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Oil is stable as Gaza ceasefire negotiations progress

Oil is stable as Gaza ceasefire negotiations progress

Oil prices barely changed on Friday, withWith the global benchmark Brent hovering above US$85 per barrel, as the possibility of a ceasefire in Gaza gained momentum. Brent crude oil futures LCOc1 were down 2 cents at $85.76 a barrel by 1017 GMT. U.S. crude futures CLc1 rose 1 cent to $81.08 a barrel. US Secretary ...

Gold jumps to new record above US$2,200 an ounce amid dovish Fed

Gold jumps to new record above US$2,200 an ounce amid dovish Fed

Financial Diary – Santiago He gold rose above US$2,200 ounce for the first time as investors became more confident about the Federal Reserve's path for rate cuts, increasing the appeal of non-interest-bearing bullion. The precious metal rose as much as 1.6% to a record $2,220.89 in early trading, before paring those gains. Gold has risen ...

Justice Department to sue Apple for antitrust violations

Apple loses $113 billion as shares fall after regulators close

Regulators on both sides of the Atlantic are setting their sights on Apple Inc., unnerving investors with fears about fines and threatening its market dominance. In the United States, the Department of Justice and 16 attorneys general are suing the iPhone maker for violating antitrust laws. And in Europe, the company is said to face ...

Justice Department to sue Apple for antitrust violations

Justice Department to sue Apple for antitrust violations

The Justice Department is set to sue Apple Inc. on Thursday, accusing the world's second-most valuable technology company of violate antitrust laws by preventing rivals from accessing your iPhone's hardware and software features. The lawsuit, which is expected to be filed in federal court, according to people familiar with the matter, intensifies the Biden administration's ...

AstraZeneca will buy Fusion Pharma for a price close to US$2.4 billion

AstraZeneca will buy Fusion Pharma for a price close to US$2.4 billion

AstraZeneca Plc has agreed to buy Fusion Pharmaceuticals Inc. for US$2.4 billion, at a time when European pharmaceutical companies continue their streak of agreements with promising biotechnology companies. The British drugmaker said it will pay $21 per share for Fusion, or $2 billion in cash upfront. plus another US$400 million depending on the milestones achieved. ...

Peru, Brazil and Colombia are the OECD countries with the highest rates for SMEs

Peru, Brazil and Colombia are the OECD countries with the highest rates for SMEs

Latin America places three countries among the top five of those that from 2022 to 2023 had the highest rates for SMEs among the members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD, as revealed by the 'SME Financing' study. and entrepreneurs 2024'. The increase in interest rates by country was evaluated as a ...

Apple would be negotiating the use of Google's artificial intelligence in iPhone

Apple would be negotiating the use of Google's artificial intelligence in iPhone

Apple is in advanced negotiations with Google to integrate its Gemini generative artificial intelligence engine into iPhone phones, according to Bloomberg, citing anonymous sources familiar with the conversations. Apple wants to license the technology Google to use it in some of the AI ​​features that will include their phones this year. The company led by ...

China and Australia face difficult diplomatic path after trade dispute

China and Australia face difficult diplomatic path after trade dispute

China's likely lifting of final major tariffs on Australian goods in coming weeks will end bitter three-year trade war. That alone is unlikely to usher in a new era in relations between the two countries. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi's first trip to Australia in seven years to meet his counterpart Penny Wong in Canberra ...

Bank of Japan prepares to end negative interest rate policy

Bank of Japan prepares to end negative interest rate policy

The Bank of Japan is preparing to put an end on Tuesday to eight years of negative interest rates and other measures of its ultra-expansive policy, taking a historic turn away from the attempt to reactivate the growth of the economy with years of gigantic monetary stimuli. While the move would mark Japan's first interest ...

Nvidia backs little-known upstart in big Indian AI bet

Nvidia backs little-known upstart in big Indian AI bet

It's a muggy March afternoon in the suburbs of Mumbai and a group of men anxiously hover around the back door of a startup called Yotta Data Services. They walk, pause and worry. It's approaching midnight, 10 hours late, when a truck arrives with the precious cargo they've been waiting for: semiconductors from Nvidia Corp. ...