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Japan’s core CPI rises 3.4% in April yr/yr – govt
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's core consumer prices rose 3.4% in April from a year earlier, government data showed on Friday. The increase in the core consumer price index (CPI), which excludes volatile fr...
May 18, 2023
Apple restricts use of ChatGPT – WSJ
(Reuters) - Apple Inc has restricted the use of ChatGPT and other external artificial intelligence tools as it develops its own similar technology, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. (Repor...
May 18, 2023
Berkshire Hathaway boosts stake in Occidental Petroleum to 24.4%
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - Berkshire Hathaway Inc said on Thursday it had acquired more shares of Occidental Petroleum Corp, boosting its stake in the oil company to 24.4%. In a regulatory filing...
May 18, 2023
UK plans 1 billion pounds of semiconductor investment in new strategy
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain announced 1 billion pounds ($1.26 billion) of investment for its semiconductor sector on Friday in a long-awaited strategy that aims to strengthen the domestic industry and ...
May 18, 2023
UK consumers turn more confident despite inflation pain – GfK
By Suban Abdulla LONDON (Reuters) - British consumer confidence has risen for the fourth month in a row to its highest in 15 months as households take a more positive view about the economy and their ...
May 18, 2023
US State Department wants to speed weapons export process
By Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of State said on Thursday it wants to update internal processes for the tens of billions worth of foreign military sales it oversees each year ...
May 18, 2023
US House hardliners could try to block debt-ceiling deal without ‘robust’ cuts
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden and Republican U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy have voiced growing confidence about striking a debt-ceiling deal to avoid a catastrophic de...
May 18, 2023
Argentina president, protesters slam IMF debt, austerity as economy creaks
(Corrects bylines) By Horacio Soria and Claudia Martini BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -Argentine President Alberto Fernandez and protesters in Buenos Aires pushed back against the International Monetary Fund...
May 18, 2023
UPDATE: Pekin Police mourn ‘sudden’ death of officer
UPDATED 8:41 A.M. 5/19/23 PEKIN, Ill. – Pekin Police say they are morning the death of one of their officers. Chief John Dossey says in a statement the officer died “suddenly and unexpecte...
May 18, 2023
Disney to close Star Wars hotel that opened in Florida last year
By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co will shutter its immersive Star Wars-themed luxury hotel in Orlando this September, less than two years after it opened, as the media giant cuts...
May 18, 2023
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