By Echo Wang (Reuters) – In the middle of last week, Moody’s Investors Service Inc delivered alarming news to SVB Financial Group, the parent of Silicon Valley Bank: the ratings firm was preparing to downgrade the bank’s credit.That phone call, described by two people familiar with the situation, began the process toward Friday’s spectacular collapse…
(Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers met with the Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation on Friday to discuss the collapse of SVB Financial Group, Coindesk reported on Saturday citing a source. Democratic U.S. Representative Maxine Waters held briefings with officials from the two regulators and the Treasury Department, hours after the startup-focused SVB’s collapse, the…
By David French, Echo Wang and Alun John (Reuters) – Startup-focused lender SVB Financial Group became the largest bank to fail since the 2008 financial crisis on Friday, in a sudden collapse that roiled global markets, left billions of dollars belonging to companies and investors stranded. California banking regulators closed the bank, which did business…
(Reuters) – Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk has exercised options to acquire 10,500 shares of the electric-vehicle maker, U.S. securities filing showed on Friday. (This story has been corrected to say that Musk has exercised option to buy Tesla shares and removes reference to $50,000 in headline and paragraph 1) (Reporting by Akanksha…
By Lananh Nguyen and Pete Schroeder NEW YORK (Reuters) -Greg Becker, the chief executive of SVB Financial Group, sent a video message to employees acknowledging the “incredibly difficult” 48 hours leading up to the collapse of its Silicon Valley Bank on Friday. “It’s with an incredibly heavy heart that I’m here to deliver this message,”…
By Hannah Lang (Reuters) – Greg Becker, the chief executive officer who presided over the collapsed Silicon Valley Bank, joined the company three decades ago as a loan officer. The executive cut his teeth during the dotcom bubble and later steered the startup-focused lender in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis. He became…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Ford Motor Co said on Friday it was on track to resume production of F-150 Lightning vehicles on Monday after the No. 2 U.S. automaker recalled 18 electric trucks due to a battery cell manufacturing defect. The recall announced Friday stemmed from production over a four-week period starting at…
(Reuters) – The Biden administration is working to further tighten restrictions on exporting semiconductor manufacturing gear to China, Bloomberg News reported on Friday citing people familiar with the situation. The government has briefed U.S. companies about the plan and told them it expects to announce the restrictions as early as next month, the report said….
By Sinéad Carew and Amruta Khandekar (Reuters) – Wall Street’s indexes ended down more than 1% on Friday after investors ran for the exits as they feared for the health of U.S. banks after the failure of a high-profile lender to the technology sector, overshadowing the February jobs report. California banking regulators said they closed…
By David Shepardson and Valerie Insinna (Reuters) -The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday approved Boeing to resume deliveries of its widebody 787 Dreamliner next week. The agency halted 787 deliveries on Feb. 23 due to a data analysis error related to the jet’s forward pressure bulkhead, which Boeing Co found after reviewing certification records. The…
