(Reuters) – An AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. shareholder sued the theater chain in Delaware court on Monday, saying AMC is late in holding its annual meeting where shareholders elect members of the company’s board. Individual shareholder Kevin Barnes said in the lawsuit that AMC is required by its corporate bylaws to hold a meeting each…
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) – An experimental Alzheimer’s disease drug developed by Acumen Pharmaceuticals targeting a novel form of the toxic protein beta amyloid in the brain passed an early safety test and will advance to a larger trial, the company said on Sunday. The drug, ACI193, was well tolerated in the first trial…
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Economic activity in Brazil declined in May, showed a central bank index on Monday, signaling a non-linear trajectory for the country’s growth, even as analysts have been consistently revising their forecasts upward for the year. The IBC-BR economic activity index, a key gauge of gross domestic product (GDP), declined by a seasonally…
By Clare Jim HONG KONG (Reuters) -China Evergrande Group, the world’s most indebted property developer, posted a combined loss of $81 billion in 2021 and 2022 and a rise in total liabilities in its long overdue results on Monday. The developer defaulted in late 2021 and has been struggling to complete projects and repay its…
By Amruta Khandekar, Shreyashi Sanyal and Shristi Achar A (Reuters) -European shares fell on Monday as Richemont led a slide among luxury firms on weaker-than-expected organic sales growth and as lacklustre economic growth in China raised concerns about demand from the world’s second-biggest economy. The pan-European STOXX 600 index closed 0.6% lower, with luxury giants…
By Akash Sriram (Reuters) – Investments in space startups stayed flat in the second quarter, a positive sign for a sector that faced a funding slump over the past few quarters due to the grim economic outlook, a report by venture capital firm Space Capital showed. The April-June period saw $6 billion in investments in…
By Blake Brittain (Reuters) – Tesla sued Australian company Cap-XX in Texas federal court on Friday, claiming its supercapacitors used for storing energy in electric-vehicle batteries infringe two U.S. patents owned by a Tesla subsidiary. Tesla CEO Elon Musk pledged in 2014 not to “initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to…
By Niket Nishant (Reuters) -U.S. mortgage data vendor Black Knight will sell its Optimal Blue business for $700 million, shedding a second unit to soothe regulatory concerns over its proposed buyout by NYSE-owner Intercontinental Exchange. Canadian business software firm Constellation Software will buy the unit, provided ICE closes its takeover, the companies said on Monday,…
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Monday the United States was making good progress in bringing inflation down and she did not expect the U.S. economy to enter into a recession. Yellen, speaking to Bloomberg TV from India during a meeting of Group of 20 finance officials, said slower…
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Inflationary expectations for the year ahead among Russian households climbed to 11.1% in July from 10.2% in June, the central bank said on Monday, just days before it is widely expected to raise its key interest rate from 7.5%. A Reuters poll on Monday suggested the Bank of Russia would hike rates…
