Mercedes rejects claims it prevented unionising at US plant
BERLIN (Reuters) - German premium carmaker Mercedes-Benz on Wednesday rejected claims that it has been trying to prevent the formation of a union at its Alabama plant. The group "respects the decision of the employees to establish a trade union org...
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US wholesale inventories drop by unrevised 0.4% in March
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. wholesale inventories fell in March, confirming that inventory investment was a drag on economic growth in the first quarter. The Commerce Department's Census Bureau said on Wednesday that wholesale inventories fell 0.4%...
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Reddit shares soar as earnings show advertising, AI licensing revenue potential
(Reuters) - Reddit shares soared 14% on Wednesday after the social media firm floored investors with strong revenue growth and improving profitability in the first earnings since its market debut. The company surprised Wall Street late on Tuesday w...
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Fox profit beats estimates as lower costs help offset ad revenue weakness
(Reuters) - Fox Corp beat Wall Street estimates for third-quarter profit on Wednesday, due to lower expenses, even as its revenue tumbled more than 15% on weakness in its advertising business. The media company benefited from a near 25% fall in ope...
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Teva Pharm Q1 profit misses estimates, revenue risea
By Steven Scheer JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Teva Pharmaceutical Industries reported a smaller than expected rise in first-quarter profit citing higher impairments of tangible assets, while sales of copycat medicines and its branded drugs to treat migrai...
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SpaceX's unit Starlink secures Indonesia operating permit
JAKARTA (Reuters) - The satellite unit of Elon Musk's SpaceX, Starlink, has secured a permit to operate in Indonesia, its communications minister told Reuters on Wednesday. Starlink had obtained a permit to operate as an internet service provider f...
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Emerson Electric boosts 2024 profit view on measurement tools demand
(Reuters) - Emerson Electric raised its full-year profit forecast on Wednesday on steady demand in its unit that makes valves, regulators and actuators, sending the engineering solutions firm's shares up about 2% in premarket trade. The company's m...
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Uber shares tumble as second-quarter forecast disappoints
By Yuvraj Malik (Reuters) -Uber forecast second-quarter gross bookings below expectations after missing the target for the first three months on Wednesday, sending it shares down nearly 7% before the bell. The weakness in a key metric that indicates th...
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Wells Fargo names Fernando Rivas as co-CEO of corporate and investment banking
(Reuters) - Wells Fargo on Wednesday named Fernando Rivas as the co-CEO of corporate and investment banking (CIB). (Reporting by Manya Saini in Bengaluru; Editing by Krishna Chandra Eluri)
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Austria's Raiffeisen drops bid to buy Russian tycoon industry stake
By Alexandra Schwarz-Goerlich and John O'Donnell (Reuters) -Austrian lender Raiffeisen Bank has abandoned a bid to buy a 1.5 billion euro ($1.6 billion) industrial stake of a Russian tycoon, following pressure from Washington to scrap the deal. "In rec...
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Biden to unveil $3.3 billion Microsoft AI investment in battleground Wisconsin
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden will visit the political battleground state of Wisconsin on Wednesday to announce plans by Microsoft Corp to build a $3.3 billion high-tech data center that will create thousands of jobs, ...
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Shopify forecasts downbeat quarterly revenue growth, shares sink
(Reuters) -Canadian e-commerce platform Shopify forecast its slowest quarterly revenue growth in two years against the backdrop of an uncertain economy and tepid consumer spending, sending its U.S. shares slumping 19% in premarket trading. The company ...
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Futures muted as investors seek clues on US rate path
(Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures were muted on Wednesday after a strong run of gains that pushed the benchmark S&P 500 to over three-week highs, as investors sought more clarity on the Federal Reserve's plans for interest rate cuts. The S&P 500...
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Intel flags revenue hit as U.S. revokes certain export licenses to Chinese customer
(Reuters) - Chipmaker Intel said on Wednesday the U.S. Department of Commerce was revoking certain export licenses for its consumer-related items to a customer in China, a move that would impact its second-quarter revenue. Intel did not disclose th...
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EU tariffs on Chinese EVs could backfire, hobble Green Deal, BMW CEO says
By Nick Carey and Christina Amann LONDON (Reuters) - BMW's CEO on Wednesday warned against imposing EU import duties on electric vehicles from Chinese automakers, saying it could upend the bloc's Green Deal industrial plan and harm German automaker...
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Bill Hwang's trial begins over collapse of his $36 billion Archegos fund
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sung Kook "Bill" Hwang's criminal racketeering trial over the collapse of Archegos Capital Management begins on Wednesday with the selection of jurors who will decide if he and a deputy broke the law in a massive stock scheme t...
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Morning bid: Stocks buoyant as Sweden cuts, oil skids
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan Wall Street looks to have brushed off the latest hawkish Federal Reserve noises and Disney's outsize swoon, with European bourses stalking new records as Sweden becomes the latest G10 c...
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Korean Air sells five jets to U.S. aerospace firm Sierra Nevada
SEOUL (Reuters) - Korean Air will sell five of its planes to U.S. aerospace firm Sierra Nevada Corporation, the airline said in an exchange filing on Wednesday. Sierra Nevada recently won a $13 billion U.S. Air Force contract to develop a successor...
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Taiwan April exports up less than expected, but shipments to US hit record
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's exports rose less than expected in April, hurt by weak demand from China although robust demand for artificial intelligence-related products had shipments to the United States surging to a record. The Finance Ministry sa...
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Europe's STOXX 600 hits record high on earnings-driven optimism
By Ankika Biswas (Reuters) -Europe's benchmark stock index hit a record high on Wednesday, on continued cheer over strong earnings from the likes of beer maker Anheuser-Busch Inbev and Germany's Siemens Energy, while investors also mulled the fate of m...
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Puma returns to sales growth in Americas despite 'volatile' market
By Linda Pasquini and Isabel Demetz (Reuters) - German sportswear brand Puma's first-quarter sales met expectations on Wednesday, sending its shares rising more than 4%, helped by demand for its retro shoes and a return to growth in the Americas re...
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Stocks and bonds wobble as global economy throws off mixed signals
By Harry Robertson LONDON (Reuters) - Investors have gone from bracing for a U.S. recession to positioning for the world's biggest economy to keep chugging along. European growth is also better than anticipated a few months ago, a challenge for tr...
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China Vanke to auction Shenzhen land plot with loss-making reserve price
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Cash-strapped China Vanke is selling a large Shenzhen land plot at a reserve price of 2.24 billion yuan ($310 million) via auction, the developer's latest move to raise funds to ease its liquidity stress. The auction of the 19...
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German industrial output falls less than expected in March
By Maria Martinez (Reuters) -German industrial production declined in March, although less than expected thanks to construction, data from the federal statistics office showed on Wednesday. Industrial production fell by 0.4% compared to February, a sm...
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BMW's Q1 automotive margin falls as high costs persist
By Andrey Sychev BERLIN (Reuters) -BMW on Wednesday reported a lower first-quarter profit margin in its automotive segment as persistently higher costs continued to weigh and demand for luxury cars in China remained muted. The German premium automaker'...
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