By Cynthia Kim and Jihoon Lee SEOUL, Jan 15 (Reuters) – South Korea’s central bank on Thursday signalled an end to its current easing cycle after keeping its benchmark interest rate unchanged, prioritising financial stability in its first policy meeting of the year as the won hovered around 16-year lows. Geopolitical tensions and fund outflows…
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 15 Reuters) – SiFive, which makes blueprints for parts of complex chips, said on Thursday it will become the first maker of RISC-V chip designs to integrate Nvidia technology that creates speedy links between chips. Like SoftBank’s Arm Holdings – an industry giant, SiFive provides customers with blueprints so that they can…
Jan 15 (Reuters) – GE Aerospace said on Thursday it has appointed veteran executive Mohamed Ali to lead its expanded commercial engines and services (CES) division, which will now also include the technology and operations team. Russell Stokes, who led the CES team, will retire in July after spending 29 years with the company. Stokes…
By Abigail Summerville ORLANDO, Florida, Jan 16 ((Reuters)) – Dealmakers predict an uptick in mergers and IPOs for retailers and consumer goods companies this year after punishing tariffs on imports to the U.S. had sidelined activity in the industry for the first half of 2025. Several national restaurant and convenience store chains are primed for…
By Ann Saphir Jan 9 (Reuters) – A drop in the unemployment rate may ease concerns at the U.S. central bank about labor market weakness, with traders betting Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has delivered his last interest rate cut before his term ends in May and leaving any further policy easing in the hands…
Jan 9 (Reuters) – NASA on Friday said the space agency and SpaceX are targeting to undock the agency’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission from the International Space Station no earlier than 5 p.m. ET (2200 GMT) on Wednesday, January 14, pending weather conditions. Earlier this week NASA said it was mulling an early return of the…
By Anousha Sakoui, Clara Denina, Melanie Burton and Amy-Jo Crowley LONDON, Jan 9 (Reuters) – Rio Tinto’s talks to buy Glencore and create a new global industry leader could spur consolidation efforts across the copper-hungry mining sector and heap pressure on BHP, currently the world’s biggest miner, to respond. If the bid succeeds, and depending…
By Marianna Parraga Jan 10 (Reuters) – At least four tankers, most of them loaded, that had departed from Venezuela in early January in ‘dark mode’ – or with their transponders off amid a strict U.S. blockade – are now back in the South American country’s waters, according to state company PDVSA and monitoring service…
By Steve Holland WASHINGTON, Jan 8 (Reuters) – Aides to U.S. President Donald Trump met at the White House on Thursday with envoys from Denmark and Greenland, a Danish government official said as Trump pushes to bring the island territory under U.S. control. Denmark’s Ambassador Jesper Moller Sorensen and Jacob Isbosethsen, Greenland’s chief representative to…
KYIV, Jan 8 (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday the text of a bilateral security guarantee between Kyiv and Washington was “essentially ready” to be finalised with U.S. President Donald Trump. As a cornerstone of any post-war settlement, Ukraine has sought strong guarantees which commit the U.S. and other Western allies to…
