Tuesday’s trading session saw Microsoft close at a record high of $360.53 on the back of renewed growth expectations from a significant artificial intelligence partner. The software maker’s market value has increased by 1.12% per day to approximately $2.68 trillion. All the main American indexes saw gains for the day; the S&P 500 saw its…
Francesca Carlesi, a former executive at Barclays, has been named as the new CEO of Revolut, a European FinTech company, effective Thursday. Carlesi, who has fifteen years of experience in the financial services industry and was previously employed at Deutsche Bank, was most recently the CEO of Molo Finance, a digital mortgage lender. Revolut’s spokesperson…
The United Kingdom’s government announced that it will invest £225 million, or $273 million, in artificial intelligence supercomputer. This move underscores the nation’s goal of becoming the technological leader as it tries to catch up to China and the United States. The supercomputer, named Isambard-AI after the British engineer of the 19th century, Isambard Brunel,…
In a consultation paper, the U.K. government confirmed its intentions to regulate the cryptocurrency market, stating that it hopes to introduce formal legislation by 2024. The government released a response to a consultation paper that contained suggestions for regulating the cryptocurrency sector and was published earlier this year. The government stated in the paper that…
As optimistic investors assessed the possibility that the United States will finally see a bitcoin ETF in the upcoming months, cryptocurrency prices briefly soared to start the week. An unconfirmed report that the Securities and Exchange Commission had officially approved the iShares spot bitcoin ETF caused bitcoin to briefly spike above $30,000 on Monday morning….
Activision Blizzard’s $69 billion acquisition by Microsoft has been completed, the company announced in a regulatory filing on Friday. It’s the biggest deal Microsoft has ever made in its 48-year history, and it comes after the company allayed regulators’ concerns about competition in the U.K. and Europe and won a favorable decision from a U.S….
Inflation remained a top concern for policymakers in September as consumer prices increased at a slightly faster-than-anticipated rate for a variety of goods and services. According to a recently released Labor Department report, the consumer price index increased 0.4% from the previous month and 3.7% from the previous year. The corresponding Dow Jones estimates were…
More than expected, US wholesale price inflation increased by 0.5% in September. Unexpectedly, high wholesale price growth in September was a sign of brewing inflationary pressures for the American economy. The Labor Department reported on Wednesday that the producer price index, which measures the costs for finished goods that producers pay, increased by 0.5% for…
The International Monetary Fund released its latest World Economic Outlook on Tuesday, revising its US growth forecast while predicting a slowdown in expansion in the Eurozone. The IMF has raised its forecast for U.S. growth this year to 2.1%, an increase of 0.3 points from the latest estimate in July. The outlook for next year…
An economic indicator that the Federal Reserve uses as a measure of inflation rose less than expected in August, showing that the central bank’s fight against rising prices is making progress. The personal consumption expenditures price index, which excludes food and energy, rose 0.1% in the month, less than the 0.2% rise expected in the…
