Investors defrauded by Melissa Caddick before her disappearance and death will recoup a portion of their $23m in losses after settling a class action lawsuit with her auditors. Victims have already been repaid $7.25m after liquidators of the dead fraudster sold off her assets in 2023 and 2024. The 32 investors also launched a class…
A man pushes his shopping cart filled with food shopping and walks in front of an aisle of canned vegetables with “Down price” labels in an Auchan supermarket in Guilherand Granges, France, March 8, 2025. Nicolas Guyonnet | Afp | Getty Images Annual Euro zone inflation dipped as expected to 2.2% in March, according to…
An Israeli air strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs has killed at least three people, Lebanon’s health ministry says, putting further pressure on a fragile ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah. The attack was the second on the area known as the Dahieh, where Hezbollah has a strong presence, in recent days, despite…
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on March 28, 2025, in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Monday was the last trading day of the quarter. U.S. stocks took a heavy beating during the period: Both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite broke their five-quarter winning streaks and…
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Israeli forces kill Palestinian journalist and his entire family in airstrike on house in Khan Younis – reports We are seeing reports that Mohammed Saleh al-Bardawil, a Palestinian journalist, and his wife and three children were killed at dawn on Tuesday…
Market uncertainty should “peak” around the Wednesday tariff deadline, according to Evercore ISI. In a note this week, Julian Emanuel wrote investors should resist tariff angst and accumulate stocks. “All you need is a little less uncertainty,” the firm’s senior managing director said Monday on CNBC’s “Fast Money.” Emanuel compares the market pessimism to the…
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, at Station F, is seen through glass, during an event on the sidelines of the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris, France, Feb. 11, 2025. Aurelien Morissard | Via Reuters OpenAI’s massive private funding round could be slashed by as much as $10 billion if the company doesn’t restructure into…
A colossal fire has erupted in a Malaysian suburb outside Kuala Lumpur due to a burst gas pipeline, prompting evacuations of nearby homes. The inferno near a gas station in Putra Heights in central Selangor state on Tuesday was visible for kilometres. National oil company Petronas said the fire broke out at one of its…
Rajat Bhageria is the CEO of Chef Robotics, a San Francisco startup that has raised $20.6 million in a Series A round to continue building artificially-intelligent, food-assembly robots. Courtesy of Chef Robotics As the food service industry continues to struggle with labor shortages, a Silicon Valley startup has put together artificially-intelligent robots that are ready…
In this photo illustration, Claude AI logo is seen on a smartphone and Anthropic logo on a pc screen. (Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Anthropic on Monday announced updates to the “responsible scaling” policy for its artificial intelligence technology, including defining which of its…
