By Michael Erman (Reuters) – Novavax will only be able to offer a COVID-19 vaccine in the United States this autumn if regulators accept the shot it has started manufacturing that targets a variant that was dominant earlier this year, the company said. Novavax’s updated vaccine targets a variant called JN.1, which is in line…
(Reuters) – Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman will support Donald Trump as the former president looks to return to the White House, Axios reported on Friday. Schwarzman, one of the biggest political donors on Wall Street, plans to donate to Trump and various Republican Senate candidates, the report said, citing a statement from the CEO. Long…
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Tesla has cut output of its best-selling Model Y electric car by a double-digit percentage number at its Shanghai plant since March, according to industry data and a source. The move is aimed at addressing weakening demand for the U.S. automaker’s aged model in China, its second largest market into which a…
By Bernard Orr and Ben Blanchard BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) -China’s military started its second day of war games around Taiwan on Friday, with drills to test their ability to “seize power” and control key areas, exercises it has said were launched to punish Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te. The two days of drills in the Taiwan Strait…
By Blake Brittain (Reuters) – Chipmaker Micron Technology owes computer-memory company Netlist $445 million in damages for violating Netlist’s patent rights in memory-module technology for high-performance computing, a U.S. jury said on Thursday. Jurors in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas agreed with Netlist that Micron’s semiconductor-memory products infringe two Netlist…
By Maria Martinez and Christian Kraemer BERLIN (Reuters) – The implementation of the second pillar of the global minimum tax deal is Germany’s priority and further ideas should not be discussed until there is an agreement on the first pillar, German Finance Minister Christian Lindner said on Friday. “In the second pillar we already have…
(Reuters) -Health tech firm Medtronic beat Wall Street estimates for quarterly profit and revenue on Thursday, as a pickup in surgical volumes at hospitals lifted demand for its medical devices. Investor expectations around the financial performance of medical devices makers have grown lately, owing to a resurgence in demand as people, especially older adults, opted…
By Ankika Biswas and Lisa Pauline Mattackal (Reuters) – The tech-heavy Nasdaq and the benchmark S&P 500 opened at record highs on Thursday as chip stocks rallied after Nvidia’s upbeat revenue forecast, but persistent worries about U.S. inflation kept market exuberance in check. The AI chip leader’s stock opened above the $1,000 mark for the…
LONDON (Reuters) -Tobacco companies still actively target young people via social media, sports and music festivals and new, flavoured products, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday, accusing companies of trying to hook a new generation on nicotine. Amid ever-stricter regulation targeting cigarettes, big tobacco companies and new entrants have begun offering smoking alternatives…
By Sarah N. Lynch, David Shepardson and Mike Scarcella WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department and a group of 30 states and the District of Columbia Thursday sued to break up Live Nation, arguing the big concert promoter and its Ticketmaster unit illegally inflated concert ticket prices and hurt artists. “It is time to break…
