Dec 28, 2022
Sam Bankman-Fried to enter plea in FTX fraud case

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sam Bankman-Fried is expected to enter a plea next week to criminal charges he defrauded investors and looted billions of dollars in customer funds at his failed FTX cryptocurrency exchange. The 30-year-old is…

Dec 27, 2022
Double-digit U.S. home price growth streak skids to an end

By Dan Burns (Reuters) - Annual price growth in the increasingly fragile U.S. housing market slid into the single digits in October for the first time in about two years when mortgage rates that month surged above 7% and further…

Dec 23, 2022
U.S. orders Mastercard to stop blocking competing payment networks

(Reuters) -The Biden administration on Friday said it was ordering Mastercard Inc to stop blocking the use of competing networks to process debit payments. Under a proposed order, Mastercard would have to start providing competing payment networks with the customer…

Dec 22, 2022
BMW to make Solid Power’s battery cells under expanded agreement

(Reuters) - Solid Power Inc said on Wednesday it will offer some intellectual property rights related to its solid-state batteries to BMW and allow production of the battery cells at the automaker's facilities in Germany. Colorado-based Solid Power will license…

Dec 20, 2022
Tesla falls on growing angst over Musk’s focus on Twitter

(Reuters) - Shares of Tesla Inc fell nearly 6% on Tuesday after a string of brokerages cut their price targets on the electric-vehicle maker's stock, citing the risk from Elon Musk's Twitter distraction. Tesla's shares hit a more than two-year…

Dec 19, 2022
Musk’s poll results: Elon should step down as Twitter CEO

By Nivedita Balu (Reuters) -Twitter users voted decisively in a poll for Elon Musk to step down as chief executive of the social media platform, a backlash against the billionaire less than two months after he took over in what…