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© Reuters. By Liz Moyer Investing.com — Stocks wobbled around on Wednesday after mixed corporate earnings muddied the outlook for interest rates. Regional banks, including Western Alliance Bancorporation (NYSE:) in Phoenix, are coming back strongly amid signs deposits are stabilizing after March’s sector turmoil. Western Alliance said late Tuesday it had added $2 billion of deposits in April after first-quarter deposits dipped 11% from the fourth quarter levels. Other big regional banks are set to report tomorrow. The Federal Reserve is closely watching economic data and corporate earnings as it heads into its next decision on rates in May. are…
By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden announced plans to increase U.S. funding to help developing countries fight climate change and curb deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon (NASDAQ:) rainforest during a meeting on Thursday with leaders from the world’s largest economies. During a virtual meeting of the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate, Biden urged his counterparts to be ambitious in setting goals to reduce emissions and meet a target of limiting overall global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. “We’re at a moment of great peril but also great possibilities, serious possibilities. With the right commitment and follow-through from…
By Nell Mackenzie PARIS (Reuters) – The biggest threat to the economic outlook is a credit squeeze that has not finished filtering through the financial system, a senior official at Fidelity International told a European equities conference on Wednesday. For asset managers, hedge funds and traders gathered in Paris for the Tradetech equity trading conference, recession risks were a key talking point. The failure of two U.S. lenders and the forced takeover of Credit Suisse roiled financial markets in March, and a sharp selloff in bank stocks tightened lending conditions further, raising concerns about a global downturn. The “biggest threat”…
The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the abortion pill mifepristone to remain broadly available as litigation plays out in a lower court.The high court’s decision came in response to an emergency request by the Justice Department to block lower court rulings that would severely limit access to the medication even in some states where abortion remains legal. The case will now be heard in the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. The appeals court has scheduled oral arguments for Wednesday, May 17 at 1 pm CT. Mifepristone has become the central flashpoint in the legal battle over abortion since the Supreme…
A group of progressive Tesla shareholders want the company’s board of directors to make CEO Elon Musk concentrate more on one of his many jobs, that of running the EV automaker. In a letter to the Tesla board, the group says that Musk is not spending enough time and attention focused on issues facing the company, including increased EV competition from other automakers, and addressing issues important to the group, including allegations of a toxic work environment at Tesla. In addition to his role at Tesla (TSLA), Musk also leads Twitter, SpaceX, the Boring Company, and Neuralink, among others. “We…
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Character.ai CEO Noam Shazeer, a former Googler who worked in AI, spoke to the “No Priors” podcast. He said Google was afraid to launch a chatbot, fearing consequences of it saying something wrong. Shazeer left to start Character.AI, a startup that builds chatbots that can imitate famous people. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. download the app Google hesitated for years to release a chatbot out of fear of the repercussions should it say something wrong, according to Noam Shazeer, a former Google Brain engineer…
Resource nationalism is on the rise. As commodity prices climb, governments are clamouring for a bigger piece of the pie. Chile is the latest to exert more control over key resources. This week, president Gabriel Boric unveiled plans to nationalise the country’s vast lithium industry.The plan, which still needs to be approved by lawmakers, will not affect existing lithium mining contracts. These are held by two companies, Albemarle and Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile, or SQM. Both of their shares fell sharply in response. Future contracts will only be issued as public-private partnerships, with the state taking majority control.…
The federal judge who issued a nationwide ruling blocking the approval of a common abortion medication redacted key information on his legally mandated financial disclosures, in what legal experts described as an unusual move that conceals the bulk of his personal fortune. In his 2020 and 2021 annual disclosures, Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk wrote that he held between $5 million and $25 million in “common stock” of a company – a significant majority of the judge’s personal wealth. The name of the company he held stock in is redacted, despite the fact that federal law only allows redactions of information that…
