A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan Just as markets were getting all antsy again about regional U.S. banks, Big Tech mega caps seem to have calmed the investment world with cloud-covered earnings beats and giddy talk of the quantum leap in artificial intelligence. After Tuesday’s bank stress…
By Noel Randewich and Akash Sriram (Reuters) -Microsoft Corp and Google-parent Alphabet Inc talked up investments in artificial intelligence (AI) for the second quarter in a row but their results on Tuesday suggested that any substantial additions to sales will be slow. The tech behemoths have launched an array of products that they promise are…
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s producer inflation slowed to 10.6% year-on-year in March from 12.2% in February, statistics agency data showed on Wednesday. On a month-on-month basis, the producer price index was at 1.0% in March from 0.6% the previous month, Statistics South Africa said. (Reporting by Anait Miridzhanian; Editing by Alexander Winning)
DUBAI (Reuters) -A member of Iran’s influential clerical body was assassinated in the country’s northern province of Mazandaran on Wednesday, the semi-official Fars news agency reported, adding that the suspected killer had been detained. Abbasali Soleimani, also a former representative of Iran’s top leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the predominantly Sunni province of Sistan-Baluchistan, died…
By Natalie Grover and Maggie Fick LONDON (Reuters) -GSK began 2023 with a quarterly performance that beat analyst expectations and extended a series of positive results following strong sales of its roster of vaccines as well as HIV and respiratory medicines. It reaffirmed its guidance for 2023, saying it expected adjusted operating profit growth to…
WARSAW (Reuters) – Microsoft will build a data centre in Poland, the company’s President for Europe, the Middle east and Africa (EMEA) said on Wednesday at the European Economic Congress in the southern city of Katowice. (This story has been corrected to say that the data centre has been launched, instead of that it will…
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Leaders from a top U.S. business lobbying group said on Wednesday that Beijing’s probe against U.S.-based chipmaker Micron Technology Inc marked a “major concern” for other companies operating in the country. In the absence of data or “real evidence showing that Micron’s products provided or stood as an example of a particular…
By Makiko Yamazaki and Ritsuko Shimizu TOKYO (Reuters) – Sompo Holdings Inc will place more focus on integrating domestic and overseas operations for further growth after a spell of acquisitions abroad boosted the global presence of Japan’s No. 3 non-life insurer group, a senior executive said. “We rapidly shifted capital allocations to overseas to secure…
By Tim Hepher PARIS (Reuters) -Airbus has changed the leadership of its A320-family jetliner programme, the profit backbone of the world’s largest planemaker, as it faces a steep production ramp-up in the face of industrial pressures, industry sources said on Wednesday. Current programme leader Michael Menking has been appointed head of special projects for the…
By Tim Hepher PARIS (Reuters) -French aero engine maker Safran unveiled stronger than expected quarterly revenues on Wednesday, buoyed by a swift recovery in air travel, but predicted problems with aviation’s supply chain could drag into next year. “The (pandemic) demand crisis is well and truly behind us,” Chief Executive Olivier Andries said after reporting…
