Month: August 2024
Schumer says a crypto bill can pass Senate this year; key Dems join ‘Crypto4Harris’ call
US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer presents US Vice President Kamala Harris with a “golden gavel” after she cast her 32nd tie-breaking vote in the Senate, the most ever cast by a Vice President, at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, December 5, 2023. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images Senate Majority Leader Chuck […]
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China reports slight beat in July retail sales, but industrial data disappoint
Pictured here are cars ready for export at the Haitong Automobile Terminal depot in Taicang Port, Suzhou, Jiangsu province of China on Aug. 10, 2024. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images BEIJING — China’s retail sales grew more than expected in July, while industrial production missed forecasts, the National Bureau of Statistics said Thursday. Retail […]
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China’s bond market intervention reveals financial stability worries
People walk past the headquarters of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), the central bank, in Beijing, China September 28, 2018. Jason Lee | Reuters BEIJING — China’s latest efforts to stem a bond market rally reveals wider worries among authorities about financial stability, analysts said. Slow economic growth and tight capital controls have concentrated […]
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Asia-Pacific markets mostly climb as Japan’s GDP growth beats expectations; China economic data on deck
Shipping containers are loaded onto an international freighter at the international cargo terminal in Tokyo. Yoshikazu Tsuno | AFP | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets were largely rose on Thursday after Japan’s GDP growth beat expectations, and also tracking Wall Street stocks that rose overnight after U.S. inflation data met market expectations. U.S. consumer prices increased 2.9% […]
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Columbia University president resigns months after Israel-Hamas war protests roiled campus
Columbia University President Nemat “Minouche” Shafik testifies before a House Education and the Workforce Committee hearing on “Columbia University’s Response to Antisemitism,” on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., April 17, 2024. Ken Cedeno | Reuters The president of Columbia University announced her resignation Wednesday after a little more than a year on the job, following […]
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Japan second-quarter GDP beats expectations, expands 0.8% from previous quarter
Pedestrians cross an intersection in the Shibuya district of Tokyo, Japan, on Tuesday, April 25, 2023. Photographer: Kentaro Takahashi/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Japan’s second-quarter gross domestic product beat analysts’ expectations on Thursday, both on a quarter-on-quarter as well as an annualized basis. GDP rose 0.8% quarter on quarter compared […]
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20 analysts raised their price targets on this Asian AI-linked stock in the past 2 weeks
One under-the-radar stock linked to the artificial intelligence supply chain — particularly Nvidia’s — is a hot favorite among analysts right now. That’s Taiwan-listed Delta Electronics , an electronics manufacturing firm. Twenty analysts raised their price targets for the stock, none lowered it and only one kept it unchanged it in the past two weeks, […]
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UBS reveals its most and least preferred Asian tech stocks — giving 2 over 100% upside
Asia’s tech stocks have taken a hit from the recent tech sell-off, but UBS sees promise in the sector, naming its most — and least — preferred stocks in it. “Bottom up, we do not believe the Tech outlook has dramatically changed,” the investment bank’s analysts led by Nicolas Gaudois wrote in an Aug. 6 […]
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Starbucks is giving incoming CEO Brian Niccol $85 million in cash and stock for leaving Chipotle
Brian Niccol, CEO of Chipotle Anjali Sundaram | CNBC Starbucks offered incoming CEO and Chair Brian Niccol a pay bump and hefty one-time awards to lure him from his prior role as chief executive at Chipotle Mexican Grill. Niccol officially takes the reins at the embattled coffee chain on Sept. 9. As CEO, he’ll be […]
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Why NASA astronauts are waiting to return on Boeing’s Starliner
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, left, and Suni Williams pose inside the hatch connecting Boeing’s Starliner to the International Space Station on NASA Log entry: Day 71. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are waiting. Boeing is waiting. And throughout the halls of NASA, leaders and engineers are gathering, analyzing and deliberating. Boeing’s Starliner capsule “Calypso” has […]
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