By Simon Jessop and Sinead Cruise LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's biggest bank HSBC has partnered with Google to finance fast-growing climate technology firms behind some of the world's most promising solutions to global climate change, executives from both firms told…
By Nick Carey and Joseph White (Reuters) - While automakers and suppliers are betting big on future demand for electric vehicles, a near-term global slowdown is causing pain, including bankruptcies, scrapped initial public offerings and production cuts. Investment in capacity…
By Sheila Dang AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Despite the buzz over generative artificial intelligence last year, the technology's impact on the advertising business of Alphabet and Meta Platforms is likely to be muted when the companies report fourth-quarter results this…
(This Jan. 23 story has been refiled to correct name to Diane, not Diana, in paragraph 29) (Reuters) - Stock markets in China and Hong Kong have slumped to multi-year lows this week as confidence in the world's second-biggest economy…
By David Randall and Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK (Reuters) - Some investors are already gaming out how the U.S. 2024 presidential election could impact markets, as former president Donald Trump’s victory in the New Hampshire Republican primary brings him closer…
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia accused Ukraine on Wednesday of deliberately shooting down a Russian military transport plane carrying 65 captured Ukrainian soldiers to a prisoner exchange in what it called a barbaric act of terrorism that had killed a total of…
By Chibuike Oguh NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft's stock market value crossed the $3 trillion milestone for the first time on Wednesday, retaining its place as the world's second most valuable company, just behind Apple. Microsoft and Apple shares have…
By Christy Santhosh (Reuters) -Tyson Foods has dropped CVS Health as its pharmacy benefit manager and replaced it with Rightway, the startup said on Wednesday, to manage drug benefits for the meatpacker's 175,000 employees. Three pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) —…
By Nia Williams (Reuters) -Six people were killed after a small plane carrying global miner Rio Tinto's workers crashed near Fort Smith in Canada's remote Northwest Territories (NWT) on Tuesday, the NWT Coroner Service said on Wednesday. Four passengers and…
By Trevor Hunnicutt, Nandita Bose and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden is getting the opponent he thinks he was made to beat in 2024. Donald Trump's decisive victory in the first two Republican presidential contests in…