Year: 2025
Travel demand has come back very strongly, says Star Alliance CEO
ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via Email Theo Panagiotoulias, CEO of Star Alliance, talks about the post-pandemic rebound in the travel sector, and some of the key regions and routes he’s watching in 2025. Source
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Bezos sees no threat from Musk-Trump ties in the space race
Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, left, and Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos. Getty Images Jeff Bezos in an interview with Reuters on Sun,day said he does not think SpaceX CEO Elon Musk will use his close ties with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to undercut his space company Blue Origin, adding he feels “very […]
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CNBC Daily Open: Good news need not always be bad news for markets
A job and resource fair hosted by the Mountain Area Workforce Development Board in partnership with NCWorks in Hendersonville, North Carolina, U.S., on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. Allison Joyce | Bloomberg | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on […]
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Asia-Pacific markets set to open lower after strong U.S. jobs report clouds Fed rate-cut path
Aerial view of the Shanghai financial district skyscrapers and the Huangpu river at sunset. Tobiasjo | E+ | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets were set to open lower Monday, after U.S. jobs report on Friday dampened investors’ hopes for early interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 traded 0.99% lower. Hong Kong’s Hang […]
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Stock futures are little changed as Wall Street gears up for key economic data and the kickoff of earnings season: Live updates
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on the last day of trading for the year on Dec. 31, 2024 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Stock futures were little changed on Sunday as investors look toward a data-heavy week, which includes the December report on U.S. inflation […]
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This 36-year-old sci-fi ‘nerd’ quit his banking job to start a deep space startup that has raised $24 million
Rohit Jha, 36, is the co-founder and CEO of Transcelestial. Courtesy of Rohit Jha Rohit Jha calls himself a “huge nerd.” He developed a deep love for computers, space and ultimately science fiction in his early years. Jha spent much of his childhood and adolescence coding games on a secondhand computer, star-gazing through a telescope […]
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LA fires could hit European insurance giants with about billion euros in losses
The wildfires around Los Angeles are set to cost European insurance giants up to a billion euros in payouts this year. Millions of people have been displaced, thousands of homes and buildings have been destroyed and at least five people have been reported dead due to the wildfires. While total economic loss due to the […]
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Britain seeks to build homegrown rival to OpenAI in bid to become world leader in artificial intelligence
Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer gives a media interview while attending the 79th United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, U.S. September 25, 2024. Leon Neal | Via Reuters LONDON — The U.K is looking to build a homegrown challenger to OpenAI and drastically increase national computing infrastructure, as Prime […]
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Croatia’s Milanovic on track to win presidential vote, exit poll says
Croatian President and presidential candidate Zoran Milanovic votes at a polling station during the presidential election, in Zagreb, Croatia, on Dec. 29, 2024. Antonio Bronic | Reuters Croatian President Zoran Milanovic is on track for a landslide victory that will secure him a second term in the largely ceremonial post, an exit poll showed. Milanovic […]
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U.S. military is ready to respond to California wildfires, FEMA’s Criswell said
The U.S. military is prepared to deploy to help contain the wildfires that have devastated Los Angeles, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Deanne Criswell said Sunday. “There are active duty military personnel that are on a ‘prepare to deploy’ order, that are ready to go in and continue to support the firefighting effort,” in an interview […]
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