U.S. chipmaker Broadcom secured EU antitrust approval on Wednesday for its $61 billion proposed acquisition of cloud computing firm VMware after offering remedies to help rival Marvell Technology. The deal, Broadcom’s largest ever, will help the chipmaker diversify into enterprise software. Broadcom offered Marvell and other rivals interoperability commitments related to its Fibre Channel Host-Bus Adapters (FC […]
The U.S. electric vehicle market is growing, but not fast enough during the latest quarter to prevent unsold EVs from stacking up at some automakers’ dealerships or to allow Tesla to avoid new price cuts, according to analysts and industry data. Rising inventories and price-cutting could represent only a short-term pause in EV market growth. […]
Lucid Group said its second-quarter production dropped from the previous three months while deliveries stayed flat, sending the shares of the luxury electric-vehicle maker down about 6% on Wednesday. The Saudi Arabia-backed startup has been struggling to ramp up production in the face of supply chain issues, while a price war started by market leader Tesla in […]
In many developing countries health financing is not only inefficient and insufficient, it’s inequitable: People in developing countries pay over half a trillion dollars annually out-of-pocket for health services, which pushes about 100 million people into extreme poverty each year. Policies regarding who contributes and how much, how resources are pooled to spread financial risk, what services are […]
Artificial intelligence is expected to be widely used by central banks as it brings considerable cost saving and efficiency benefits. However, as this column argues, it also raises difficult questions around which tasks can safely be outsourced to AI and what needs to stay in the hands of human decision makers. Senior decision makers will […]
Reaching net zero emissions by 2050 will require an 80% reduction in global fossil fuel extraction compared with 2021 levels. This column estimates the macroeconomic consequences for fossil fuel-producing countries of large declines in extraction, based on a new dataset identifying 35 episodes of major and persistent, exogenous declines in extraction activity. These declines lead […]
UBS’s flagship global wealth management business on Thursday announced a raft of management changes triggered by the Swiss bank’s takeover of Credit Suisse. Several former Credit Suisse managers have got jobs in the changes which affect roughly 180 executives and mainly take effect from July 17. Former Credit Suisse executive Michael Marr will become the head […]
Twitter has threatened to sue Meta Platforms over its new Threads platform in a letter sent to the Facebook parent’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg by Twitter’s lawyer Alex Spiro. Meta, which launched Threads on Wednesday and has logged more than 30 million sign ups, looks to take on Elon Musk’s Twitter by leveraging Instagram’s billions of users. Spiro, in his letter, accused […]
Electric-vehicle maker Tesla rolled out a new program globally allowing buyers to earn extra incentives through referrals from existing customers, a strategy long used by traditional automakers to boost sales. The incentive, which Tesla dubbed as “Refer and Earn” on its websites, is equivalent to about $500 in cashback for buyers in the U.S. who purchase […]
To date, climate change policy actions have primarily been considered from technical and financing perspectives. To make change happen, governance aspects also matter – institutional capabilities, accountability, as well as political economy constraints. This blog is part of a new workstream on political economy challenges and potential avenues for addressing them – with a focus […]
