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IBM said on Thursday it has committed $5 billion to an initiative that will deploy engineers and AI tools ‌to help companies better secure open source software. The initiative, called ‌Project Lightwell, seeks to create a "clearinghouse" for open source security, establishing a model for managing ​risks across the software supply chain. Open source software is freely available code that anyone can use and modify, and powers the technology systems of most companies.

May 27 (Reuters) - Robinhood will allow customers to deploy AI agents to trade stocks on its platform and make purchases ‌on its credit card, the company said on Wednesday. The company ‌said its users will be able to create a dedicated trading account, separate from their primary ​one, and have their AI agents trade on their behalf.

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SpaceX's planned IPO would more than triple the U.S. record. Here's how past mega-listings have performed.

By Jesús Aguado and Valentina Za MADRID/MILAN, May 22 (Reuters) - Europe's push to curb its dependence on U.S. payments giants Visa and Mastercard has driven a wedge between the European Central Bank

Cash is suddenly king again on Wall Street. With recession fears lingering, interest rates still elevated, and consumers showing signs of fatigue, corporate America has been preparing for rougher weather ahead. Few companies have prepared more aggressively than Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK-A)(NYSE:BRK-B). The conglomerate ended the first quarter sitting on a staggering $397.6 billion cash pile, ... Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Just More Than Tripled Its Stake in Alphabet

Berkshire Hathaway more than tripled the size of its investment in Google's parent company and bought over $2.6 billion worth of Delta Airlines stock as Greg Abel settled into the CEO job after taking over from Warren Buffett at the start of the year. The conglomerate also dumped a number of other stocks, including Visa, Mastercard, Domino's Pizza, Amazon and United Healthcare after the departure late last year of Todd Combs, who was one of the two investment mangers Buffett hired to help manage the portfolio. Buffett was always reluctant to invest in tech companies because he said he didn't understand them well enough to predict the long-term winners.

Here's what investing conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway was buying and selling during the first quarter, the first period for Greg Abel at the helm since succeeding Warren Buffett as CEO. Delta Air Lines: Berkshire bought a sizable stake worth around $2.

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Financial disclosures for US President Donald Trump showed hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of transactions involving securities in major...

Financial disclosures for US President Donald Trump showed hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of transactions involving securities in major...

Financial disclosures for US President Donald Trump showed hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of transactions involving securities in major...

Wall Street braces for what could be the largest stock market debut in history, but the most cited academic on US IPO performance is warning buyers to sit on their hands. SpaceX is reportedly targeting a valuation of roughly $1.75 trillion in its planned offering, and Reuters this morning lined the deal up against three ... The Professor Who Tracks Every US IPO Just Issued a Warning on SpaceX: “Most of the Time, Things Don’t Go According to Plan.”

SpaceX is targeting a valuation of roughly $1.75 trillion in its upcoming ‌initial public offering, in what could be the ‌biggest-ever stock market debut by a U.S. company on Wall Street. The ​listing of Elon Musk-led SpaceX could easily dwarf many of the biggest U.S. IPOs on record, including those of Alibaba, Visa and Facebook, now Meta Platforms, which analysts ‌say reflects high growth ⁠expectations from the rocket and satellite company that it may struggle to meet. Analysts ‌say SpaceX's proposed valuation reflects in part how much investors are being asked to pay for future growth.

The country's largest credit card companies saw first-quarter spending increase 7% year over year to $1.1 trillion.

SpaceX is gearing up for what could be the largest IPO ever. What does history have to teach us?

Brazil is a politically divided country, but there's one thing that those on all sides of the political spectrum love: PIX, the country's instant payment system that allows users to pay for everything, from ice cream on the beach to clothes in a shopping mall and even a car. Unlike payment apps run by private banks, PIX is governed Brazil's Central Bank. “The best (payment method) is PIX, the most used,” said Luis Felipe de Almeida, a 21-year-old vendor of iced tea and cassava starch biscuits on Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro.

President Trump has just landed in Beijing ahead of a two-day summit with Xi Jinping. More than a dozen top U.S. business leaders have also made the trip. Notable names include Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (a late addition) and Elon Musk, the CEO of both Tesla and SpaceX.

8.45am: US CPI rises to three-year high US inflation last month was the highest in three years, due to rising energy, housing and food prices. The US consumer price index was up 3.8% year on year in April, up from 3.26% the month before. Month-on-month, CPI increased 0.6%, easing from...

By Eduardo Baptista and Laurie Chen BEIJING, May 12 (Reuters) - From Meta to Tesla and BlackRock, the U.S. business delegation for President Donald Trump's summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping this

Elo plans US listing in the second half of this year and could seek to raise up to $500m.

Elo plans US listing in the second half of this year and could seek to raise up to $500m.

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More than a dozen top U.S. business leaders will travel to China for President Trump’s visit this week with Chinese President Xi Jinping, representing various American industries from finance to manufacturing.

Elon Musk, Apple's Tim Cook, GE Aerospace's Larry Culp and ‌Boeing's Kelly Ortberg will join U.S. President Donald Trump on his visit ‌to China this week, a White House official told Reuters. Others taking part include Meta's Dina ​Powell McCormick, Blackrock's Larry Fink, Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman, Cisco's Chuck Robbins, Micron's Sanjay Mehrota, Mastercard'ss Michael Miebach, Qualcomm's Christiano Amon and Visa's Ryan McInerney, the official said.

Visa's business is continuing to expand even as high oil prices lead Wall Street to worry about a recession.

The credit card giant is still an evergreen investment.

Moby summary of AMN Healthcare Services, Inc.'s Q1 2026 earnings call

Jack Dorsey-led Block raised its full-year outlook on Thursday as the payments firm benefited from resilient ‌consumer spending and strong growth in its core businesses. The ‌Oakland, California-based company now expects annual gross profit to be $12.33 billion in 2026, compared ​with its previous forecast of $12.20 billion. U.S. consumer spending remained broadly resilient ‌in the first three ⁠months of 2026, underpinned by a stable labor market and wage growth.