A Tesla Model Y car is on display inside a new Tesla car showroom in Mumbai, India, in July. Some Elon Musk teasers on X seem to announce a new vehicle for Tuesday. File Photo by Divyakant Solanki/EPA Oct. 6 (UPI) — Tesla CEO Elon Musk made two posts on X that appear to tease…
Soybean farmers, such as the owners of the soybean field pictured in rural Iowa in 2019, may be in line for federal subsidies as a result of President Donald Trump’s tariffs on China. File Photo by Mike Theiler/UPI. | License Photo Oct. 5 (UPI) — Soybean farmers could be the recipients of between $10 billion…
Oct. 2 (UPI) — Tesla CEO Elon Musk‘s net worth reached $500 billion Wednesday, making him the first person to be worth half a trillion dollars. Forbes’ Real-Time Billionaires list ranks him at No. 1, followed by Larry Ellison of Oracle, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta and Jeff Bezos of Amazon. Musk had a net worth…
Sept. 30 (UPI) — Elon Musk-owned xAI plans to launch a challenger to Wikipedia called “Grokipedia” that he said will be a big improvement over the popular open-source website. The site will be powered by the Grok AI chatbot and help xAI to better understand the world and the universe, Mint reported on Tuesday. Musk…
Chinese leader Xi Jinping is renewing a push for the U.S. to change a decades-old phrase describing its stance on Taiwan independence, a concession that would be a major diplomatic win for Beijing. China has asked the Trump administration to officially declare that it “opposes” Taiwan independence, according to a person familiar with the matter,…
Stock indexes slipped on Tuesday as Wall Street took a pause from its relentless rally. The Standard & Poor’s 500 dipped 0.6%. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 88 points, or 0.2%, and the Nasdaq composite sank 0.9%. It’s the first pullback for the indexes after the trio set all-time highs in each of the…
(Reuters) – Investors withdrew massive capital out of U.S. equity funds in the week to Sept. 17 as they turned cautious about the market’s lofty valuations following the recent rally through a policy rate cut by the Federal Reserve and rushed to lock in profits. According to LSEG Lipper data, investors pulled out a net…
By Purvi Agarwal and Sukriti Gupta (Reuters) – U.S. stock index futures gained on Thursday, with those tied to the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq at record highs a day after the U.S. central bank delivered a quarter-point interest rate cut, while Intel climbed after Nvidia decided to build a stake in the company. Intel…
Devin Bruce of Minneapolis placed flowers at a memorial for Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, who were fatally shot in their Brooklyn Park home on June 14. Tuesday, candidate Xp Lee, a Democrat, won the seat. File Photo by Craig Lassig/EPA Sept. 17 (UPI) — Voters in Minnesota chose another Democrat…
1 of 3 | A solo hiker was attacked by a bear Tuesday while hiking in Yellowstone National Park. File Photo by Kimimasa Mayama/EPA Sept. 17 (UPI) — A man suffered serious injuries after being attacked by a bear Tuesday while hiking by himself in Yellowstone National Park. The attack occurred while the man was…