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Tesla shares rise on report that Trump team plans federal rule

Tesla shares rise on report that Trump team plans federal rule

Tesla shares rose nearly 7% in pre-market trading on Monday, after Bloomberg News reported that President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team plans to establish federal regulations for autonomous vehicles. The report comes days after Trump named the automaker’s CEO., Elon Musk, co-director of the incoming government’s government efficiency department. Last month, Musk criticized the state-by-state approval ...

With Trump's return imminent, Chinese President Xi advocates more free trade

With Trump’s return imminent, Chinese President Xi advocates more free trade

Chinese President Xi Jinping said Saturday in the capital of Peru that the Asia-Pacific region must promote greater free trade, at a time when cooperation in the region faces “growing protectionism,” according to Chinese state media. This occurs in the midst of Donald Trump’s imminent return to the presidency of the United States, that looms ...

COP29 escalates further as Saudis resist reaffirming commitment

COP29 escalates further as Saudis resist reaffirming commitment

Controversy is brewing at United Nations climate negotiations over whether countries should recommit to last year’s historic pledge to abandon fossil fuels. European and American negotiators believe that the reaffirmation of the commitments agreed last year, including boosting efficiency and deploying renewable energy, is essential to avoid a setback in the global fight against climate ...

IMF Director congratulates Peru for controlling inflation and highlights economic resilience

IMF Director congratulates Peru for controlling inflation and highlights economic resilience

The managing director of the International Monetary Fund, IMF, Kristalina Georgieva, congratulated Peru on Friday for managing to reduce “significantly” inflation and highlighted the resilience of its economy in the midst of the onslaught of the climate. Georgieva met with Peruvian President Dina Boluarte within the framework of the leaders’ summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic ...

Disney expects US$1 billion in streaming profits in new fiscal period

Disney expects US$1 billion in streaming profits in new fiscal period

Old Hollywood is finally doing what Netflix has been doing for over a decade: make money with streaming. With the exception of NBCUniversal, the largest traditional media companies reported profits from their direct-to-consumer businesses last quarter, led by Walt Disney, which earned $321 million from its online video division in the final months of its ...

South Korea will host the next Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum

South Korea will host the next Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum

The South Korean delegationmade up in part of the governor and mayor of Gyeongju City, announced that his country will host the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum in 2025. Joo Nak-young, mayor of Gyeongju, from a press conference in the Peru Zone of Promperú, at the Ministry of Culture, He highlighted that his desire is to ...

Vladimir Putin considering YouTube outages in Russia, Kremlin says

Vladimir Putin considering YouTube outages in Russia, Kremlin says

President Vladimir Putin is studying YouTube’s slowness and outages in Russia after the country’s top film official raised the issue with him, the Kremlin reported on Friday. Critics believe authorities are deliberately disrupting YouTube to prevent Russians from viewing a large amount of content critical of Putin and his government. Russia denies this, claiming that ...

The president of Italy tells Elon Musk to stop meddling in local politics

The president of Italy tells Elon Musk to stop meddling in local politics

Italian President Sergio Mattarella told Elon Musk on Wednesday not to interfere in internal affairsafter the American billionaire claimed that judges in Rome blocking a government initiative against immigration should be expelled. The unusual statement by the Italian head of state came against a backdrop of growing tension between the ruling coalition and the judiciary ...

Blinken pledges to bolster support for Ukraine ahead of Trump transition

Blinken pledges to bolster support for Ukraine ahead of Trump transition

The Secretary of State of the United States, Antony Blinken, assured NATO on Wednesday that Joe Biden’s Government will reinforce its support for Ukraine in the few months until Donald Trump’s return to the presidency and will try to strengthen the alliance during that time. In a meeting in Brussels with NATO Secretary General Mark ...

Minister Luis Caputo affirms that Argentina will register a financial surplus for October

Minister Luis Caputo affirms that Argentina will register a financial surplus for October

Argentina will register an “important” financial surplus in October, in line with the economic program it is carrying out the country to leave behind years of deficits in its public accounts, Economy Minister Luis Caputo said on Tuesday. In a presentation at the Annual Conference of the Latin American Economic Research Foundation, Fiel,Caputo maintained that ...