Starboard Value reached a cooperation agreement with Alight, a provider of cloud-based human capital and technology services. Shah Capital launched a proxy campaign at biotech Novavax.
China has been pushing for businesses to leave the door open for customers to use cash, with foreigner visitors saying they're struggling to spend.
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Nvidia said Wednesday its quarterly net profit rocketed by seven times year-on-year on demand for its chips to power artificial intelligence in data centers.The California-based company reported a net profit of $14.9 billion, while its revenue of $26 billion was almost four times what it took in during the same fiscal quarter last year.
Singtel is increasing dividend for the third year
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Power Corporation of Canada (Power Corp) has shut its China investment unit and dismissed all staff, said two people briefed on the matter, becoming the latest Western financial firm to pull back amid the country's economic challenges. Power Sustainable, which is the asset management arm of Power Corp and manages $4.5 billion of assets globally, started laying off all of its 17 local staff in recent weeks as it moved towards shutting down the Shanghai-based unit, said the people. Economic slowdown has seen many of the Western financial firms that scrambled to expand China operations a few years ago take a hit on their earnings and rein in their ambitions for what was a key piece of their global growth strategy.
A stronger-than-expected revenue forecast from Nvidia after the bell on Wednesday lifted shares of the artificial-intelligence chipmaker and fueled gains in other chip and technology stocks. Shares of Nvidia were last up 3.5% while Advanced Micro Devices was up 1.2% and Broadcom was up 0.8% in after-hours trading. "I believe I heard a collective sigh of relief across Wall Street as many investors and analysts were nervous about Nvidia and the entire tech center ahead of this announcement," said Michael Schulman, chief investment officer at Running Point Capital.
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Emboldened by China's latest measures and pledges to fix the weakest parts of its struggling economy, domestic investors are scooping up shares in a cheap stock market, while most foreign investors are hopeful but taking it slow. Last week's sweeping measures to support the property sector, which authorities dubbed as historic, were the latest in a series of steps China has taken since February in a bid to boost consumption, funnel state money into priority sectors and underpin the stock market. "To some extent, I think what's been announced isn't yet of a scale that is going to start putting a meaningful kind of tens of percentage points onto GDP," said Sunil Krishnan, head of multi-asset funds at Aviva Investors in London.
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XPeng stock rose Tuesday after the Chinese electric-vehicle maker reported better-than-expected first-quarter numbers. A year ago, XPeng reported a per-share loss of 38 cents on sales of $573 million. Quarterly gross profit margins were about 13%, up about 11 percentage points year over year and about two percentage points better than analysts’ forecasts.
(Reuters) -Schneider Electric said on Wednesday that its talks with U.S. engineering software maker Bentley Systems regarding a potential "strategic transaction" have ended. "Those discussions are now mutually terminated and no transaction was agreed upon," Schneider said in a statement. Bentley's shares fell more than 5% on the news, giving the company a market value of $16 billion.
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has bumped up his retirement plans, the longtime head of America’s largest bank said Monday.
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