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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung Electronics’ labor union said Wednesday it’ll hold off on launching a planned strike and put a tentative wage deal with management to a vote, alleviating immediate concerns about the operation of the world’s largest memory chip maker. The announcement was made after a last-minute government-mediated negotiation with management over…

With a global memory shortage already under way, workers at the world’s biggest manufacturer were threatening to strike. With a global memory shortage already under way, workers at the world’s biggest manufacturer were threatening to strike. Updated May 20, 2026, 4:35 PM UTC Jess Weatherbed is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and…

Around 10% of local staff to be cut, while hundreds shift into AI units in sweeping reorganization. 12:35, 20.05.26 The global layoffs at Meta have reached Israel, with about 10% of the company’s local workforce, just over 100 employees, expected to be cut, primarily from its development center. In parallel, roughly 200 employees are expected…

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(Bloomberg) — For much of the year, chip stocks have been powering the market higher. Now, Nvidia Corp.’s earnings have a chance to confirm that the rally has more room to run — or add another brick to investors’ wall of worry. Most Read from Bloomberg The leader in artificial intelligence semiconductors reports its results…

(Bloomberg) — The selloff in longer-maturity government bonds has pushed up yields to levels last seen during the global financial crisis, and market participants are warning the move has room to run. Most Read from Bloomberg A surge in global inflation expectations has brought the average yield on sovereign debt due in a decade or…

By Caroline Valetkevitch and Alun John NEW YORK/LONDON, May 20 (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury yields and oil prices fell on Wednesday as hopes increased that the U.S. is nearing a deal with Iran to end the war in the Middle ‌East, while major stock indexes rose with chipmaker shares ahead of Nvidia‘s quarterly results. Investors…

In this article STLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa speaks during an event in Turin, Italy, Nov. 25, 2025. Daniele Mascolo | Reuters DETROIT — Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa has said leading the transatlantic automaker is a dream come true, but the company’s stock has been anything but that for…

Refresh Get notified of updates 2026-05-20T19:34:01.713Z SpaceX completes Starship V3 wet dress rehearsal SpaceX stacked Starship V3 ahead of Flight 12 on May 19, 2026. (Image credit: SpaceX) The public beach next to SpaceX’s Starbase launch and test facility was closed today (May 20), between about 6:30 a.m. EDT (1030 GMT) and 2 p.m. EDT…

Transportation The super sedan has axial motors, a high-performance battery, and (regrettably) fake engine sounds. The super sedan has axial motors, a high-performance battery, and (regrettably) fake engine sounds. May 20, 2026, 3:30 AM UTC Andrew J. Hawkins is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work…

Solstock/Getty Images For most of the time that the United States has been a country, 177 of its now 250 years, the Milwaukee-based brewery Schlitz has been producing beer. That’s a solid 70% of the tenure of this country, and through all of it, at least in the right areas, a cold glass of Schlitz…

In this article TGT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Target on Wednesday posted earnings and revenue that beat Wall Street expectations, and reported that net sales grew more than 6% year over year as the retailer tries to win back customers amid slumping sales.  Target’s same-store sales jumped 5.6%, its first positive same-store sales…

A driver was arrested Monday night after police said he intentionally drove a Tesla Cybertruck into Grapevine Lake to test the vehicle’s “Wade Mode” feature before the truck became disabled and started taking on water. According to a news release from the Grapevine Police Department, officers were dispatched shortly before 8 p.m. to Katie’s Woods…

Nvidia (NVDA +1.22%) reports its fiscal first-quarter results after the market closes Wednesday (today), and the release will give investors the clearest read yet on whether the artificial intelligence (AI) build-out that has consumed the AI chipmaker’s order book is still gaining steam. The stock has quietly climbed into the report. Shares recently touched an…

Seven Chinese executives and four of the world’s largest shipping container manufacturing companies were indicted for conspiring to restrict the output of — and fix the prices of — nearly all of the world’s standard unrefrigerated shipping containers for over four years, spanning as early as November 2019 to at least January 2024, in violation…

