Nvidia will remain the gold standard for AI training chips, CEO Jensen Huang told investors, even as rivals push to cut into his market share and one of Nvidia’s major suppliers gave a subdued forecast for AI chip sales. Everyone from OpenAI to Elon Musk’s Tesla rely on Nvidia semiconductors to run their large language […]
By Sherin Elizabeth Varghese (Reuters) – Gold prices eased on Monday as investors awaited more U.S. economic data, while reports from last week showed that inflation was stabilising and lifted hopes for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates later this year. Spot gold was down 0.4% at $2,322.24 per ounce, as of 0320 GMT […]
(Reuters) – The S&P 500 and the Dow futures were little changed on Thursday as investors awaited fresh data to gauge the U.S. labor market strength, while the Nasdaq futures inched higher as gains in AI-favorite Nvidia boosted optimism around the tech sector. A tech rally on Wednesday drove the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq […]
By Sherin Elizabeth Varghese (Reuters) – Gold prices edged lower on Wednesday as the U.S. dollar and Treasury yields held firm ahead of key inflation data, which could offer more clarity on the Federal Reserve’s interest rate trajectory. Spot gold eased 0.2% to $2,356.92 per ounce as of 0334 GMT. Prices had hit an all-time […]
An email Monday night from Donald Trump – subject line: “My farewell message” – carried a fateful warning to his backers. “Tomorrow is my GAG ORDER hearing,” it read. “If things don’t go our way, I could be thrown in jail.” Ominous? Certainly. Dubious? Yes, that too. Trump faced little risk of ending up behind […]
Carl Grant, a Vietnam veteran with dementia, wandered out of a hospital room to charge a cellphone he imagined he had. When he wouldn’t sit still, the police officer escorting Grant body-slammed him, ricocheting the patient’s head off the floor. Taylor Ware, a former Marine and aspiring college student, walked the grassy grounds of an […]
Carl Grant, a Vietnam veteran with dementia, wandered out of a hospital room to charge a cellphone he imagined he had. When he wouldn’t sit still, the police officer escorting Grant body-slammed him, ricocheting the patient’s head off the floor. Taylor Ware, a former Marine and aspiring college student, walked the grassy grounds of an […]
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Legislature reconvened Monday for a somewhat subdued start to the 2024 session given the flurry of legislation passed last year and the one-week countdown to Republicans’ presidential caucuses. Before gaveling in, Iowa Republicans celebrated their trifecta — control of the House, Senate and governor’s mansion — and the […]
AIN EBEL, Lebanon (AP) — Christians in the border villages of south Lebanon prepared for a subdued Christmas under the shadow of the ongoing war in Gaza and its spillover in Lebanon. While in Beirut restaurants were packed and hundreds flocked to Christmas markets in the days leading up to the holiday, in the border […]