Stephen Miran, Donald Trump’s new appointee on the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate-setting board, has doubled down on his calls for the central bank to more aggressively cut interest rates.Last week, the Fed cut interest rates by a quarter point, bringing rates down to a range of 4% to 4.25% – the lowest it’s been since early 2023. Out of 12 voting board members, Miran was the only one to vote against the crowd. He wanted a half-point cut, not a quarter-point cut.Miran told the Economics Club of New York th ...

Nvidia, the chipmaking company, will invest up to $100bn in OpenAI and provide it with data center chips, the companies said on Monday, a tie-up between two of the highest-profile leaders in the global artificial intelligence race.The deal, which will see Nvidia start delivering chips as soon as late 2026, will involve two separate but intertwined transactions, according to a person close to OpenAI. The startup will pay Nvidia in cash for chips, and Nvidia will invest in OpenAI for non-controlling shares, t ...

Just hours after an appeals court ruled that it was illegal for Donald Trump to impose his unpopular across-the-board tariffs on dozens of countries, he posted a frantic, over-the-top rant that declared: “If allowed to stand, this Decision would literally destroy the United States of America.”So here the president of the United States was asserting that if the courts torpedoed his tariffs, then the US, the most powerful nation on earth, would be destroyed, would “literally” be kaput. Trump seemed to suggest ...

反垄断诉讼 - 美国联邦贸易委员会和七个州指控Live Nation及其票务部门Ticketmaster通过默许票务经纪人大量购买演唱会门票并高价转售 导致粉丝损失数百万美元 [1] - 诉讼指控Ticketmaster控制主要演唱会场地80%的一级票务市场 并在2019至2024年间通过转售费用获得37亿美元收入 [2] - 司法部2024年提起诉讼要求拆分Live Nation和Ticketmaster 指控其在现场演唱会行业垄断市场 [5] 运营行为指控 - Ticketmaster被指控忽视经纪人违反艺术家设定的购票限制 且未提前披露包括费用在内的完整票价 违反消费者保护法 [2] - 公司自2018年起就知晓转售商违反政策 内部邮件显示其"作为政策故意视而不见" [4] - 2022年Taylor Swift时代巡演票务销售出现技术故障 数十亿请求导致网站瘫痪 最终取消公开售票 [4] 市场反应 - 消息公布后Live Nation股价下跌2.3% [1] - 七个州联合在加州提起诉讼 包括科罗拉多 佛罗里达 伊利诺伊 内布拉斯加 田纳西 犹他和弗吉尼亚 [3]

The value of the drugmaker Novo Nordisk jumped by about £9bn on Thursday after research showed that taking its new anti-obesity pill can result in almost as much weight loss as its Wegovy jab.The Danish company is racing against its US rival Eli Lilly to get a tablet treatment to market. Shares in Novo Nordisk climbed by more than 6% on hopes that it can claw back market share lost to Eli Lilly and cheaper generic versions of GLP-1 drugs.The shares had fallen by nearly 60% in the past year as sales slowed a ...

Nvidia, the world’s leading chipmaker, announced plans to invest $5bn in Intel and collaborate with the struggling semiconductor company on products.One month after the Trump administration confirmed it had taken a 10% stake in Intel – the latest extraordinary intervention by the White House in corporate America – Nvidia said it would team up with the firm to work on custom data centers that form the backbone of artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, as well as personal computer products.Shares in Int ...

The Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Jerry Greenfield has stepped away from the ice-cream brand after nearly 50 years, claiming it has lost its independence and accusing its parent company, Unilever, of having “silenced” its social mission.Greenfield said in a letter posted by his co-founder, Ben Cohen, that he could no longer “in good conscience” remain an employee of a business that he argued had been muzzled by the UK-listed Unilever, despite an agreement protecting its social mission when it was taken over in 2 ...

投资计划 - 谷歌将在未来两年内在英国投资50亿英镑用于资本支出、研发和工程相关领域 [1][3] - 投资将帮助满足人工智能服务不断增长的需求 包括通过Google DeepMind在科学和医疗保健领域进行开创性AI研究 [1][3] - 谷歌母公司Alphabet在2025财年的资本支出预算从先前估计的750亿英镑增加到约850亿美元 [7] 经济与就业影响 - 此项投资预计将每年为英国企业创造8,250个就业岗位 [4] - 英国财政大臣称该投资是对英国经济的"信心投票" 将创造就业和经济增长 [2][9] - 投资旨在帮助英国发展AI经济 促进技术突破和网络安全改进 [4] 基础设施与运营 - 谷歌在赫特福德郡沃尔瑟姆克罗斯开设了新数据中心 [1] - 财政大臣将正式为该公司在沃尔瑟姆克罗斯的首个英国数据中心揭幕 [4] - 谷歌将与壳牌合作管理其在英国的可再生能源供应 [5] 行业动态与市场地位 - 据报道 OpenAI和英伟达本周也将宣布对英国数据中心进行价值数十亿美元的投资 [3] - Alphabet成为第四家市值超过3万亿美元的公司 与英伟达、微软和苹果并列 [8] - 本月早些时候 Alphabet股价强劲上涨 因法院裁决避免了美国竞争监管机构寻求的最严厉裁决 [8]

Elon Musk, the Tesla CEO, has purchased nearly $1bn worth of the electric-vehicle maker’s stock, a regulatory filing showed, reinforcing Musk’s push for greater control over Tesla.Tesla shares jumped more than 8% in premarket trading on Monday following the news.Tesla is racing to meet its ambitious targets on robotaxis, artificial intelligence and robotics as it looks to pivot from an EV maker to a tech leader. As of December, Musk held a roughly 13% stake, according to LSEG data.Musk disclosed buying 2.57 ...

Paramount Skydance is reportedly preparing a takeover offer for Warner Bros Discovery, in a bid to pull together two of the largest US legacy media conglomerates and Hollywood movie studios.Less than a month after Skydance, a production firm run by David Ellison, son of the billionaire tech mogul Larry Ellison, closed its merger with Paramount, the firm is considering other blockbuster deals.Paramount is preparing a majority cash bid for WBD that would be backed by the Ellison family, according to the Wall ...