By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) -Signs of de-dollarisation are unfolding in the global economy, strategists at the biggest U.S. bank JPMorgan said on Monday, although the currency should maintain its long-held dominance for the foreseeable future. The impact of steep U.S. interest rate rises and the use of sanctions that have frozen the likes of…
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – OpenAI is considering investment opportunities in Israel, Microsoft Israel R&D center quoted the company’s CEO, Sam Altman, as saying during a visit to the country on Monday. Microsoft, an OpenAI backer, hosted Altman at its Israel headquarters. (This story has been refiled to add a more specific attribution from Microsoft in paragraph…
By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court has delivered the latest in a series of rulings undercutting organized labor, with some legal experts predicting that the decision will make unions that engage in strikes more vulnerable to lawsuits while others see a more modest impact. An 8-1 ruling on Thursday authored by…
By Qiaoyi Li and Brenda Goh BEIJING (Reuters) – U.S. automaker Tesla Inc delivered 77,695 China-made electric vehicles (EVs) in May, a 2.4% jump from April, data from the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) showed on Monday. On a yearly basis, sales rose 142% in May from 32,165 vehicles in the same month of 2022…
By Elizabeth Pineau, Gilles Guillaume and Michel Rose PARIS – For French President Emmanuel Macron, it was a light-bulb moment. In an ornate ballroom at the Palace of Versailles last July, the head of Taiwan’s ProLogium took out a pair of scissors and cut one of its solid-state batteries the size of a credit card…
By Chiara Elisei LONDON(Reuters) – A European derivatives committee said on Monday that a bankruptcy credit event has not occurred in relation to France’s debt-laden Casino, dashing investor hopes for a payout on credit insurance linked to the retailer. The EMEA Credit Derivatives Determination Committee (CDDC) met on Friday to discuss the question raised by…
RIYADH (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro arrived in Saudi Arabia on Monday, state media reported, as the kingdom continues to expand its diplomatic outreach beyond traditional Western alliances. Maduro was received at the airport of the Saudi Red Sea city of Jeddah by Deputy Governor of Mecca region Prince Badr bin Sultan and other…
By Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) – The Bank of Canada (BoC) became the first major global central bank to pause its rate-hike campaign in January, but the economy’s surprisingly strong performance since then will test Governor Tiff Macklem’s resolve to stay on the sidelines this week. A return to rate-hike mode would raise questions about…
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan World markets retained a warm afterglow from Friday’s shining U.S. employment reading, with only minor gains in crude oil prices on Saudi Arabia’s output cut clouding the picture. A forecast-busting May payrolls gain, coupled with signs of cooling wage growth, provided…
By Canan Sevgili (Reuters) -Turkey’s lira extended recent losses, weakening more than 1% against the dollar on Monday, while stocks and dollar-denominated bonds rallied after the appointment of highly-regarded Mehmet Simsek as finance minister. Simsek won markets’ confidence as finance minister and deputy prime minister between 2009-2018 and his appointment is seen signalling a return…
