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29  mars     07h10
Mazda and Panasonic’s energy unit sign auto battery supply agreement
   Japanese automaker Mazda Motor .T and the energy unit of Panasonic Holdings .T said on Friday they have signed an automotive battery supply agreement.The deal comes out of talks about a battery supply partnership for electric vehicles that Mazda and Panasonic Energy started in June last...
    08h28
Japan’s Nikkei posts biggest point gain for fiscal year
   Japan’s Nikkei share average ended higher on Friday, driven by chip related heavyweights, and posted a record fiscal year gain in terms of points amid heavy foreign buying.The index hit successive record highs this month, after breaking levels on Feb. last seen in during the country’s...
    02h19
Vietnam economy expands 5.66% in first quarter as exports boom
   Vietnam’s gross domestic product grew . in the first quarter from a year earlier as exports boomed, government data showed on Friday, despite higher shipping costs due to turmoil in the Red Sea.Growth in the January March quarter was faster than the expansion of . in the corresponding...
28  mars     23h43
Tokyo inflation slowdown, output slide clouds BOJ’s rate hike outlook
   Core inflation in Japan’s capital slowed in March and factory output unexpectedly slid in the previous month, heightening uncertainty on how soon the Bank of Japan can raise interest rates again after exiting its radical monetary stimulus.The slew of weak signs in the economy could prompt the...
29  mars     04h55
Japan brought forward emergency yen meeting to maximise market impact, source says
   Japanese monetary authorities made a last minute decision to bring forward to Wednesday an emergency meeting on the weak yen that was originally scheduled for Thursday, to maximise the impact of arresting sharp yen falls, a source with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.The meeting, consisting of...
    06h04
Weight-loss drug deals to drive around 4% of Gerresheimer yearly growth, CEO says
   Gerresheimer GXIG.DE CEO Dietmar Siemssen said he expects about of the company’s revenue growth per year from deals to supply makers of drugs for weight loss and diabetes with vials, cartridges, syringes and autoinjectors.The German company reported in February that it expects to grow an...
28  mars     06h02
Markets in Q1: the wild ride towards rate cuts
   Global bond and equity markets are ending the first quarter on a high note, with investors poised for more wild swings ahead after months of the mood lurching between optimism and pessimism about prospective rate cuts from major central banks.MSCI’s global share index .MIWO PUS , which smashed...
    08h27
Australia keen to make progress on Chinese export hurdles for beef, lobsters
   Australia is focused on removing impediments to exports to China for live lobsters and beef from some suppliers, a government official said, one day after Beijing said it would lift tariffs on Australian wine.Australia and China, its largest trading partner, are rebuilding ties after a period of...
29  mars     00h51
Musk’s xAI to launch improved version of chatbot
   Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI said on Thursday it will launch an enhanced version of its chatbot Grok.The new version, called Grok . , will be made available to early testers and existing Grok users on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, in the coming days, xAI...
27  mars     23h02
Xiaomi takes aim at Tesla in Chinese auto market with 29,870 electric car
   Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi launched a sporty electric car on Thursday with styling cues drawn from Porsche and priced below Tesla’s TSLA.O Model, highlighting the stiff competition from new entrants in an already crowded EV market in China.During the two hour long event, Xiaomi CEO and...
29  mars     00h57
Texas attorney general opens investigation into parts supplier for Boeing
   Texas attorney general Ken Paxton has opened an investigation into a supplier of parts for Boeing BA.N , Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc SPR.N after what he said were recurring issues with certain of those parts, his office said on Thursday.On Monday, Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun announced he would...
28  mars     18h44
Battle for Disney board seats heats up as votes come in, Blackwells sues
   With less than a week to go before shareholders elect Walt Disney’s board, the race for votes heated up on Thursday as one institutional investor sided with CEO Bob Iger and the company’s directors, while another backed hedge fund manager Nelson Peltz’s Trian Fund Management.The New York City...
    21h30
Goldman, Morgan Stanley win dismissal of lawsuits over Archegos collapse
   A U.S. judge on Thursday dismissed seven lawsuits by investors who accused Goldman Sachs Group Inc GS.N and Morgan Stanley MS.N of misconduct that fueled the rapid March collapse of Bill Hwang’s billion firm Archegos Capital Management.U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan...
    19h21
Blackwells, in proxy fight with Disney, sues Disney over disclosure in hedge fund relationship
   Blackwells Capital upped the pressure on Walt Disney DIS.N in a long running boardroom battle, suing the entertainment giant on Thursday for information that may point to possible disclosure violations in dealings with hedge fund ValueAct Capital.The suit, filed in a Delaware court, is the latest...
    23h48
Brazil exchange operator B3 to offer bitcoin futures in April
   Brazilian exchange operator B B SA .SA said on Thursday it received a green light from the country’s securities regulator to offer bitcoin futures, with trading to start on April .B , which currently offers exchange traded funds ETFs and receipts of ETFs related to cryptoassets, said the...
