(Reuters) – Chicago Federal Reserve Bank President Austan Goolsbee on Tuesday said he sees some “warning signs” of weakening in the economy, adding that the U.S. central bank’s goal is to get inflation down without stressing the labor market. “I see some warning signs the real economy is weakening,” Goolsbee told CNBC in an interview on…
(Reuters) – General Motors on Tuesday posted a slower rise in second-quarter U.S. sales, hurt by lower fleet sales to daily rental companies and a cyber incident at CDK that impacted dealers across the country. Overall sales rose about 0.6% to 696,086 units, compared with an increase of about 19% in the same period last…
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – The former senior Apple lawyer who avoided prison time after pleading guilty to insider trading must pay a $1.15 million fine in a related U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission civil case, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday. U.S. District Judge William Martini in Newark, New Jersey, said that while Gene…
By Tim Hepher, Shivani Tanna and Mike Stone (Reuters) -Boeing agreed to buy back Spirit AeroSystems for $4.7 billion in stock and Airbus moved to take on the supplier’s loss-making Europe-focused activities, sending shares in all three companies higher in a rare transatlantic break-up. The near-two-decade independence of the world’s largest standalone aerostructures company ended…
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Keith Gill, the investor known as “Roaring Kitty” who helped spur the meme stock mania of 2021, was sued by GameStop investors who said they lost money through his “pump-and-dump” scheme for the videogame retailer. A proposed class action accusing Gill of securities fraud was filed on Friday…
(Reuters) – Google said on Monday it would make it mandatory for advertisers to disclose election ads that use digitally altered content to depict real or realistic-looking people or events, its latest step to battle election misinformation. The update to the disclosure requirements under the political content policy requires marketers to select a checkbox in…
By Jack Queen (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on Monday that Donald Trump cannot be prosecuted for his official acts as president plunges a major criminal case against him into doubt and all but assures he will not face trial before the Nov. 5 election. Here are some takeaways from the decision: PRESIDENTS…
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Walmart settled its lawsuit against Capital One over their credit card partnership, which had made Capital One the exclusive issuer of Walmart-branded consumer credit cards before ending last month. The case was dismissed on Thursday by U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla in Manhattan, after the companies resolved…
By Nathan Layne and Trevor Hunnicutt (Reuters) – President Joe Biden is hunkered down with aides at Camp David for several days to get ready to debate rival Donald Trump, who is eschewing traditional preparation and instead holding informal policy discussions between campaign stops. The face-off in Atlanta, at 9 p.m. ET on Thursday (0100…
(Reuters) – Microsoft-backed OpenAI has acquired search and database analytics firm Rockset for an undisclosed sum, the ChatGPT maker said on Friday. A technology Rockset offers called vector search has benefited from increased adoption as more applications use artificial intelligence to power recommendation engines, voice assistants, chatbots and detect anomalies. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT Rockset said…
