(Reuters) – Tesla’s market value breached the $1 trillion-mark in a sharp rally on Friday, on growing bets of a favorable treatment for CEO Elon Musk’s companies in return for his support for President-elect Donald Trump in his poll campaign. The electric automaker’s shares rose more than 6% to a more than two-year high of…
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – Vanguard Group, the largest U.S. manager of mutual fund assets, agreed to pay $40 million to settle a lawsuit claiming it stuck ordinary investors in its popular target-date retirement funds with surprisingly large tax bills. A preliminary settlement of the proposed class action was filed on Wednesday in Philadelphia federal…
(Reuters) – Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group slumped to a two-week low on Thursday, as speculative bets on Donald Trump winning the U.S. presidential election lost steam a day after his victory. The stock was nearly 20% lower at 10:25 a.m. ET, on track to erase its 6% gain on Wednesday after majority…
(Reuters) – United States Cellular said on Thursday it has agreed to sell a portion of spectrum licenses used to transmit mobile phone signals and high-speed data services to AT&T in a $1.02 billion deal. The transaction is part of the regional wireless carrier’s strategy to monetize its spectrum assets that were not part of…
SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin condemned the United States on Thursday for seeking to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia in Ukraine and said a struggle was underway to shape a new world order as the Western-dominated post-Cold War era crumbled. “We have come to a dangerous line,” Putin told the Valdai discussion…
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU antitrust regulators are investigating whether the fees charged by Visa and Mastercard have a negative impact on retailers, an EU document seen by Reuters showed. The European Commission, which enforces EU competition rules, sent questionnaires about both Visa and Mastercard to retailers and payment service providers in…
(Reuters) – Blackstone Real Estate on Wednesday entered into an agreement to take Retail Opportunity Investments Corp private in an all-cash transaction valued at about $4 billion, including debt. Reuters reported on Sunday that the alternative asset manager was in advanced talks for the acquisition of the company, which owns strip malls across the United…
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s Republicans looked set on Wednesday to possibly win control of both chambers of Congress, giving them sweeping powers for the first time in eight years to ram through a broad agenda of tax and spending cuts, energy deregulation and border security controls. But it would also force…
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday upheld a jury’s verdict clearing Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his company of liability over allegations they misled investors when the billionaire posted on social media in 2018 that he had “funding secured” to take the electric car company private. The San Francisco-based 9th…
LONDON (Reuters) – Online fast-fashion platforms Shein and Temu are gearing up for a 2026 trial at London’s High Court, with the rivals trading allegations of copyright infringement and anti-competitive behaviour in competing lawsuits. Shein sued Temu in Britain last year, accusing Whaleco UK Limited – whose ultimate parent is Temu’s owner PDD Holdings –…