    09h45
S&P 500 closes higher to secure strongest Q1 since 2019
   The S P closed out the week with slight gains on Thursday, with the benchmark index notching its strongest first quarter in five years, as investors digested the latest batch of economic data while looking towards the next inflation reading.Each of the three main U.S. indexes recorded solid...
    15h23
New Boeing airplane chief says company faces ’pivotal moment’
   The new head of Boeing’s BA.N troubled commercial airplane unit said the planemaker faces a pivotal moment as it works to boost quality and address significant concerns from regulators and airline customers after a panel flew off a MAX jet in January. This is a pivotal moment for us, and...
    20h27
US may soon unveil list of Chinese chip factories barred from receiving tech
   The United States is drawing up a list of advanced Chinese chipmaking factories barred from receiving key tools, three people familiar with matter said on Thursday, to make it easier for companies to stem technology flows into China.The list could be released in the next couple of months, one of...
    14h56
Baltimore port closure could dent US coal export volumes, EIA says
   Halted shipping traffic from the Port of Baltimore, the second largest U.S. hub for coal exports, will slow the growth in U.S. coal exports and reduce bunker fuel use, the Energy Information Administration EIA said on Thursday.Coal exports from the busy U.S. port have been disrupted following the...
    22h00
Alaska Air Group says 737 Max 9 grounding may hit long-term profit growth
   Alaska Air Group ALK.N said on Thursday the lost capacity from the temporary grounding of its Boeing BA.N Max fleet may cause the company’s long term profit growth to be below its target range of to .Earlier this month, Alaska Air forecast first quarter adjusted loss per share of ...
26  mars     09h02
Focus: Hershey, Mondelez bet big on Easter as cocoa price crisis looms
   This March story has been refiled to correct the data source to ’NielsenIQ’ from ’Nielsen’ in paragraph Hershey HSY.N , Mondelez MDLZ.O and other confection makers are employing promotions and pitching more non chocolate Easter treats like cookies ’n’ cream bunnies at a time when soaring...
28  mars     21h50
Rite Aid moves ahead on restructuring as sale efforts continue
   Rite Aid, one of the largest U.S. pharmacy chains, received permission from a U.S. judge on Thursday to begin voting on a bankruptcy restructuring plan that would turn over most of the company’s equity to its bondholders, while still leaving open the possibility of a sale.U.S. Bankruptcy Judge...
    21h49
Morning Bid: Yen wary of holiday calm as Q1 curtain falls
   A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.Markets in Asia on Friday will be quieter and probably more range bound than usual with most of the rest of the world closed for Good Friday, but there is always the chance of outsized moves when liquidity is so thin.Especially if Japanese authorities take...
    10h29
How the US stock market rocketed through the first quarter
   The U.S. stock market is off to a soaring start in , as optimism over the economy and interest rate cuts has combined with exuberance about the business opportunity in artificial intelligence to stir up a potent cocktail for equities.The S amp;P .SPX has climbed more than so far this...
    02h24
Stocks subdued, yen in focus, with inflation data on tap
   A gauge of global share markets was barely changed on Thursday as it was poised to end the quarter with solid gains, while a strong dollar kept the yen near its weakest in decades amid the threat of intervention from Japanese authorities.Wall Street’s main stock indexes finished the session with...
    20h57
Tesla appears unlikely to nix US suit alleging bias against Black workers
   A federal judge in California on Thursday appeared poised to reject Tesla’s TSLA.O bid to toss out a U.S. agency’s lawsuit accusing the electric carmaker of tolerating rampant harassment of Black workers at its Fremont, California assembly plant.U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley in San...
    18h47
Kitchen sponge maker Scrub Daddy explores sale, sources say
   Scrub Daddy, the kitchen sponge maker that gained popularity after securing an investment on U.S. TV show Shark Tank, is exploring options that include a sale of the company, according to people familiar with the matter.Scrub Daddy, which is backed by entrepreneur Lori Greiner, has hired JPMorgan...
    05h04
Exclusive: China’s WuXi AppTec shared US client’s data with Beijing, US intelligence officials told senators
   U.S. intelligence officials in late February told senators working on a biotech security bill that Chinese pharmaceutical firm WuXi AppTec .SS had transferred U.S. intellectual property to Beijing without consent, according to two sources.The U.S. government is concerned that certain...
    17h19
White House’s Brainard says corporate profits remain elevated
   White House National Economic Adviser Lael Brainard said on Thursday corporate profits remain elevated, after U.S. consumer sentiment rose unexpectedly in March to the highest in nearly three years on hopes inflation will keep softening.Brainard said the Biden administration still has work to do to...
    20h15
Automotive computer chip maker NXP rolls out new platform
   NXP NXPI.O Semiconductors NV, the biggest maker of computer chips for cars, on Thursday said it had introduced a new platform that will simplify and speed up software development for its customers.The platform, which integrates software from partner companies and a new line of advanced NXP chips,...