By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK (Reuters) – The dollar rose to seven-week peaks on Thursday as another round of solid economic data further pared back bets on easing by the Federal Reserve, with the greenback also boosted by expectations of a U.S. debt ceiling deal to a avert potential default. The dollar index, a measure…
By Katie Paul and Stephen Nellis NEW YORK (Reuters) -Meta Platforms on Thursday shared new details on its data center projects to better support artificial intelligence work, including a custom chip “family” being developed in-house. The Facebook and Instagram owner said in a series of blog posts that it designed a first-generation chip in 2020…
By Jonathan Stempel and Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -The young entrepreneur Charlie Javice has been indicted on charges of defrauding JPMorgan Chase & Co, the largest U.S. bank, into buying her now-shuttered college financial aid startup Frank. A four-count grand jury indictment made public on Thursday in Manhattan federal court charges Javice with securities…
By Timothy Aeppel CHICAGO (Reuters) -For Matthew Prange, it’s easy to see why the inflation surge of the last two years has proven so difficult for the Federal Reserve to tame. “When prices go up, it tends to stick,” said Prange, who oversees $3 billion worth of purchases of electronic parts, plastics, and metal as…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen reaffirmed the strength and soundness of the country’s banking system in a meeting with bank CEOs on Thursday, a Treasury Department statement said. During the meeting with more than two dozen CEOs and executives convened by the Bank Policy Institute, Yellen also discussed the “urgent need” for…
By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) – Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX is seeking to claw back more than $240 million it paid for stock trading platform Embed, saying former FTX insiders did no investigation before buying the essentially worthless bug-ridden software platform. FTX filed three lawsuits late Wednesday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware targeting…
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee said on Thursday he accepted the State Department’s invitation to view a classified cable related to the August 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan and would “pause” attempts to enforce a subpoena to obtain it. “In light of this invitation,…
By Scott DiSavino NEW YORK (Reuters) -Oil prices slid about 1% on Thursday after solid U.S. economic data spurred the dollar to reach a two-month high on growing expectations the U.S. Federal Reserve could raise interest rates again in June. Brent futures fell $1.10, or 1.4%, to settle at $75.86 a barrel. U.S. West Texas…
By Tom Polansek MANHATTAN, Kansas (Reuters) – Wheat yield potential in Kansas was estimated at 30.0 bushels per acre (bpa) on Thursday by crop scouts on an annual Wheat Quality Council tour, the lowest since at least 2000. The figure in the biggest U.S. winter wheat producer is below the five-year crop tour average of…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Air Force intends to award a contract in 2024 for its sixth-generation fighter jet as it races to retain its edge against rapid advances in Chinese military technology, the service said on Thursday. Lockheed Martin Corp, Boeing Co and Northrop Grumman Corp are expected to compete for the Next Generation Air…
