started cutting staff as its leadership says the platform has struggled to reestablish itself against incumbent social networks and has been hit by a large wave of sophisticated AI-driven bots that compromised voting and engagement systems. Founder Kevin Rose is slated to return full time to lead a rebuild beginning in April.
Several leading U.S. automotive trade organizations have sent a joint letter urging the Trump administration to maintain a Commerce Department cybersecurity regulation that effectively bars most Chinese-made vehicles from the U.S. market. The groups also warned against any efforts by Chinese automakers to bypass those restrictions by building produ…
The U.S. Department of War has issued a $2.01 billion modification to Raytheon Co.'s Advanced Extremely High Frequency terminal production contract, increasing the contract's total value to $2.97 billion from $960 million. The contract, first awarded in 2021 under a ceiling arrangement, lists work at Raytheon sites in Marlboro, Massachusetts, and L…
