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Exclusive-Rare earth shortages worsen in US aerospace, chips despite trade truce, sources say
By Allison Lampert, Laurie Chen, Lewis Jackson and Michael Martina MONTREAL/BEIJING/WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Suppliers to U.S. aerospace and semiconductor firms face worsening rare earth shortag...
Feb 25, 2026
Exclusive-Toyota plans around $19 billion share sale by financial institutions, sources say
By Miho Uranaka and Maki Shiraki TOKYO, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Toyota plans a large-scale unwinding of strategic shareholdings that would involve banks and insurance firms selling around $19 billion of it...
Feb 25, 2026
Hawkish BOJ board member calls for focus on inflation overshoot risk
By Leika Kihara KYOTO, Japan, Feb 26 (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan must focus on the risk of an inflation overshoot in guiding monetary policy, hawkish board member Hajime Takata said on Thursday, cal...
Feb 25, 2026
OpenAI hires ex-Apple models head from Meta, The Information reports
Feb 25 (Reuters) - OpenAI has hired Ruoming Pang, a high-profile AI researcher at Meta, who had joined the company from Apple about seven months ago, The Information reported on Wednesday, citing an O...
Feb 25, 2026
Amazon's $50 billion OpenAI investment may depend on IPO or AGI, The Information reports
Feb 25 (Reuters) - Amazon's plan to invest up to $50 billion in OpenAI could depend on whether the AI developer goes public or achieves an artificial general intelligence (AGI) milestone, The Informat...
Feb 25, 2026
Oil edges up as US-Iran tensions keep supply risks in focus
By Yuka Obayashi and Emily Chow TOKYO, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Oil prices inched up on Thursday as investors gauged whether U.S.-Iran talks could avert a military conflict that risks supply disruptions, th...
Feb 25, 2026
Asia shares bounce but Nvidia's results fail to impress
By Rae Wee SINGAPORE, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Asian stocks made slight gains on Thursday thanks to upbeat earnings from Nvidia, though concerns over AI-driven disruption and rising costs remained, while th...
Feb 25, 2026
Qantas CEO says demand weakness on US routes viewed as short-term issue
Feb 26 (Reuters) - Qantas Airways CEO Vanessa Hudson said on Thursday that demand weakness on the Australian carrier's U.S. routes was viewed as a short-term issue. She told analysts on an earnings ca...
Feb 25, 2026
Congress to weigh extending space station life, NASA moon base
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON, Feb 25 (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate committee next week will consider extending the planned life of the International Space Station by two years to give companies more time t...
Feb 25, 2026
S.Korea central bank holds rates, adopts dot-plot path signalling extended pause
By Cynthia Kim and Jihoon Lee SEOUL, Feb 26 (Reuters) - South Korea's central bank stood pat on interest rates on Thursday and signalled policy would stay unchanged for the next six months as a chip b...
Feb 25, 2026
