By Arsheeya Bajwa (Reuters) -International Business Machines is nearing a deal to buy cloud software provider HashiCorp, according to a person familiar with the matter. Hashicorp’s stock surged 24%, giving it a market value of $6.1 billion, after the Wall Street Journal first reported the talks. Under CEO Arvind Krishna, IBM has focused on acquisitions […]
By Foo Yun Chee and Elvira Pollina BRUSSELS/ROME (Reuters) – European Union antitrust regulators are asking rivals and customers whether proposed acquisition of Telecom Italia’s (TIM) fixed-line access network by U.S. investment firm KKR could hamper Italy’s wholesale market, people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. Such regulatory worries could lead to a lengthy […]
By Valerie Volcovici (Reuters) -Countries are under pressure to make progress on a first-ever global plastics treaty this week, but they face tense negotiations in the Canadian capital with parties deeply divided over what the treaty should include as talks begin on Tuesday. If governments can agree on a legally binding treaty that addresses not […]
(Reuters) – A spike in power usage from artificial intelligence (AI) data centers could significantly boost natural gas demand in the second half of the decade, analysts at investment banker Tudor Pickering Holt & Co said in a report on Tuesday. As much as 8.5 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas could be […]
By Patrick Werr CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s economy will grow slower than previously expected this year after it signed an $8 billion financial support package with the IMF that came with conditions, but growth will accelerate next year, a Reuters poll forecast on Tuesday. Egypt has also been clobbered by the Gaza crisis, which caused […]
By David Shepardson and Allison Lampert WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is investigating a Boeing whistleblower’s claims that the company dismissed safety and quality concerns in the production of the planemaker’s 787 and 777 jets, an agency spokesperson said on Tuesday. The planemaker has been grappling with a full-blown safety crisis that […]
By Brendan Pierson and Nate Raymond (Reuters) – Arizona’s top court on Tuesday revived a ban on nearly all abortions under a law from 1864, a half century before statehood and women’s suffrage, further restricting reproductive rights in a state where terminating a pregnancy was already barred at 15 weeks of gestation. The Arizona Supreme […]
By Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) -The U.N. nuclear watchdog’s Board of Governors will hold an emergency meeting on Thursday at the request of both Ukraine and Russia to discuss attacks on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, after the enemies accused each other of drone attacks. The International Atomic Energy Agency has said drones struck the […]
TORONTO (Reuters) -Bank of Nova Scotia said on Tuesday that upcoming elections in the U.S. and Mexico are creating political uncertainty but Canada’s third-biggest lender was well equipped to navigate the region’s shifting environments. Scotiabank’s presence in the United States, Canada and Mexico makes it unique among Canadian banks, giving it among the biggest exposure […]
By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) -Former Ecuadorean Vice President Jorge Glas is back in prison in the city of Guayaquil after being discharged from the hospital and is in acceptable health, the SNAI prisons agency said on Tuesday. Glas, already twice convicted of corruption and now facing fresh charges, was arrested on Friday after a […]
