By Nicole Jao NEW YORK (Reuters) -Oil prices settled lower on Friday, and posted their steepest weekly loss in three months as investors weighed weak U.S. jobs data and possible timing of a Federal Reserve interest rate cut. Brent crude futures for July settled 71 cents lower, or 0.85%, to $82.96 a barrel. U.S. West […]
29-Year-Old Tesla Worker Who Got Fired Says He Slept In Parking Lot, Showered At Factory And Ate Microwaved Dinner: ‘Sacrificed A Lot For The Company’
Anan Ashraf | April 30, 2024
Nico Murillo was part of the large group of Tesla employees who were laid off by the EV giant earlier this month. Day Of The Layoff: In a post on Linkedin, Murillo recounted his experience starting from the morning of April 15 when he noticed that his work account was deactivated but dismissed it thinking […]
Top 4 Industrials Stocks That May Collapse This Quarter
Avi Kapoor | April 29, 2024
As of April 29, 2024, four stocks in the industrials sector could be flashing a real warning to investors who value momentum as a key criteria in their trading decisions. The RSI is a momentum indicator, which compares a stock’s strength on days when prices go up to its strength on days when prices go […]
US probes Tesla recall of 2 million vehicles over Autopilot, citing concerns
Reuters | April 26, 2024
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. auto safety regulators said on Friday they have opened an investigation into whether Tesla’s recall of more than 2 million vehicles announced in December to install new Autopilot safeguards is adequate following a series of crashes. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said it opened the probe after […]
Top deals in the global mining sector (April 25)
Reuters | April 26, 2024
(Corrects APRIL 25 Factbox to show Nippon Steel-U.S Steel is a proposed deal awaiting regulatory approval, bullet point 4) (Reuters) -BHP Group has bid $38.8 billion for smaller rival Anglo American, offering a deal to forge the world’s biggest copper miner. Here is a list of some previous big-ticket deals in the mining sector: – […]
Biogen cost cuts drive profit beat, as Alzheimer’s drug off to slow start
Reuters | April 24, 2024
By Manas Mishra and Sriparna Roy (Reuters) -Biogen reported a quarterly profit that topped Wall Street estimates, helped by cost cutting, as the launch of its new Alzheimer’s disease drug remained sluggish. Sales of Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi, recorded by Japanese partner Eisai, were just $19 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ tempered expectations of […]
Wall St stocks end higher with major corporate earnings in view
Reuters | April 22, 2024
By Chibuike Oguh NEW YORK (Reuters) -Wall Street stocks ended higher on Monday following a market sell-off in previous sessions as investors eyed a busy week for quarterly results from key companies that would provide a glimpse of the U.S. economy’s health. The benchmark S&P 500 and the Nasdaq rebounded from a decline over the […]
Worsening US debt outlook seen more in gold and bitcoin than in bonds
Reuters | April 19, 2024
(Reuters) – Concern about the rapidly rising U.S. government debt is partly behind recent surges in gold prices and bitcoin, even as the Treasury market so far remains relatively sanguine about the country’s fiscal path, market observers say. The U.S. budget deficit widened to $1.7 trillion in fiscal year 2023 and is on track to […]
Brazil’s Plans To Drill For Oil In The Amazon Hit Stiff Indigenous Resistance
Reuters | April 18, 2024
By Marta Nogueira and Fabio Teixeira OIAPOQUE, Brazil (Reuters) – State-run energy firm Petrobras has hit growing resistance from Indigenous groups and government agencies to its premier exploration project, which would open the most promising part of Brazil’s northern coast to oil drilling. Environmental agency Ibama denied Petrobras a license for exploratory drilling offshore in […]
Analysis-Wall Street wants answers from Musk on Tesla’s affordable car
Reuters | April 17, 2024
By Hyunjoo Jin, Norihiko Shirouzu and Chris Kirkham (Reuters) – Elon Musk has kept investors hanging since he issued cryptic social posts following an exclusive April 5 Reuters report that Tesla had scrapped its plans for a $25,000 “Model 2” electric vehicle. “Reuters is lying,” Musk wrote in one post that day, without identifying any […]