By Siddharth Cavale NEW YORK (Reuters) – “Target is my backup option,” said Chloe Guss, a shopper at the retail chain for nearly 20 years whose reservations about some of its products may spell trouble for the business. The New Yorker, 38, mostly shops at Target through her Instacart app for a few groceries and…
By Maytaal Angel LONDON (Reuters) – World cocoa prices rose back above $10,000 a ton on Thursday, heading towards the year’s record peaks as the chocolate industry’s supply crisis worsened after top producer Ivory Coast halted bean exports for June and forward sales for next season. The news came a day after reports that Ghana,…
By Karen Brettell NEW YORK (Reuters) -The dollar gained on Thursday despite a soft U.S. producer price inflation report for May, after the Federal Reserve adopted a hawkish tone at the conclusion of its meeting on Wednesday. Data on Thursday showed that U.S. producer prices unexpectedly fell in May, with the headline producer price index…
By Hyunjoo Jin, Abinaya V and Greg Roumeliotis (Reuters) -Tesla shareholders were set to approve Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package in what is being seen as a thumbs-up to his leadership – and an enticement for keeping his focus on the electric vehicle maker. Musk posted a chart on his social media platform X…
By Arsheeya Bajwa (Reuters) – Broadcom surged more than 13% on Thursday as its upbeat annual forecast highlighted an insatiable demand for chips used in powering AI-focused technology, while its announcement of a stock split added to the euphoria. The rising adoption of generative AI has been driving demand for companies such as Broadcom that…
By Pranav Kashyap and Medha Singh (Reuters) – Citron Research no longer has a short position in retail traders’ favorite GameStop, the short seller said on X.com on Wednesday, days after taking a bearish position in the company. “It’s not because we believe in a turnaround for the company fundamentals will ever happen, but with…
(Reuters) – Investors will vote on Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s $56-billion compensation package and the company’s reincorporation in Texas, from Delaware, at a consequential shareholder meeting this week. Analysts have flagged risk of the billionaire potentially leaving the electric-vehicle maker and prioritizing artificial intelligence startup xAI and social media platform X if the pay package…
(Reuters) – GameStop said on Tuesday it had completed an “at-the-market” equity offering of its shares to raise roughly $2.14 billion in gross proceeds, days after meme stock influencer Keith Gill’s first livestream in three years. Shares of the videogame retailer, which has been at the center of the meme stock frenzy, rose more than…
(Reuters) -Apple once again became the world’s most valuable company on Wednesday, dethroning Microsoft from the top spot, as the iPhone maker pushed ahead in a race to dominate artificial intelligence technology. Its shares rose more than 2% to $211.75, giving it a market valuation of $3.25 trillion. Microsoft’s market capitalization stood at $3.24 trillion,…
SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s major state-owned banks were seen selling dollars for yuan in the onshore spot foreign exchange market on Tuesday to prevent the local currency from falling too rapidly, four people with knowledge of the matter said. China’s state banks usually act on behalf of the central bank in the country’s foreign exchange…
