(Refiles to remove extraneous word in paragraph 2.) MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico City’s mayor said on Wednesday she wants to boost the number of ‘digital nomads’ in the capital after signing an agreement with short-term rental platform Airbnb, despite fears the influx is pricing residents out of the rental market. Asked about complaints over…
SEATTLE (AP) — A Washington state judge on Wednesday fined Facebook parent company Meta nearly $25 million for repeatedly and intentionally violating campaign finance disclosure law, in what is believed to be the largest campaign finance penalty in U.S. history. The penalty issued by King County Superior Court Judge Douglass North was the maximum allowed…
By Ankur Banerjee SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Asian shares rose on Thursday on growing expectations that major central banks could start slowing th pace of interest rate hikes in coming months, while the dollar’s retreat lifted commodities and pushed treasury yields lower. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was 1.59% higher and set for…
By Joyce Lee and Heekyong Yang SEOUL (Reuters) -Samsung Electronics Co Ltd reported a 31% drop in third-quarter profit on Thursday and said geopolitical uncertainties are likely to dampen demand until early 2023, as the global economic downturn slashed appetite for electronic devices. The world’s top maker of memory chips and smartphones said that despite…
By Laura Sanicola (Reuters) – Oil prices continued to rise in early Asian trade on Thursday after surging more than 3% in the previous session, driven by record U.S. crude exports and a weaker U.S. dollar. Brent crude futures rose 25 cents, or 0.3%, to $95.94 a barrel by 0015 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate…
PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron vowed Wednesday to implement a pension reform that would eventually push up the retirement age by three years to 65, making younger generations work longer. In an interview on France 2 television, Macron said the changes would start being applied next year. “There’s only one way to do…
TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s upcoming economic stimulus package is expected to include an extra budget of more than 29 trillion yen ($198 billion), far exceeding a previous estimate, national broadcaster NHK reported on Thursday. Only a day earlier, Japanese media had reported that the government was set to spend about 25 trillion yen on the stimulus…
(Reuters) – Credit Suisse is nearing a deal to sell its securitized-products group to investors Apollo Global Management and Pacific Investment Management Co, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The consortium including Pimco, a big bond manager, and Apollo, a large alternative asset manager, beat out a group…
DETROIT (AP) — Ford said Wednesday that it is disbanding Argo AI, an autonomous vehicle company that it co-owns with Volkswagen. Executives said they don’t see a path to profitability on fully autonomous vehicles, and will now focus on partially automated driver-assist systems, which need to be monitored by humans. “We’ve looked at this every…
Facebook parent Meta on Wednesday reported that its revenue declined for a second consecutive quarter, hurt by falling advertising sales as it faces competition from TikTok’s wildly popular video app. The quarter’s weak results raised fresh questions about whether Meta’s plans to spend $10 billion a year on the metaverse — a concept that doesn’t…