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. stock market gave back more of its record-setting rally Tuesday after bond markets rattled by high inflation cranked up the pressure. The S&P 500 fell 0.7% for its third straight loss since setting its latest all-time high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 322 points, or 0.6%, and the…

Volvo’s new “game-changing” midsize electric SUV, the 2027 EX60, is now on sale, but is it worth it to lease? 2027 Volvo EX60 lease offers Volvo said it’s lowering the threshold for a premium electric SUV after opening orders for the all-new EX60 on Monday. The 2027 Volvo EX60 starts at $58,400, which is nearly…

Supplemental BLA seeks to expand the ANKTIVA label to include patients with BCG-unresponsive NMIBC with papillary disease FDA noted in its filing communication that the supplemental BLA accepted for review was based on the additional scientific data ImmunityBio provided at the Agency’s request, detailing the overlapping features of papillary and CIS disease to determine adequate…

Abstract The cycle of scientific discovery is frequently bottlenecked by the slow, manual creation of software to support computational experiments1. To address this, we present Empirical Research Assistance (ERA), an AI system that creates expert-level scientific software whose goal is to maximize a quality metric. The system uses a Large Language Model (LLM) and Tree…

“It’s an honor to consistently rank as a top place to live in America,” Fishers Mayor Scott Fadness said in a news release. INDIANAPOLIS — Two Hamilton County cities have once again been named among the best in the nation to live. U.S. News & World Report on Tuesday, May 19 released its annual list…

Security researcher Brian Krebs brings us the news that America’s Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Agency (CISA) has had a large store of plaintext passwords, SSH private keys, tokens, and “other sensitive CISA assets” exposed in a public GitHub repo since at least November 2025. The now-offline public repo—named, somewhat aspirationally, “Private-CISA”—was brought to Krebs’ attention by…

NEW YORK (AP) — Call him the Trader in Chief. Recent presidents have stayed away from trading stocks in companies whose fortunes they could lift or scuttle with the stroke of a pen, but Donald Trump smashed that precedent in the first quarter of this year with more than 3,600 buy and sell orders, many…

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Policy.  The United States is a global leader in financial innovation, driven in part by the rapid growth of financial technology (fintech) firms.  These firms provide innovative services and…

A trader work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on May 20, 2026 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images Stocks jumped on Wednesday as oil prices and U.S. Treasury yields slid amid growing optimism that the conflict in the Middle East could soon be resolved….

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It was another rough day for the bond market and, thus, for interest rates. Investors aggressively sold bonds in the first 2 hours of trading, taking 10yr Treasury yields to the highest level in more than a year. Mortgage-specific bonds have been doing better versus Treasuries in recent months thanks to increased purchase demand from…

President Donald Trump will sign a pair of executive orders Tuesday aimed at insulating the US’ financial system from undocumented immigrants and expanding fintech firms’ access to the Federal Reserve’s payment rails, a White House official told Semafor. The first executive order is a step back from initial proposals, which were expected as recently as…

U.S. Vice President JD Vance speaks during a press conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on May 19, 2026 in Washington, DC. Heather Diehl | Getty Images Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday defended President Donald Trump against a question about the heavy stock trading on display in the president’s…

The jury’s speedy decision to reject Elon Musk’s lawsuit against the other founders of OpenAI and Microsoft confirmed what we saw in the courtroom: Musk’s case was a weak one, in part because he waited so long to file it. Watching the closing arguments last week, OpenAI’s attorneys detailed point by point how the law…

Abstract Scientific discovery is driven by scientists generating novel hypotheses for complex problems that undergo rigorous experimental validation. To augment this process, we introduce Co-Scientist, a multi-agent AI system built on Gemini for structured scientific thinking and hypothesis generation. Co-Scientist aims to help scientists discover new original knowledge. Conditioned on their research objectives and prior…

NEW YORK CITY — Lululemon has publicly rejected founder Chip Wilson’s ideas to fix the struggling athleisure brand, which includes an overhaul of its board, with some strongly worded criticisms of its former leader. Wilson, who is also the company’s second-largest shareholder, launched his latest salvo last December in his campaign against the company’s management….