US warns space companies about foreign spying

By Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. counterintelligence agencies on Friday warned the American space industry to guard against efforts by foreign intelligence entities to steal research and trade secrets as they try to boost their own countries’ space programs. “We anticipate growing threats to this burgeoning sector of the U.S. economy,” a U.S. counterintelligence…

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Fed done hiking; slim majority of economists say no rate cut through March – Reuters poll

By Prerana Bhat and Indradip Ghosh BENGALURU (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Reserve is likely done raising interest rates, according to a strong majority of economists polled by Reuters, and a slight majority now expect the central bank to wait at least through end-March before cutting them. With the world’s largest economy defying nearly every…

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Ethiopian Airlines to manufacture parts in venture with Boeing

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Ethiopian Airlines will start manufacturing aircraft parts in a venture with Boeing at an initial cost of $15 million, the government’s investment agency said on Friday. The state-owned carrier, which is the biggest in Africa, has already signed the deal that also involves the local state Industrial Parks Development Corporation, the Ethiopian…

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Big Money Bets on Visa

    A significant investment activity has recently been observed in Visa, showing a tilt towards a bearish sentiment. Our analysis from the latest options history highlights 17 noteworthy trades. Visa is a global financial services company, recognized for pioneering electronic funds transfers throughout the world, primarily through its branded credit cards, debit cards, and…

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China’s Xpeng falls on dull forecast as EV price war takes toll

(Reuters) – Xpeng on Friday forecast third-quarter revenue below analysts’ expectations and reported a hit to margins following an inventory writedown, sending its U.S.-listed shares down 7% before the bell. The Chinese electric vehicle-maker forecast revenue of 8.5 billion yuan to 9 billion yuan for the current quarter ending September, below estimates of 9.77 billion…

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Ex-Trump administration officials target corporate diversity efforts

By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – Activision Blizzard Inc and Kellogg Co have joined a growing list of major U.S. companies to face claims from a group founded by former Trump administration officials that efforts to diversify their workforces amount to illegal discrimination. America First Legal this week urged the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)…

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Furious Chinese investors lodge complaints over trust firm’s missed payments

BEIJING (Reuters) – Angry investors in trust products of a leading Chinese shadow bank have lodged complaint letters with regulators, pleading with the authorities to step in after the big Chinese trust firm missed payments on dozens of investment products. Zhongrong International Trust Co., which managed assets worth $108 billion at end-2022, has missed payments…

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