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Macquarie's $3.5 billion profit beats forecast on commodity and trading boost
By Scott Murdoch May 8 (Reuters) - Top Australian investment bank Macquarie Group reported an A$4.85 billion ($3.50 billion) full-year net profit on Friday, its second-largest ever, as the Middle East...
May 07, 2026
Japan service sector growth slows to 11-month low in April, PMI shows
TOKYO, May 8 (Reuters) - Japan's service activity grew at its slowest pace in 11 months in April, as uncertainty and rising costs from the war in the Middle East weighed on sentiment, a private-sector...
May 07, 2026
Australia regulator calls for urgent cybersecurity action to counter Mythos
By Scott Murdoch SYDNEY, May 8 (Reuters) - Australia's corporate regulator has urged the country's financial sector to take urgent action on tackling potential cyber risks from frontier AI systems suc...
May 07, 2026
Japan real wages climb for third month in March, backing case for BOJ rate hike
TOKYO, May 8 (Reuters) - Japan's real wages rose 1% in March from a year earlier, government data showed on Friday, in a third straight month of gains that bolster the case for the Bank of Japan to ra...
May 07, 2026
Nvidia funds construction of Corning plants, in addition to equity investment
By Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO, May 7 (Reuters) - Nvidia has paid several billion dollars to help fund new factories for glassmaker Corning in addition to taking an equity stake of up to $3.2 billion...
May 07, 2026
Oil higher on Mideast hostilities; AI drives Asian stocks to sparkling weekly gains
By Tom Westbrook SINGAPORE, May 8 (Reuters) - Oil prices were higher on Friday and stocks a little bit lower as the U.S. and Iran exchanged fire in the Middle East, though many markets in Asia were st...
May 07, 2026
Wynn Resorts logs quarterly profit above estimates on Macau gains
May 7 (Reuters) - Casino operator Wynn Resorts beat Wall Street estimates for first-quarter profit on Thursday, driven by stronger business in Macau. Wynn said adjusted profit from its properties in M...
May 07, 2026
Oil prices jump on renewed US-Iran hostilities
By Colleen Howe BEIJING, May 8 (Reuters) - Oil prices were up more than 1% on Friday after renewed fighting broke out between the U.S. and Iran, threatening a shaky ceasefire and dashing hopes for pro...
May 07, 2026
Shale producer Devon Energy approves $8 billion share buyback plan
May 7 (Reuters) - U.S. oil and gas producer Devon Energy said on Thursday its board had approved a $8 billion share repurchase program, a week after activist investor Kimmeridge called for higher shar...
May 07, 2026
Exclusive-SK Hynix flooded with unprecedented offers from big tech firms to secure chip supplies
By Heekyong Yang, Fanny Potkin and Hyunjoo Jin SEOUL/SINGAPORE, May 8 (Reuters) - SK Hynix is being aggressively courted by big global tech firms with offers to invest in its new production lines and ...
May 07, 2026
