By Anirban Sen and Milana Vinn (Reuters) -Google parent Alphabet has been talking to its advisers about the possibility of making an offer for HubSpot, an online marketing software company with a market value of $35 billion, people familiar with the matter said. If Alphabet moves ahead with a bid, it would be a rare…
By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden will speak by phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday, three days after Israel launched an attack in which seven World Central Kitchen aid workers were killed, a U.S. official said. The White House has described Biden as outraged and heartbroken by the attack…
By Herbert Lash and Kevin Buckland NEW YORK/TOKYO (Reuters) – Gold prices hit fresh all-time peaks on Monday with stocks on Wall Street closing mixed as optimism that the Federal Reserve was near to cutting interest rates faded due to a strong U.S. economy that rebuts the need for cuts anytime soon. Chinese shares led…
By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli strikes killed 77 Palestinians in Gaza in the past 24 hours, health authorities said on Sunday, as Egypt hosted an Israeli delegation for a new round of talks in a bid to secure a truce with Gaza’s Hamas rulers. The Israeli military said it killed a senior Islamic Jihad…
By David Randall NEW YORK (Reuters) -After a stellar start to the year for stocks, investors are on guard for potential bumps in the second quarter as they gauge whether the Federal Reserve delivers on an expected interest rate cut by June and turn their focus on the health of upcoming earnings. The S&P 500…
By Humeyra Pamuk and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. in recent days authorized the transfer of billions of dollars worth of bombs and fighter jets to Israel, two sources familiar with the effort said on Friday, even as Washington publicly expresses concerns about an anticipated Israeli military offensive in Rafah. The new arms packages…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Biden administration on Friday revised rules aimed at making it harder for China to access U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) chips and chipmaking tools, part of an effort to hobble Beijing’s chipmaking industry over national security concerns. The rules, released in October, seek to halt shipments to China of more advanced AI chips…
(Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives has set a strict ban on congressional staffers’ use of Microsoft’s Copilot generative AI assistant, Axios reported on Friday. “The Microsoft Copilot application has been deemed by the Office of Cybersecurity to be a risk to users due to the threat of leaking House data to non-House approved cloud…
By Granth Vanaik and Doyinsola Oladipo (Reuters) -Cruise operator Carnival said on Wednesday it will probably not be sailing through the Red Sea region for the rest of this year and early next year given persistent hostilities across the key shipping route. Even though 2024 is expected to be a record year for cruise travel,…
By Shariq Khan NEW YORK (Reuters) -Oil prices fell for the second consecutive session on Wednesday as the dollar strengthened and government data showed a surprise jump in U.S. crude and gasoline stocks. Brent crude futures for May shed 16 cents, or 0.2%, to settle at $86.09 a barrel while the more actively traded June…
