By Aditi Shah and Tim Hepher ISTANBUL (Reuters) -The United States is in a “business recession” but the consumer is “strong”, Scott Kirby, chief executive of United Airlines, the world’s largest carrier, told reporters at an aviation conference in Istanbul on Monday. This can be seen as leisure air travellers come back stronger and faster…
By Nell Mackenzie LONDON (Reuters) – Hedge funds ditched European equities last week for stocks in the United States and Japan, client notes from JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs show, as strong economic data lifted equity markets in both countries. Commodity Trading Advisors, hedge funds that use algorithms to trade market trends, rotated…
(Reuters) – Russia’s foreign ministry said on Monday that it saw no prospects for extending the Black Sea grain export deal, which is set to expire in mid-July, Russian news agencies reported. TASS news agency quoted the ministry as saying that it was continuing consultations with the United Nations, and that ship inspections had resumed….
(Reuters) – Richard Teng, Binance’s head of regional markets outside the United States, is seen as the most likely candidate to succeed the cryptocurrency firm’s chief executive officer, Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, according to media reports. The issue of succession has taken on additional urgency, as the company has come under intense U.S. scrutiny in recent…
By Ben Blanchard and Laurie Chen TAIPEI/BEIJING (Reuters) -The U.S. Navy has released a video of what it called an “unsafe interaction” in the Taiwan Strait, in which a Chinese warship crossed in front of a U.S. destroyer in the sensitive waterway, a risky incident amid deteriorating Sino-U.S. ties. The encounter comes as both countries…
By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine has left tens of thousands of dead, displaced millions and sown economic turmoil across the world. Here are some details of the impact: * DEATH The war has caused death on a level not seen in Europe since World War Two. From Feb. 24,…
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…
