A dating app, a healthcare insurer, a frozen chip maker and a payroll software firm walked out of the S&P 500 on Monday, replaced by Vertiv Holdings, Lumentum, Coherent and EchoStar - three AI hardware suppliers and a satellite comms operator. Back at the start of this month, NVIDIA invested US$2 billion in Lumentum Holdings and another $2 billion in Coherent Corp - multi-year strategic deals b
The United States aims to bring more diesel to the market, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said, as fuel prices rise amid the Iran war. Wright did not give any specific details on how or when the new diesel would be added. Diesel prices in the U.S. have climbed by around 40% since the start of the war. “We do have some ideas on diesel, that we can bring extra diesel to the marketplace. And I t
Inflation is now a larger issue than unemployment for the United States economy, Chicago Federal Reserve President Austan Goolsbee said, with both interest rate cuts and hikes potentially on the table. The Federal Reserve’s decisions will also depend on the U.S. war against Iran, said Goolsbee. Goolsbee is not a voting Federal Open Market Committee member this year, but will vote again in 2027.
The artificial intelligence boom could worsen wealth inequality unless more people can share its gains, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said in a letter to shareholders. Fink encouraged broader participation in investment, saying that this could help distribute market gains from technologies like AI. “The vast majority of wealth has flowed to people who owned assets, not to people who earned most o
United States President Donald Trump said he had positive conversations with Iran about ending the war and has postponed U.S. strikes on Iran’s energy infrastructure. In a post to Truth Social, Trump said the U.S. and Iran have had “very good and productive” conversations over the past two days. “BASED ON THE TENOR AND TONE OF THESE IN DEPTH, DETAILED, AND CONSTRUCTIVE CONVERSATIONS, WHICH W
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While investor appetite for tokenised assets has been surging for some time, new research suggests that most institutional investors now favour it to access pre-IPO opportunities. Given that it breaks down real-world assets into smaller, more affordable units, tokenisation - by leveraging blockchain technology - gives retail investors tickets to a dance previously reserved for institutional pla
The stock of big chip-design software maker, Synopsys, has risen after activist investor Elliot Management made a multi-billion-dollar investment in the company. People familiar with the matter said Elliot plans to engage with Synopsys to push the business to make more money from its software and services. “Synopsys is essential to the global chip industry,” Elliott Managing Partner Jesse Co
More than 80 global executives travelled to Beijing for the annual China Development Forum as corporate giants attempt to navigate United States-China tensions. This year’s meeting comes as executives attempt to recapture the Chinese consumer after years of uncertainty from the Covid-19 pandemic, slower growth and U.S. trade tensions. Beijing has said it is committed to becoming a "cornersto
The Estée Lauder Companies (ELC) has confirmed it is in talks with Puig about a potential merger that would create a US$40 billion (A$57 billion) beauty products giant. The personal care products company said no final decision had been made and no agreement had been reached on a deal with the Spanish fashion and beauty company. “Unless and until an agreement is signed between the companies,
The United States government will pay nearly US$1 billion to TotalEnergies to abandon planned offshore wind projects and redirect investment into oil and gas, in a move that signals a significant shift in federal energy policy under the Trump administration. The agreement, announced at the CERAWeek conference in Houston, will see the Department of the Interior reimburse TotalEnergies around $92
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