The New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq said on Thursday they would cancel erroneous trades in the shares of IT solutions provider CDW Corp, which briefly plunged as much as 96% to $7 in premarket trading. They would bust all trades in the stock between 04:00 a.m. ET and 04:22 a.m. ET, at or below $162.85, […]
General Motors has said it will have the capacity to build 1 million electric vehicles in North America by 2025, but a slow ramp-up of its three U.S. battery plants could limit actual EV production to less than 600,000 at mid-decade, according to a forecast and analysis prepared for Reuters. Building more than half a million […]
Charles Schwab Corp is looking to raise up to $2.5 billion through a debt offering, the brokerage said on Thursday as more companies aim to benefit from investors trying to capitalize on a spike in yields. The Texas-based company will raise the debt in two parts, via notes due in 2029 and 2034 and will use […]
Billionaire real estate investor Sam Zell has died at the age of 81 due to complications from a recent illness, according to statements from the two real estate investment trusts (REITs) that he chaired. Known for his bets on distressed assets and for popularizing the REIT structure in the 1990s, Zell founded the company that […]
A lack of resources means battery electric vehicles (BEV) cannot be the auto sector’s only answer to climate change, Toyota Motor Corp’s top scientist said Thursday, warning that focusing on BEVs could lead some drivers to hold onto polluting vehicles. Some investors and environmental groups have long criticised Toyota for being slow to embrace BEVs, saying it has […]
India on Wednesday unveiled an expanded incentive scheme to attract big-ticket investments in IT hardware manufacturing, doubling the amount to $2 billion as it aims to spur domestic production of laptops and tablets. The programme, which also covers personal computers and servers, is expected to benefit global and Indian companies such as Dell, Wistron Corp, […]
The swift growth of artificial intelligence technology could put the future of humanity at risk, according to most Americans surveyed in a Reuters/Ipsos poll published on Wednesday. More than two-thirds of Americans are concerned about the negative effects of AI and 61% believe it could threaten civilization. Since OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot became the fastest growing application of […]
An investor consortium including U.S. buyout firm Blackstone and Thomson Reuters sold 33 million shares in the London Stock Exchange Group worth about 2.7 billion pounds ($3.41 billion), a bookrunner said on Wednesday. The placing of shares, which was upsized from 28 million, was at a price of 8,050 pence per share, a discount of about 5% to LSEG’s […]
The former chief executive of the First Republic Bank Michael Roffler blamed the bank’s collapse on the contagion from the failures of other regional banks and said regulators did not express concerns regarding the bank’s strategy, liquidity, or management performance. A total of over $100 billion in deposits were withdrawn from the bank over the […]
Alphabet Inc’s Google on Tuesday said it would delete accounts that had remained unused for two years starting December, in a bid to prevent security threats including hacks. The company said that if a Google account had not been used or signed into for at least two years, it might delete the account and content across Google Workspace, […]
