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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks during a news conference at the Secretariat of Security and Civilian Protection in Mexico City, Mexico March 9, 2023. REUTERS/Henry Romero/File Photo MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico will in 15 days launch a public tender for the construction of 10 industrial parks at a planned business corridor on an isthmus in the south of the country, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday. Auto makers, tech companies and semiconductor producers could be among investors in the parks, Economy Minister Raquel Buenrostro said this month, noting officials were pitching…
The Nasdaq is the world’s largest electronic stock exchange and second-largest stock exchange globally in terms of market capitalization behind the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). It was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in New York City. The Nasdaq stock exchange lists over 3,500 companies, including many of the world’s leading technology companies. The Nasdaq Composite Index, which is the largest index on the Nasdaq, measures all domestic and international common type stocks. The market-capitalization-weighted index is the second-largest stock market index in the world, after the S&P 500. In terms of performance, Nasdaq stocks have often outperformed the…
5/5 © Reuters. Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro shakes hands with Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as they meet at Planalto Palace on the day of a summit with presidents of South America to discuss the re-launching of the regional cooperation bloc UNASUR 2/5 BRASILIA (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro met on Monday with Brazilian leftist leader Luis Inacio Lula de Silva during his first visit to Brazil since 2015, taking advantage of warmer relations ahead of a regional summit. Brazil’s former hard-right President Jair Bolsonaro had banned Maduro from entering Brazil when he took office in 2019,…
Source: PixabayIn a deal by President Joe Biden and Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to raise the US debt ceiling, there is one part notably absent — a tax on cryptocurrency mining.Over the weekend, Biden and McCarthy closed in on a deal to raise the debt ceiling with a plan to get Congress on board this week, according to CNN. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned McCarthy on Friday that if Congress had not raised or suspended the debt limit by June 5, Treasury would have “insufficient resources to satisfy the government’s obligations.”Republican Rep. Warren Davidson shared the 99-page bill, which would…
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., is a wanted man in Russia for comments he made while visiting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday. Russia’s Interior Ministry put out a warrant for Graham’s arrest on Monday in response to an edited video released by Zelenskyy’s office in which Graham praised U.S. support for Ukraine’s defense and noted that Russians are dying as Ukraine fights for its freedom. In the video, Graham noted that “the Russians are dying” and described the U.S. military assistance to the country as “the best money we’ve ever spent.” While Graham appeared to have made the remarks in different parts of…
Nasdaq 100 has rallied over 30% this year as artificial intelligence continues to attract investors into the big cap tech stocks. Professor Siegel’s view on AI stocks More importantly, the AI-driven rally is not over just yet, as per Jeremy Siegel – Professor of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. On CNBC’s “Street Sigs Asia”, he said: It’s not a bubble yet. First, there was excitement about artificial intelligence and Nvidia Corporation ratified that excitement with blowout earnings. That’s a double push. The semiconductor behemoth recently cited the AI boom and issued revenue guidance for its…
Accenture to acquire Brazilian sustainability consultancy Green Domus
WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 22: U.S. President Joe Biden meets with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) in … [+] the Oval Office of the White House on May 22, 2023 in Washington, DC. Biden and McCarthy were meeting to discuss raising the debt limit in an effort to avoid a default by the federal government. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)Getty Images After a few days of speculation about the debt ceiling agreement between President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, we finally have the details. The text of the bill—just 99 pages long—was released on Sunday and is already…
529 college savings plan getty While it’s hard to say what will happen to the costs of higher education over the next decade, it seems pretty clear many families are on their own when it comes to financing college for their children. And unfortunately, this reality applies to everyone — not just people who don’t qualify for any financial aid. The fact is, even if you do qualify for financial aid, it’s usually not enough to cover the costs of higher education and everything else you have to pay for to earn a degree. The numbers don’t lie. According to…
Nvidia’s chief executive hailed a new era of computing in which “everyone is a programmer”, as the world’s most valuable semiconductor group unveiled a new supercomputer platform to stay at the forefront of the artificial intelligence revolution.Jensen Huang warned in a speech in Taiwan that the traditional tech industry would not keep pace with AI’s advancements, adding that the technology had dramatically lowered the barrier to entry to computer coding.“We have reached the tipping point of a new computing era,” Huang said on Monday, arguing that AI now enabled individuals to create programmes simply by plugging in commands.“Everyone is a…