China’s Shein files for US IPO in major test for investor appetite- sources

China’s Shein files for US IPO in major test for investor appetite- sources

Shein yet to determine IPO size, valued at over $60 bln in May IPO comes amid challenging markets and U.S. scrutiny Fast-fashion retailers still behind Amazon on sales Nov 27 (Reuters) – Fashion company Shein has confidentially filed to go public in the United States, two sources familiar with the matter said on Monday, in … Read more

Budget crisis shakes industry’s confidence in Germany

Budget crisis shakes industry’s confidence in Germany

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is flanked by Economy and Climate Minister Robert Habeck and Finance Minister Christian Lindner to comment on the ruling of Germany’s Constitutional court that the government’s re-location of 60 billion euros ($65 billion USD) of unused debt from the pandemic era to climate fund was illegal, in… Acquire Licensing Rights Read … Read more

Mideast wealth funds draw US scrutiny over China ties – Bloomberg News

Mideast wealth funds draw US scrutiny over China ties – Bloomberg News

Nov 24 (Reuters) – Middle Eastern wealth funds are facing greater U.S. scrutiny as part of a pushback on entities potentially having closer ties to China, Bloomberg News reported on Friday. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States is reviewing more than half a dozen deals on concerns of national security risks, including … Read more

India stocks set to hit new highs in 2024 as economy hums

India stocks set to hit new highs in 2024 as economy hums

A man walks past the new logo of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) building in Mumbai, India, July 12, 2023. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas Acquire Licensing Rights BENGALURU, Nov 22 (Reuters) – India’s stock market will hit new highs in the next six months and rise over 10% from here by end-2024, driven by a sustained expansion … Read more

Exclusive: OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster, sources say

Exclusive: OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster, sources say

[1/2]Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, arrives for a bipartisan Artificial Intelligence (AI) Insight Forum for all U.S. senators hosted by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., September 13, 2023. REUTERS/Julia Nikhinson/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights Nov 22 (Reuters) – Ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s four … Read more

India stocks set to hit new highs in 2024 as economy hums – Reuters poll

India stocks set to hit new highs in 2024 as economy hums – Reuters poll

A man walks past the new logo of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) building in Mumbai, India, July 12, 2023. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas Acquire Licensing Rights BENGALURU, Nov 22 (Reuters) – India’s stock market will hit new highs in the next six months and rise over 10% from here by end-2024, driven by a sustained expansion … Read more

Wall St ends down after recent gains; retailers, tech weak

Wall St ends down after recent gains; retailers, tech weak

Best Buy down on weak outlook Kohl’s slips on quarterly sales miss NEW YORK, Nov 21 (Reuters) – U.S. stocks retreated on Tuesday and the S&P 500 snapped a five-session winning streak, with retailers down after some disappointing outlooks and technology shares falling. Indexes stayed lower after minutes from the latest Federal Reserve meeting showed … Read more

GM’s Cruise robo-taxi CEO resigns from company

GM’s Cruise robo-taxi CEO resigns from company

Kyle Vogt, chief technology officer, president & co-founder of Cruise, a Honda and General Motors self-driving car partnership, speaks on stage at the launch of the Cruise Origin autonomous vehicle in San Francisco, California, U.S. January 21, 2020. REUTERS/Stephen Lam/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights Nov 19 – The CEO of General Motors’ robot-taxi unit Cruise, … Read more

Ousted OpenAI CEO Altman planning new AI venture, sources say

Ousted OpenAI CEO Altman planning new AI venture, sources say

Sam Altman, CEO of Microsoft-backed OpenAI and ChatGPT creator speaks during a talk at Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv, Israel June 5, 2023. REUTERS/Amir Cohen/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights Nov 18 (Reuters) – Sam Altman, the recently ousted CEO of OpenAI, has been working on a new artificial intelligence venture he is planning to … Read more

Cheap yuan catapults China to second-biggest trade funding currency

Cheap yuan catapults China to second-biggest trade funding currency

SHANGHAI/SINGAPORE, Nov 17 (Reuters) – Global companies are making a beeline for China’s debt markets, issuing record amounts of yuan-denominated bonds and borrowing heavily from mainland banks, capitalising on rock-bottom yuan interest rates as funding costs elsewhere jump. Companies and banks are raising record amounts of cash through yuan bonds issued in mainland China and … Read more