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A group of activist shareholders and workplace and church-based pension funds have kept up pressure on the UK banks previously leading on climate initiatives over their policy changes, taking a stand at their annual meetings.The re-election of NatWest chair Rick Haythornthwaite at its meeting on Tuesday showed signs of a protest vote with support down to 92.1 per cent compared with 97.63 per cent the previous year, based on provisional results.Church of England Pensions Board director of climate and the environment Laura Hillis said the vote reflected a level of disappointment, particularly among individual minority shareholders.“It doesn’t sound that low…
A UPS driver sits in his truck on April 15, 2026 in the Flatbush neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough in New York City.Michael M. Santiago | Getty ImagesUnited Parcel Service on Tuesday posted first-quarter earnings results that beat on the top and bottom lines.Shares of the delivery giant sank roughly 5% in premarket trading.Here’s how the company performed in its first quarter, compared with what Wall Street was expecting, based on a survey of analysts by LSEG:Earnings per share: $1.07 adjusted vs. $1.02 expectedRevenue: $21.2 billion vs. $20.99 billion expectedFor the quarter ended March 31, UPS reported net income of…
April 28 (Reuters) – The Federal Communications Commission is moving toward a review of ’s broadcast licenses, Semafor reported on Tuesday, a development that could pressure the ABC owner amid a row between the White House and late-night host Jimmy Kimmel. The FCC could accelerate reviews of licenses held by broadcast television stations, agency Chair Brendan Carr told Reuters last month, as he intensifies efforts to investigate news media companies and faces pressure from President Donald Trump. Carr noted that the FCC has a number of investigations into various broadcasters, including NBC, ABC, PBS and National Public Radio. The Commission…
These days, the hype is all about AI and robots, but almost a decade ago, the tech du jour was self-driving. You couldn’t swing a lanyard at CES for the latter half of the last decade without hitting a robotaxi; post-COVID, the number of startups has shrunk, but the technology has definitely matured. Go to the right cities—San Francisco and Austin, Texas, spring to mind—and you might see dozens of sensor-festooned vehicles among the downtown traffic. The pod-like robotaxis belonging to Zoox stand out. Other robotaxi developers are retrofitting existing vehicles like Hyundai Ioniq 5s with sensors and the computing…
Asked if it that was appropriate given the men had known Lord Mandelson for many years, McSweeney replied: “I think that when I look back on it, I certainly think it would have been much, much better if I’d asked PET to ask those follow-up questions.” Source link
From co-founders to a feud: How a decade changed thingsElon Musk and Sam Altman speak onstage in October 2015 at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit in San Francisco, California.Michael Kovac | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty ImagesMusk and Altman were close friends when they were among a group of techies who started OpenAI in 2015 as a nonprofit lab, “to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return.” Three years later, Musk was out, after a failed effort to acquire OpenAI at his electric…
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Shares of Swedish audio-streamer Spotify fell 9% in premarket trading after soft guidance overshadowed an earnings beat.The New York-listed stock fell as much as 12% following earnings before the bell before paring some of the losses.First-quarter revenue rose 8% from last year to 4.5 billion euros ($5.3 billion), while monthly active users (MAUs) rose 12% year-on-year to 761 million, both slightly above FactSet estimates.Premium subscribers grew 9% to 293 million, reflecting 3 million quarterly net adds, Spotify said. For the current quarter, Spotify expects to add 17 million net users to reach 778 million MAUs. It expects to grow its premium…
Earlier, Sir Philip Barton, the top civil servant at the Foreign Office at the time, told the committee Downing Street had been “uninterested” in the vetting process and the focus was on making sure Lord Mandelson was able to start his job by the time of Donald Trump’s inauguration. Source link
A “For Lease” sign in the Financial District of San Francisco, California, US, on Wednesday, May 3, 2023. Jason Henry | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesA version of this article first appeared in the CNBC Property Play newsletter with Diana Olick. Property Play covers new and evolving opportunities for the real estate investor, from individuals to venture capitalists, private equity funds, family offices, institutional investors and large public companies. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox.Despite the war with Iran and continued economic uncertainty in the U.S., demand for office space is recovering at a strong clip. In the first quarter…