Energy
Altman, Huang and the last-minute negotiations that sealed the $100 billion OpenAI-Nvidia deal
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI (L), and Jensen Huang CEO of Nvidia. Reuters ABILENE, Texas – Sam Altman had a deadline. OpenAI’s CEO was headed to Texas to unveil his company’s next big infrastructure push, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang wanted in on the action. Through a series of hurried negotiations, late-night calls and last-minute […]
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Orsted shares jump 7% after U.S. court overturns Trump project block
Burbo Bank, Liverpool Bay, England, viewed from the sea turbines on Burbo wind farm off the U.K. coast. Ucg | Universal Images Group | Getty Images Shares of Danish renewables giant Orsted jumped on Tuesday, after a U.S. judge ruled the embattled firm can resume construction of an offshore wind farm that was halted by […]
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New England wind farm construction to restart after court blocks Trump order to stop work
Attendees during a media tour of the Revolution Wind construction hub at the Port of Providence in Providence, Rhode Island, US, on Thursday, June 13, 2024. Adam Glanzman | Bloomberg | Getty Images Danish renewable energy company Orsted will restart work “as soon as possible” on a wind farm off the coast of New England, […]
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Saudi defense pact with Pakistan unlikely to disrupt oil flows to India, source says
An oil tanker delivers at the oil terminal in the harbor on Oct. 10, 2016, in Kochi, India. Kaveh Kazemi | Getty Images News | Getty Images Saudi Arabia’s new mutual defense pact with Pakistan is unlikely to alter Riyadh’s energy relationship with key consumer India, a source told CNBC. Asked whether India would continue […]
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Trump wields ‘golden share’ to halt U.S. Steel plant shutdown, WSJ reports
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., Sept. 19, 2025. Ken Cedeno | Reuters The Trump administration stepped in to stop U.S. Steel from idling operations at its Granite City, Ill., plant, exercising new powers tied to the company’s recent takeover, the Wall Street Journal […]
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Wall Street eyeing one big trade after Fed rate cut: Commodities
Commodities could soar after the Federal Reserve’s quarter-point interest rate cut this week, though this will depend on whether the U.S. manages to avoid a recession, according to JPMorgan. “Historically, commodities have generated positive returns both leading up to and following the first Fed cut,” JPMorgan analysts led by Natasha Kaneva told clients in a […]
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OpenAI leads private market surge as 7 tech startups reach combined $1.3 trillion valuation
Three years ago, Sam Altman lit the fuse for what’s become the most explosive bull run in the history of tech startups with the launch of ChatGPT. Along with OpenAI’s rapid rise to a $500 billion valuation, other prominent names like SpaceX, Anthropic and Anduril have seen astronomical markups of late. In total, a basket […]
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Google might lose its $26 billion search deals. Analysts say that could fuel its AI growth
Any day now, a federal judge is expected to issue a landmark ruling that could upend some of the most lucrative deals in Silicon Valley: Google’s default search contracts. At stake is more than $26 billion a year, $20 billion of which goes to Apple. That’s nearly a quarter of Alphabet’s operating income. For decades, […]
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Trump’s Cook firing will likely end up in the Supreme Court’s hands
Key Points President Donald Trump’s attempt to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook will likely end up before the Supreme Court, Wall Street economists and analysts say. The Federal Reserve Act allows presidents to remove Fed governors “for cause,” but the statute is ambiguous about what this means. If Trump successfully ousts Cook, he would be […]
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Orsted shares tumble 17% as U.S. government halts wind project construction
View of an offshore wind energy park during a press moment of Orsted, on Tuesday 06 August 2024, on the transportation of goods with Heavy Lift Cargo Drones to the offshore wind turbines in the Borssele 1 and 2 wind farm in Zeeland, Netherlands. Nicolas Maeterlinck | Afp | Getty Images Shares in wind farm […]
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