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Dozens of State Department employees have signed internal memos to Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken expressing serious disagreement with the Biden administration’s approach to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, according to U.S. officials, part of a surging tide of internal disagreement within the Biden administration over the Middle East crisis.At least three internal cables, sent via a dissent channel established during the Vietnam War, have urged President Biden to call for a cease-fire in Gaza, according to an official, who spoke anonymously to discuss sensitive diplomatic cables that have not been released to the public.Two were sent in the…
Power outages at Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital are forcing medical staff to remove premature babies from life-saving incubators.Read the original article on Business Insider
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Pain is on the wane in the UK commercial real estate industry. That is the message of British Land. The UK property group is conservatively run. But boss Simon Carter has gone so far as to hint that the cycle has reached an inflection point.Concrete evidence came in the form of British Land’s decision to find a lucrative new tenant for a building near Regent’s Park in London that Meta never occupied. The alternative was to accept a surer substitute referred by…
© Reuters Investing.com — The Federal Reserve’s higher for longer rate regime will be followed up by a series of rate cuts starting in June next year that will go “well beyond” market expectations, Morgan Stanley says, expecting the Fed to achieve a soft landing as it embarks on the last mile to curbing inflation to target. Rate cut forecasts gather steam The Fed is expected to deliver four 25 basis point cuts next year, lowering rates from 5.375% to 4.375% in 2024, Morgan Stanley forecasts, followed by eight cuts in 2025, pushing its benchmark rate to 2.375% by the end of 2025. That is above current market…
© Reuters Bernstein on AMD, Intel: The PC market continues to improve According to a report by Bernstein on the U.S. semiconductors, particularly focusing on Intel (NASDAQ:) and AMD (NASDAQ:), the PC market continues to improve following several quarters of channel inventory correction consequent of 2 years of pandemic-fueled demand pull-forward. This normalization is evident from the 8% year-over-year decline in PC shipments in Q3, marking an improvement from Q2 and aligning closely with pre-pandemic levels. The alignment of CPU shipments with overall PC units in Q3 highlights a roughly normalized CPU channel. According to Bernstein, AMD emerges as a…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A warning sign for a natural gas pipeline is seen as natural gas flares at an oil pump site outside of Williston, North Dakota March 11, 2013. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo (Reuters) – The U.S. needs more pipeline capacity to maintain reliable gas supply during extreme cold weather, a trade group representing pipeline companies said on Monday in support of regulators who last week urged sought new rules to prevent a repetition of last winter’s power outages. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the North American Electric Reliability Corp (NERC) urged lawmakers to fill a regulatory…
andresr/E+ via Getty Images The Beauty Health Company (NASDAQ:SKIN) is down ~38% in after-hourS trading Monday after lowering its fiscal 2023 net sales guidance due to lower-than-expected U.S. revenue and restructuring charges for device upgrades. In addition, the skin care company said it was suspending its long-term 2025 financial outlook. Also, CEO Andrew Stanleick will be departing the company on Nov 19. Beauty Health (SKIN) now sees net sales guidance of $385M to $400M. Consensus is $461.3M. The company noted that part of the reason for the 2023 guidance change is $63.1M in restructuring charges related to device upgrades of…
President Biden and Democrat strategist David Axelrod have shown increasing tension towards each other after Axelrod questioned whether it was the best decision for Biden to run again in 2024. But the friction, at least on the Biden family side, appears to date back years.Earlier this month, Axelrod suggested it may be “wise” for Biden to drop out of the 2024 race following a poll that showed him losing to former President Trump by up to 10 points in five battleground states he won in 2020.”Only [Joe Biden] can make this decision,” the former Obama adviser wrote on X on November…
Topline Pfizer shares tumbled again Monday, continuing the pharmaceutical giant’s struggles tied to declining demand for its Covid-19 products and essentially wiping out the entirety of the firm’s peak pandemic gains. Pfizer’s Covid-related revenues are down considerably this year, hurting its stock performance. Future Publishing via Getty Images Key Facts Pfizer stock slipped 1.6% to $28.96, closing at its lowest share price since March 26, 2020. Excluding March 2020, when the stock market briefly crashed amid stay-at-home orders, Pfizer is now at its lowest share price since December 2016. Pfizer shares are down more than 50% since their December 2021…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The Labour party will conduct a sweeping review of the UK’s pension system to find ways of unlocking billions of pounds worth of retirement fund capital for the country’s growth if it wins the next general election, shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has said.Speaking a week before the Autumn Statement, Reeves unveiled a series of measures that went further than proposals set out so far by chancellor Jeremy Hunt to boost British long-term pension investment in UK businesses.The UK pension market is among…