By Abhirup Roy SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk on Wednesday set new targets for artificial intelligence products including self-driving software and using humanoid robots in factories, though he acknowledged he’s been optimistic before. The electric vehicle maker is in early talks with a major automaker to license its full self-driving technology,…
By Clara Denina and Sarah McFarlane LONDON (Reuters) – Major brands, including the investment arm of the IKEA group, are following automakers’ lead in snapping up stakes in suppliers of raw materials and energy, seeking greater control over their production to meet emissions targets and limit disruptions. After global supply chains buckled under pressure from…
By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) – When U.S. soldier Travis King sprinted across the border into North Korea from the South this week, he disappeared into a North Korea where lingering COVID-19 concerns and restrictions have made the already secretive country more isolated than ever. During the pandemic North Korea stopped all international travel and…
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Sonali Desai Japan’s June inflation data hopped onto a widening trend for price pressures to start showing signs of peaking, although that provided limited cheer to investors in Asia – as did China’s latest measures to stimulate consumption. Both factors softened some of…
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Incoming foreign direct investment to Indonesia grew 14.2% on a yearly basis in rupiah terms in the April-June quarter, the investment ministry said, the slowest growth pace in one and a half years. FDI was worth 186.3 trillion rupiah in the second quarter, or $12.59 billion, using the conversion provided by the…
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s foreign exchange regulator said on Friday it will comprehensively use policy measures to stabilise market expectations, at a time when the yuan currency faces renewed downside pressure. China’s currency has lost about 4% to the dollar this year, one of the worst performing Asian currencies, pressured by widening yield differentials with…
By Prerana Bhat BENGALURU (Reuters) – The European Central Bank will raise interest rates by 25 basis points on July 27, according to all economists in a Reuters poll, a slight majority of whom were now also expecting another hike in September. Inflation in the euro zone has almost halved, down to 5.5% in June…
(Reuters) – Chinese hacking teams have been blamed by Western intelligence agencies and cybersecurity groups for digital intrusion campaigns across the world, targeting everything from government and military organisations to corporations and media groups. Cybersecurity firms believe many of those groups are backed by China’s government. China’s authorities have consistently denied any form of state-sponsored…
By Satoshi Sugiyama TOKYO (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan will hold steady its policy including its yield control scheme at next week’s meeting, more than three-quarters of economists polled by Reuters said, as policymakers stress more time is needed for inflation stability. BOJ Governor Kazuo Ueda has signalled his resolve to maintain its massive…
By Jonathan Landay and Charlotte Greenfield WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A U.S.-funded audit of Afghanistan’s Taliban-run central bank has failed to win Washington’s backing for a return of bank assets from a $3.5 billion Swiss-based trust fund, said two U.S. officials and a former U.S. official, a move that would help ease the country’s financial crisis….
