By Ernest Scheyder and Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) – The White House is weighing an executive order that would fast-track permitting for deep-sea mining in international waters and let mining companies bypass a United Nations-backed review process, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the deliberations. If signed, the order would mark U.S. President Donald […]
Gold sails above $3,100 to uncharted territory as US tariffs approach
By Anjana Anil and Anushree Mukherjee (Reuters) – Gold prices soared to record levels above $3,100 per ounce in a rally marking one of the most significant upswings in the precious metal’s history, with psychological levels swept aside by a cocktail of factors – including worry about fallout from impending U.S. tariffs. Spot gold hit […]
Lockheed Martin clinches $4.94 billion US Army missile contract
(Reuters) – Lockheed Martin on Monday said the U.S. Army had awarded it a contract worth up to $4.94 billion to produce Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM). Defense companies are seeing a surge in weaponry demand, driven by conflicts across the globe. The Pentagon has been prioritizing purchases of the PrSM, which is to replace the […]
OpenAI plans to release open-weight language model in coming months
(Reuters) – OpenAI is planning to release its first open-weight language model with reasoning capabilities since GPT‑2 in the coming months, CEO Sam Altman said on Monday. The company will speak with developers about how to make it useful, Altman said in a post on X. An open-weight language model is a type that allows […]
UBS joins Wall Street firms in cutting S&P 500’s annual target to below 6500
(Reuters) – UBS Global Wealth Management cut the S&P 500’s 2025 target to below the 6,500 mark, widely mirroring actions from other Wall Street firms including Barclays and Goldman Sachs, due to the economic impact of U.S. tariffs. The wealth management unit of European bank UBS, cut its year-end index target to 6,400 from 6,600 […]
Exclusive-Buyout, aerospace firms close in on $8 billion-plus Boeing navigation unit, sources say
By Milana Vinn, Dan Catchpole and Mike Stone (Reuters) – Several private equity firms and at least one aerospace supplier are among the remaining bidders competing to buy Boeing’s Jeppesen navigation unit for more than $8 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. Boeing is expected to invite bids for Jeppesen from the suitors […]
Google to pay $100 million to settle advertisers’ class action
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – Google has agreed to pay $100 million in cash to settle a long-running lawsuit claiming it overcharged advertisers by failing to provide promised discounts and charged for clicks on ads outside the geographic areas the advertisers targeted. A preliminary settlement of the 14-year-old class action, which began in March 2011, […]
Johnson & Johnson unit ordered to pay $1.64 billion in HIV drug marketing case
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – A federal judge ordered a Johnson & Johnson unit on Friday to pay the U.S. government $1.64 billion after a jury found it liable in a whistleblower lawsuit for illegally promoting the HIV drugs Prezista and Intelence. U.S. District Judge Zahid Quraishi in Trenton, New Jersey, ordered the drugmaker’s Janssen […]
Walgreen to pay more than $2.85 million to settle US overbilling charges
(Reuters) -Walgreen will pay more than $2.85 million to settle whistleblower allegations that the pharmacy overbilled Medicaid programs in Georgia and Massachusetts for generic medications, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday. The settlement partially resolves claims against the Walgreens Boots Alliance unit brought under the federal, Georgia and Massachusetts False Claims Act. Walgreen […]
Reddit down for thousands of US users, X outage eases, Downdetector shows
(Reuters) -Reddit was down for thousands of users in the U.S. on Thursday, as X’s services appeared to stabilize, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. There were more than 26,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Reddit as of 3:36 p.m. ET, Downdetector showed, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of […]