BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Any agreement reached with Chinese producers on minimum prices for electric vehicles would need to be as effective and enforceable as the EU tariffs that were imposed last week, the likely future European Union trade chief said on Monday. The EU increased tariffs on Chinese-built EVs to as much as 45.3% last…
BEIJING (Reuters) -Beijing opposes U.S. President Donald Trump’s push to transfer Palestinians out of Gaza and have the U.S. take over the region, China’s foreign ministry said on Thursday, underlining a long-held position against forced displacement of people. China supports the legitimate national rights of the Palestinian people, ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun told a regular…
By Michael S. Derby (Reuters) -The Federal Reserve’s latest Monetary Policy Report to Congress, released on Friday, was upbeat about the state of the economy but warned about some concerning aspects of the financial system. The report, which comes ahead of next week’s testimony before Congress by Fed Chair Jerome Powell, said central bank officials…
By Jeffrey Dastin (Reuters) – Intel’s upbeat revenue projections on Thursday masked a sore point for the embattled company: chips touted for artificial intelligence have not lived up to sales expectations. The chipmaker scrapped its recent forecast that in 2024 it would sell more than $500 million worth of Gaudi accelerator chips, so called because…
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK (Reuters) – Futures on the federal funds rate, which measure the cost of unsecured overnight loans between banks, priced in on Thursday another 25-basis-point rate cut next month, after the Federal Reserve lowered rates by the same magnitude at the end of its two-day policy meeting. Rate futures also implied…
(Reuters) – NATO-member defense spending may come back into focus as former U.S. President Donald Trump returns to office. Republican Trump, 78, was elected president on Wednesday, defeating Democratic candidate Kamala Harris. He previously served as U.S. president from 2017 to 2021. In congratulating Trump on his election, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said that…
(Reuters) – Major brokerages including J.P.Morgan, Barclays and Goldman Sachs have forecast a 25-basis-point interest-rate cut by the U.S. Federal Reserve at its November 6-7 meeting. The central bank cut interest rates by an oversized 50 basis points at its Sept. 17-18 meeting. Fed Chair Jerome Powell said the reduction was meant to show policymakers’…
(Reuters) – Emerson Electric said on Monday that its $265 per-share offer to acquire Aspen Technology was its “best and final” price. The announcement comes days after activist investor Elliott Management said it invested over $1.5 billion in Aspen, opposing the company’s decision to accept Emerson’s $7.2 billion tender offer. “Our break price is ~$202…
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (Reuters) – The International Olympic Committee has no concerns over working with Donald Trump and his incoming administration on the Los Angeles 2028 Summer Olympics given the President-elect’s continued support of those Games, IOC President Thomas Bach said on Thursday. The Los Angeles Olympics were awarded in 2017 when Trump was president following…
By Jamie McGeever ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) – When Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and his colleagues meet this week to discuss their next interest rate move, they’ll face a much more complicated situation than they did only two months ago, due to the historic rise in long-dated Treasury yields since the central bank’s jumbo rate…
