June 6 (Reuters) – Dolby Laboratories (DLB.N), opens new tab said on Thursday it was acquiring GE Licensing, an intellectual property business targeting the consumer digital media and electronics sectors, in a $429 million deal. The takeover, which aims to further Dolby’s…
Read moreLONDON — Enterprise tech giant Salesforce is opening an artificial intelligence center in London, making a bullish bet on the U.K. as a global technology hub. The U.S. software giant said in a statement Thursday that it is opening a more-than-40,000-square-foot facility…
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A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan Wall Street’s tech-led stock surge to new records has seen $3 trillion AI-champion Nvidia (NVDA.O), opens new tab replace Apple (AAPL.O), opens new tab as the world’s 2nd most valuable company…
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Hindalco-backed aluminum recycling company Novelis has postponed its U.S. listing of over $900 million, citing market conditions. “Novelis will continue to evaluate the timing of the offering in the future,” the company said late Tuesday, without elaborating further. Source: WSJ
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SYDNEY, June 5 (Reuters) – The Australian government on Wednesday introduced legislation that would require buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) firms to run credit checks on borrowers, aiming to regulate the rapidly growing sector popular among youth like other consumer credit products. BNPL…
Read moreRecent documents submitted to a U.S. federal court allege that major British bank Standard Chartered helped finance sanctioned Iranian entities and terrorist groups, and that relevant evidence was ignored by American authorities. London-based Standard Chartered, which primarily serves clients in emerging markets, was…
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BRUSSELS, June 4 (Reuters) – European Union finance ministers will hold a videoconference on Wednesday on a G7 proposal to leverage Russian central bank assets immobilised in the West to allow Kyiv swiftly to receive a loan of around $50…
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SHANGHAI, June 5 (Reuters) – The Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges are considering suspending certain value-added market data feeds to institutions such as computer-driven quant funds, two sources said in an effort by Chinese regulators to tighten scrutiny of a…
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Tencent-backed artificial intelligence (AI) drug researcher QuantumPharm is raising up to HK$1.13 billion (US$144.5 million) in a Hong Kong initial public offering (IPO) from Tuesday, eyeing the first listing under a new regime for pre-revenue specialist technology firms that was…
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A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan With a still-powerful “buy the dip” instinct in stocks, U.S. markets are having a rare bout of jitters about a slowing economy – with Treasury yields, the dollar…
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