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President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the federal government could help struggling Spirit Airlines as the discount carrier faces the possibility of liquidation.Trump told CNBC’s “Squawk Box”: “I don’t mind mergers. I think I’d love somebody to buy Spirit, as an example. You know, Spirit’s in trouble. … Maybe the federal government should help that one out.”Spirit has sought government aid from the Trump administration in recent days, according to people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to speak to the media about the discussions. The request was first reported by aviation news publication The Air Current. The airline…
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Apple CEO Tim Cook laughs with President Donald Trump during a meeting in the White House, Washington, March 6, 2019.Leah Millis | ReutersPresident Donald Trump praised Tim Cook in a lengthy Truth Social post on Tuesday, calling the outgoing Apple CEO an “incredible guy” and boasting that Cook had appealed to him when he needed help. “For me it began with a phone call from Tim at the beginning of my First Term,” Trump wrote. “He had a fairly large problem that only I, as President, could fix.”Trump continued, “When I got the call I said, wow, it’s Tim Apple (Cook!)…
The ‘chill’ follows the sacking of lead civil servant at the Foreign Office Sir Olly Robbins by the prime minister. Source link
British Army Challenger 2 tanks of the 5th Battalion The Rifles stand on truck trailers for transport after the tanks arrived by ship on March 22, 2017 at Paldiski, Estonia. Sean Gallup | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesThis report is from this week’s CNBC’s UK Exchange newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here.The dispatchSpeeches from 80-year old politicians who last served in government more than a quarter of a century ago seldom have an impact.That makes the speech delivered nine days ago by George Robertson, defense secretary in former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s first administration and later the 10th secretary-general of NATO,…
A pedestrian looks at an electronic quotation board showing numbers of the Nikkei 225 index in Tokyo on September 11, 2020.Kazuhiro Nogi | AFP | Getty ImagesJapan’s Nikkei 225 hit a record high on Wednesday as President Donald Trump extended a U.S. ceasefire with Iran, even as other Asia-Pacific markets were broadly lower amid concerns that the Middle East conflict could drag on.”Based on the fact that the Government of Iran is seriously fractured, not unexpectedly so and, upon the request of Field Marshal Asim Munir, and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, of Pakistan, we have been asked to hold our Attack…
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By identifying bugs so efficiently, Holley writes that AI tools like Mythos tilt the cybersecurity balance toward defenders, who benefit when discovering vulnerabilities becomes cheaper for both sides. “Computers were completely incapable of doing this a few months ago, and now they excel at it,” Holley writes. “We have many years of experience picking apart the work of the world’s best security researchers, and Mythos Preview is every bit as capable.” In an interview with Wired, Holley said that, from now on, this kind of AI-aided vulnerability analysis is something that “every piece of software is going to have to…
The White House has discussed offering a financial lifeline to the United Arab Emirates as the U.S. war with Iran wreaks havoc on the Gulf state’s economy, a White House official told CNBC.The UAE has not formally requested a currency swap line, and plans are not currently being drawn up, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity to talk about nonpublic plans. Still, it is being discussed within the administration, the person said. Such a move would provide liquidity in dollars to the oil-rich UAE, but could be politically tenuous for the administration as U.S. consumers grapple with higher…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The European Central Bank has the “luxury” of not needing to rush to raise interest rates, one of its top policymakers has said ahead of a crucial monetary policy meeting next week. Mārtiņš Kazāks, governor of the Bank of Latvia and a member of the ECB’s governing council, told the FT that while “uncertainty remains very high” because of the situation in the Middle East, the “data that we currently see” does not create an urgency to raise interest rates from 2…