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Airbus said on Thursday it had signed a multi-year agreement ‌with Iliad-owned Scaleway to provide cloud infrastructure for sensitive industrial ‌and defence applications, supporting the deployment of AI tools developed with French startup Mistral. The ​European planemaker said Scaleway would host critical applications spanning aircraft design, engineering, industrial production and corporate operations. Airbus signed a partnership with Mistral in May to co-develop customised AI tools for aerospace and defence.

TOKYO, July 16 (Reuters) - Nvidia said on Thursday it was partnering with Japanese companies including Fanuc and Yaskawa Electric to advance the development of robotics and AI.

SpaceX stock nears its IPO price as August earnings approach, a date that also triggers the first wave of insider share unlocks.

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Asia-Pacific equities mostly declined, as a pullback in U.S. chip stocks fueled concerns about the longevity of artificial-intelligence enthusiasm and weighed on chip-heavy South Korea.

Ever since ChatGPT exploded in popularity, investors have worried that artificial intelligence could weaken Google’s most important business. Instead of searching for information and clicking through Google’s advertising-heavy results, consumers can increasingly ask an AI chatbot for a direct ...

By Stella Qiu SYDNEY, July 16 (Reuters) - Asian shares fell on Thursday as chipmakers stumbled ahead of results from bellwether TSMC, while bonds benefited from another benign reading on U.S.

South Korea's central bank hikes rates to 2.75% to fight 3.2% inflation, pressuring the won, stocks, and crypto.

South Korea's top financial regulator will announce new measures on single-stock leveraged exchange-traded funds soon, its chief ‌said on Thursday, amid worries about the effects of such instruments on financial ‌market stability. The Financial Services Commission will "closely inspect and review improvement measures" on the ETFs soon, Chairman Lee Eog-weon said ​in a radio interview on Thursday, when asked how the product affected the high volatility of South Korea's stock market. In a separate move, South Korea's finance minister will hold a meeting on Thursday afternoon to discuss the marketss, the ministry said ⁠without elaborating further.

JPMorgan, Goldman and other big banks are raking in trading revenue this year as “the market is clearly extremely risk-on.”

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Few companies have a clearer view of where the AI boom is heading than TSMC. And of course, with that, investors increasingly look to the company for answers. Earlier in June, speaking at the company's annual shareholders' meeting in Hsinchu, Taiwan, CEO C.C. Wei was precise and notably candid. It ...

June’s Producer Price Index (PPI) declined 0.3% from the previous month, marking its steepest drop in more than a year.

Violent threats against artificial-intelligence companies are rising and spilling over into real-world security incidents.

Inflation may not be rising as quickly as it was a few years ago, but shoppers are still feeling the pain every time they head to the checkout. That's made value-focused retailers such as Dollar General increasingly important for families looking to stretch every dollar, especially as we gear up ...

Record net revenues of $21.3 billion drove a 62% earnings-per-share surge.

AI demand drives 30% capacity expansion plans for advanced lithography tools.

While we are still in the opening stages of the Q2 reporting cycle, the early results strongly reinforce the robust corporate earnings trend we've been seeing, with the big banks starting off the Q2 earnings season with remarkable momentum.

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Nvidia’s (NVDA) first H200 shipments to China are unlikely to change its quarterly results. The reported volume is just too low. But it matters to U.S. investors, since Nvidia’s current guidance assumes data-center compute revenue from China will be zero. For the first quarter of fiscal 2027, ...

Data center provider Csquare priced its initial public offering at $21 per ‌share, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, ‌citing sources. Brookfield the Dallas-based company's backer, is considering buying a ​portion of the offering, the report added. Reuters could not immediately verify the report.

American Airlines’ board of directors has elected former FedEx and Atlas Air executive as its newest member. The post Former FedEx CFO John Dietrich joins American Airlines board appeared first on FreightWaves.

Dominion Energy announced Wednesday afternoon that it had filed paperwork with the State Corporation Commission to begin its proposed merger with Florida-based NextEra. If the Virginia SCC and other equivalent regulatory bodies in North Carolina, South Carolina and at the federal level approve the $67 billion deal, the merger would create the world’s largest regulated electric utility. The SCC ...

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<body><p>STORY: U.S. stocks closed higher on Wednesday, with the Dow gaining more than a quarter of a percent, the S&P 500 adding over a third of a percent and the Nasdaq climbing more than six-tenths of a percent.</p><p>A second day of solid bank earnings added momentum to an auspicious beginning to second-quarter reporting season.</p><p>BlackRock and Morgan Stanley both beat quarterly profit expectations, with shares of BlackRock advancing over 6.5% and Morgan Stanley also ending higher.</p><p>Strong earnings combined with more cooler-than-expected inflation data, in the form of June wholesale prices, helped lift stocks, says Melissa Brown, managing director of investment decision research at SimCorp.</p><p>"We saw some good earnings from the financial companies. And, you know, on top of that, there's just still the same buzz around the AI trade, around what's happening with semiconductors. And there's, we haven't really seen a lot of bad news. The inflation news has been better than expected, although I would argue still not good. So inflation is still higher than the Fed's target, even though it has come in a little bit lower than expected. But I think, you know, kind of all those things are conspiring to make it a good but not blowout day today."</p><p>Among the session's other stock moves, PayPal surged more than 17% after sources told Reuters that Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have jointly offered to acquire it.</p><p>And shares of United Airlines dipped in extended trading despite the carrier saying it expected full-year profit at the high end of its prior forecast, as the company's third-quarter outlook was short of Wall Street expectations.</p></body>

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UnitedHealth Group’s stock fell hard in 2025. When the healthcare insurer reports second-quarter results Thursday, the company’s 2026 bounceback has investors eager for confirmation that medical spending trends are in hand. UnitedHealth has notched a series of wins heading into earnings season.

Cooler-than-expected producer prices contributed to hopes for easing inflation on Wednesday.

MONTREAL, July 15 (Reuters) - Quebec would partner with Canada and Airbus, if the planemaker moves ahead with a proposed plan to stretch its smallest jet, a spokesperson for the Canadian province's

On July 15, 2026, airlines are in focus as results will show the impacts of high fuel prices.