What happened Shares of Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) were up 4.2% today as of 3:30 p.m. EDT. The run higher builds on the 13% return AMD had in July following the company's superb second-quarter 2021 earnings update.
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A massive fire broke out aboard a Canadian Pacific Kansas City Railway freight train as it rolled through downtown London, Ontario, on Sunday. Five train cars carrying discarded railroad ties caught fire and brought the train to a halt in a residential neighborhood. Authorities are investigating the incident as arson.
Italy's Saipem said on Tuesday that a temporary suspension of oil drilling contracts by Saudi Aramco would have a low impact, leaving its 2024 targets within reach. Saudi Arabia's government in January ordered Aramco to halt its oil expansion plan and to target a maximum sustained production capacity of 12 million barrels per day (bpd), one million bpd below a goal announced in 2020. As a result more than 20 jack-ups, or shallow water drilling rigs, were expected to be suspended in the coming months, said Oslo-based firm Esgian which tracks drilling rigs.
Global shares rose on Tuesday, driven by a recovery on Wall Street, where investors focus on earnings reports from the U.S. megacaps, while the yen hit a new 34-year low against the dollar, prompting a warning from Japanese officials. Adding to the optimism was a series of surveys of business activity that showed Germany returned to growth in early April after months of contraction, while activity in the broader euro zone expanded at its fastest clip in nearly a year. Investors are less concerned right now about the threat of a major re-escalation of tension in the Middle East and more focused on earnings.
Philip Morris International on Tuesday surpassed market expectations for first-quarter profit and revenue, helped by robust demand for its heated tobacco product and Zyn nicotine pouches. The Marlboro maker's flagship heated tobacco device IQOS, expected to launch in the United States in the second quarter, has been a driving force behind its effort to make more money from alternatives to traditional cigarettes. The company's first-quarter revenue of $8.79 billion beat market expectations of $8.47 billion, according to LSEG data.
Columbia University's main campus will switch to hybrid learning for the rest of the semester amid protests over Israel's war with Hamas that have roiled colleges across the U.S., officials announced. “Safety is our highest priority as we strive to support our students’ learning and all the required academic operations,” the Ivy League university's provost, Angela V. Olinto, and chief operating officer, Cas Holloway, said in a statement late Monday. The move came after more than 100 pro-Palestinian demonstrators who had camped out on Columbia’s upper Manhattan campus were arrested last week.
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Upward momentum that has propelled copper prices to within a whisker of the psychological $10,000 a metric ton mark is expected to be sustained by the appearance of shortages over the coming months. Copper prices have recently been bolstered by expectations of tight supplies and optimism about demand prospects from energy transition applications such as electric vehicles and new technology such as artificial intelligence and automation. A pick-up in manufacturing activity, particularly in top consumer China where surveys of purchasing managers have started to show expansion has also contributed to enthusiasm for copper which this week hit a two-year peak at $9,988 a ton for a gain of 25% since early October.
The Scottish Covid-19 inquiry is hearing a day of evidence about the health and social care impact of the pandemic.
Spain’s Guardia Civil have carried out what they described as their first-ever rescue using night-vision goggles, after coming to the aid of a hiker in Avila.The Spanish Ministry of Interior said that the Air Service of the Civil Guard used a helicopter in the area of Sierra de Gredos, northwest of Madrid, after a person suffered “an ice impact to the head.”According to the ministry, as sunset approached and light levels decreased, rescue personnel chose to use night-vision goggles.This was “the first rescue carried out by the Guardia Civil in Spain with night-vision goggles,” the ministry said.According to the Spanish government, such goggles were first acquired two years ago by the Guardia Civil’s Air Force. Credit: Guardia Civil via Storyful
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said in remarks published on Tuesday he believed Iraq saw the need to eliminate the Kurdish PKK militia and had the will to do so, adding Ankara wanted Baghdad's support in that battle. Erdogan was speaking after talks in Baghdad and Erbil on Monday, the first visit by a Turkish leader to Iraq since 2011, following years of tensions as Ankara carried out cross-border attacks on PKK militants based in northern Iraq.Ties between the neighbours were entering a new p
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