Новости за 27.03.2024

Concerns about the risks tied to developing regions prevent many clean-energy investors from putting proportionally more money into those markets, but amplify potential returns for those who do, several investment firm executives said Tuesday.

The South Dakota governor on Donald Trump’s shortlist faces scrutiny for everything from her abortion stance to her new smile.

H&M posted forecast-beating earnings as well-received spring collections pushed sales higher during February., and said its target of a 10% operating margin for 2024 remained.

It may be time to lock in higher bond yields with rate cycles peaking in developed markets, Lombard Odier said, as it remains overweight on fixed income.

UBS and Apollo Global Management have finalized a deal to offload Credit Suisse’s former securitized products business, as the Swiss bank continues its integration after the takeover.

Elon Musk’s artificial-intelligence company will make its Grok chatbot available to all premium subscribers of social-media platform X.

China’s industrial profits returned to growth at the start of the year, adding to signs that the world’s second-largest economy is on stronger footing.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday met with U.S. businessmen and scholars, according to the state broadcaster, as the world’s second-largest economy seeks to attract overseas investment and prop up its ailing economy.

The country was the first to close its border in the pandemic. It still hasn’t fully emerged.

Without telehealth, one in seven women would have to drive over 200 miles to the nearest provider.

Companies are seeing their China trade diminish amid geopolitical tensions and the country’s weak economy.

The adaptation of Liu Cixin’s celebrated science-fiction novel earned generally positive reviews in China, but some took issue with how the country is depicted and the lack of Chinese actors.

Visa, Mastercard and the largest U.S. credit-card issuing banks agreed to a settlement with merchants over the fees charged for swiping credit cards.

Shares of Trump’s social-media company surged 16% on their first day of trading, giving the early-stage company a market value of roughly $8 billion and boosting the presidential candidate’s fortune.

Latin American immigrants are starting businesses at more than twice the rate of the U.S. population as a whole, an analysis of Census Bureau data shows.

Merck is making a big bet that its new drug approved in the U.S. for a potentially fatal lung disease will fill a revenue hole expected when one of its patents expires in 2028.

Major U.S. stock indexes declined, with the S&P 500, Nasdaq and Dow industrials retreating 0.3%, 0.4% and 0.1%, respectively.

Alibaba abandoned plans to list its logistics arm, dealing a blow to Hong Kong’s beleaguered IPO market.

J&J is in talks to acquire medical-device maker Shockwave, which had a market value of around $11 billion before news of the negotiations became public.

A major Baltimore bridge collapsed after a large containership plowed into it, leaving six people who were working on the bridge presumed dead and disrupting one of the busiest ports in the U.S.

British judges ruled that WikiLeaks founder and former hacker Julian Assange can’t immediately be extradited to the U.S. to face spying charges.

A probe into the collapse will include whether contaminated fuel played a role in the cargo ship losing power and crashing into the span, according to people familiar with the investigation.

SK Hynix, the exclusive partner to Nvidia’s most advanced graphic-processor units, plans to invest roughly $4 billion to build an advanced chip-packaging facility in Indiana.

The Supreme Court appeared likely to preserve access to the abortion pill mifepristone after arguments in which justices suggested that protecting doctors who oppose abortion wasn’t enough justification to roll it back.

A Russian court extended by three months the detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, held on an allegation that he, the Journal and the U.S. government vehemently deny.