Sept 28 (Reuters) – US stock index futures dropped on Monday after President Donald Trump rejected an Iranian proposal to end the conflict, leading to a spike in crude prices that rekindled inflation concerns and drove Treasury yields higher. Iran announced a peace proposal at…
By Alexandra Ulmer and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON, Sept 28 (Reuters) – Corporate donors to US President Donald Trump’s ballroom and participants in business deals brokered by Trump family members are expected to be among the first targets of investigations if Democrats take control of the…
By Douglas Gillison WASHINGTON, Sept 28 (Reuters) – Prediction markets are fast becoming alternative venues for traders to wager on US companies like Tesla and Apple, raising concerns about investor protection and market oversight, according to independent data and regulatory experts. The booming industry pioneered…
MOSCOW, Sept 28 (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Monday that Ukraine was paying the price for its own attacks on Russia in recent months and would continue to do so as Moscow’s forces systematically strike different targets there. On Friday, Putin said Moscow had been…
LONDON, Sept 28 (Reuters) – Britain’s Competition Appeal Tribunal on Monday allowed part of a consumer lawsuit against Apple and Amazon to proceed over claims they restricted competition in the sale of Apple products on Amazon’s UK marketplace. The lawsuit alleges Apple and Amazon agreed…
Sept 28 (Reuters) – French far-right candidate Marine Le Pen and far-left contender Jean-Luc Melenchon are seen reaching a run-off vote in next year’s presidential election in each of five scenarios polled, according to a survey published on Monday. The results of the poll suggest that…
MOSCOW, Sept 28 (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Monday that arms control talks between Russia and the United States were long overdue and that lengthy and careful negotiations would be needed when they did resume. “This is such a complex issue that it requires…
Sept 28 (Reuters) – Three migrants, including one child, died on Monday while attempting to cross the Channel from France to Britain, French authorities said on Monday. France’s maritime police said it received a distress call from an inflatable dinghy carrying 105 people that had…
SYDNEY, Sept 28 (Reuters) – Australia’s biggest property company on Monday abandoned plans to build a data centre metres from people’s homes in the Sydney suburbs after the proposal sparked fierce local opposition. In a letter to the state’s planning department, Goodman Group, one of…
By Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 28 (Reuters) – Nvidia on Monday made available a set of software safety tools for AI agents that it says would have stopped the hack of Hugging Face, the AI coding hub that Nvidia paid $13 billion for months…
