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India's 2026-27 budget introduces a temporary tax exemption allowing foreign companies to own capital equipment used by contract manufacturers in customs-bonded zones without creating taxable income in India. The change, effective through the 2030-31 tax year for bonded-area factories, removes a key barrier that had forced manufacturers to buy mach…
Capgemini announced it is selling its U.S. arm, Capgemini Government Solutions, after facing pressure to explain a contract with U.S. immigration enforcement agency ICE. The company said U.S. legal constraints tied to contracting with federal entities conducting classified activities limited its ability to control certain aspects of the subsidiary …
Wall Street research teams published a string of notable analyst notes this week that altered price targets and revenue forecasts across several sectors. Needham turned bullish on AppLovin, hiking its ecommerce outlook for 2026; BWS initiated coverage of American Axle with a Buy while detailing the strategic implications of a merger with Dowlais; M…
Negotiators for the United Steelworkers and Marathon Petroleum met on Saturday, hours before a national four-year contract was due to expire, but the union rejected a Marathon offer that would have increased wages by 13% over four years. Core disputes include cost-of-living adjustments, healthcare costs, standards for artificial intelligence use at…
During a widely publicized visit to Taiwan, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang praised the island's technology firms, urged major suppliers to increase production to meet surging AI demand and warned of memory supply constraints. He attended a "trillion-dollar" suppliers' dinner, highlighted anticipated capacity growth at TSMC, and mingled with fans throughou…
A judicial misconduct complaint filed by the U.S. Justice Department against Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has been dismissed by a federal appeals court judicial council. The complaint, announced in July by Attorney General Pam Bondi, centered on comments Boasberg was said to have made during a Judicial Conference meeting. Chief U.S. Cir…
Russia's equity market closed with a flat MOEX Russia Index, even as more stocks rose than fell. A handful of names posted modest gains while several large-cap issues slipped. Volatility measures were stable, and commodities and currency pairs posted mixed moves at the session's end. The source report did not specify which sectors led the intraday …
Reports emerged that Ford engaged in talks with Chinese EV maker Xiaomi about a potential joint venture to build electric vehicles in the United States. Ford has called the report "completely false," and both Ford and Xiaomi did not immediately respond to follow-up requests for comment. The episode has revived concerns among U.S. automakers and som…
British eVTOL manufacturer Vertical Aerospace brought its Valo demonstrator to New York as the first stop on a U.S. tour that follows the aircraft's December 2025 unveiling in London. CEO Stuart Simpson described 2025 as a year of execution, laid out near-term technical steps including piloted transition and hybrid-electric flight tests, reiterated…
SpaceX has filed with the Federal Communications Commission for authority to deploy a constellation of up to 1 million satellites that would harness near-constant solar energy to operate AI data centers in orbit. The filing was posted a day after reports that SpaceX and xAI have been discussing a potential merger ahead of an anticipated public offe…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the company will make a "huge" investment in OpenAI, rejecting characterizations that he was unhappy with the artificial intelligence developer. Huang confirmed Nvidia will participate in OpenAI’s capital raise and hinted the contribution may be the largest investment the chipmaker has ever made, while saying the amount…
Three months into her leadership, CBS News Editor-in-Chief rolled out a strategy centered on building a commentator roster, boosting podcasts and newsletters, and staging live events to attract younger and independent viewers. The proposal - which includes hiring 19 new commentators and leveraging contributors from her previous venture - has drawn …
Bank of America’s 2026 thematic outlook identifies five priorities for online travel agencies, placing agentic AI at the forefront. The bank anticipates broad rollout of end-to-end AI booking tools in 2026, a modest cyclical uplift in U.S. bookings aided by favorable comparisons and the FIFA World Cup, intensified platform competition, faster growt…
A significant winter storm that blanketed large portions of the central and eastern United States disrupted air travel, producing tens of thousands of cancellations. Bank of America analysts estimate more than 22,000 cancelled flights across mainline and regional carriers, with American Airlines hardest hit. Several carriers face measurable pre-tax…
Analysts at Needham & Company warn that OpenAI’s decision to introduce advertising into its free and mid-tier Go plans on a CPM basis could force a rebalancing of the intent-driven digital advertising market long dominated by Google and Meta. With an estimated 800 million weekly active users and the potential to generate up to $20 billion in annual…
Major U.S. investment banks continue to outperform large European peers in capital markets, producing higher returns on equity and capturing a disproportionate share of global trading and investment banking activity. European lenders have improved capital bases and grown capital-markets revenues since 2019, but structural constraints and past retre…
BCA Research argues the U.S. dollar will remain the principal currency in global finance for an extended period, citing strong network effects across markets, payments and trade. While the dollar's share of official FX reserves has fallen since 2000 and shifts accelerated after the 2022 freeze of Russian central bank assets, the greenback continues…
Boeing and members of the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) who formerly worked for Spirit AeroSystems approved a new labor contract covering roughly 1,600 white-collar employees. The agreement, effective through late 2030, was ratified by 85% of votes cast and provides a $6,000 ratification bonus, annual wage incre…
Saks Global, which recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, will terminate its 'Saks on Amazon' storefront and shift focus back to directing traffic to Saks.com, a source with direct knowledge said. The partnership, created after Amazon's $475 million investment in 2024 and structured to generate at least $900 million in payments over eight years,…
A federal judge in San Francisco refused on Friday to order Alphabet Inc.'s Google to disgorge $2.36 billion in alleged profits tied to the company’s past collection of user data after a key privacy setting was switched off. The judge also declined to impose a permanent injunction on certain ad-related data practices and rejected a request to decer…
Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger has informed close associates that he intends to step down from the chief executive role and reduce involvement in day-to-day management ahead of his contract's December 31 expiration, according to people familiar with the matter. The company's board is scheduled to meet next week at its Burbank headquarters to consider pot…
Lockheed Martin's Rotary and Mission Systems unit received two contract modifications from U.S. defense agencies totaling $37.9 million. One modification, valued at $18.8 million, adds production and production-management work for a three-dimensional expeditionary long-range radar and raises the underlying contract value to $572.9 million. A separa…
General Dynamics Mission Systems received a $255.1 million hybrid contract from the U.S. Navy to provide development, production, sustainment, modernization and related services for strategic weapon system fire control subsystems serving U.S. SSBNs, U.K. SSBNs and SSGNs. The award includes options valued at $485.3 million, funding across fiscal yea…
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. has been awarded a $50 million U.S. Department of War task order to deliver commercial agile software development services, focused on sustainment and modernization of a suite of Strategy Mission Planning and Execution, Data Fusion, and Visualization applications. Work will be carried out in Bellevue and Offutt Air Fo…
Oracle America Inc. has received an $88,112,197 firm-fixed-price task order to deliver Oracle Cloud service offerings in support of the U.S. Air Force’s Cloud One program. The contract was announced by the U.S. Department of War, was awarded via a sole source acquisition, and assigns the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Hanscom Air Force B…
