By Nick Carey LONDON (Reuters) -Nissan will pump 1.12 billion pounds ($1.4 billion) into building electric versions of two of its cars at its British plant, in a boost for the country’s auto industry and a prime minister desperate to attract foreign investment. Friday’s announcement fires the starting gun on Rishi Sunak’s Global Investment Summit…
By Jarrett Renshaw and Stephanie Kelly (Reuters) – The White House is stalling action on requests by Farm Belt states to allow regional sales of gasoline blended with higher volumes of ethanol after oil industry warnings that the move could cause regional supply disruptions and price spikes, according to two sources familiar with the matter….
By Harry Robertson LONDON (Reuters) – Investors have poured $40 billion into stocks since Oct. 9, the biggest two-week inflow since February 2022, as equities rallied, Bank of America said on Friday. In the four trading sessions to Tuesday, investors put $16.5 billion into stock funds, BofA said in its weekly Flow Shows research note,…
By Sinead Cruise and Lawrence White LONDON (Reuters) -Barclays is working on plans to save up to 1 billion pounds ($1.25 billion), which could involve cutting as many as 2,000 jobs, mainly in the British bank’s back office, a person with direct knowledge of the proposals told Reuters. Managers at Barclays, led by Chief Executive…
By Yelin Mo and Brenda Goh BEIJING (Reuters) -Apple saw a decline in the number of smartphones sold during China’s recent Singles Day shopping festival, data from Counterpoint Research showed, lagging domestic rivals Huawei and Xiaomi which recorded robust increases. The number of Apple smartphones sold declined 4% year-on-year during the two-week sales from Oct….
By Anna Tong, Jeffrey Dastin and Krystal Hu (Reuters) -Ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s four days in exile, several staff researchers wrote a letter to the board of directors warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The previously unreported letter…
By Daniel Trotta and Allison Lampert (Reuters) -Millions of Americans crowded into airports or hit the road on Wednesday ahead of Thanksgiving Day, creating the busiest travel day since the pandemic virtually shut down the tradition of visiting friends and family over the long holiday weekend. A sprawling storm that brought downpours and gusting winds…
By Nicole Jao NEW YORK (Reuters) – Oil prices fell nearly 1% in a volatile session on Wednesday as OPEC+ producers unexpectedly delayed a meeting on production cuts, raising questions about global crude supplies. Brent futures settled 49 cents lower to $81.96 a barrel, after falling more than 4% to a low of $78.41 earlier…
By Carolina Mandl, Svea Herbst-Bayliss and David Randall NEW YORK (Reuters) -The recent rally that has lifted U.S. stocks and bonds is more of a year-end rebound than a turning point, according to big money managers, who see fiscal and monetary policies, next year’s presidential election and recession fears as likely to start weighing on…
By Harshita Mary Varghese (Reuters) – Broadcom on Wednesday closed its $69 billion acquisition of cloud-computing firm VMware after receiving regulatory approval in last major market China and ending a months-long saga. The deal, one of the biggest globally when announced in May 2022, was the latest in CEO Hock Tan’s efforts to boost the…
