(Reuters) -Advance Auto Parts said on Thursday it will close about 500 stores by mid-2025 and cut some jobs as demand for vehicle parts takes a hit from fewer consumers opting to repair their cars, sending its shares up 4.5% in afternoon trading. The automotive industry has had a difficult second half of the year,…
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Nearly 90 Democratic lawmakers urged U.S. President Joe Biden to sanction members of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government over anti-Palestinian violence in the West Bank, according to a letter released on Thursday. Urging Biden to send a message to U.S. partners before he leaves office, the members of…
(Reuters) – World’s third-largest contract chipmaker, GlobalFoundries , forecast fourth-quarter revenue above Wall Street estimates on Tuesday, driven by recovering semiconductor demand from smartphone makers, sending shares up nearly 10% in premarket trading. The New York-based company has seen a resurgence in demand from its smart mobile devices segment, offsetting weakness in the Home and…
(Reuters) – Physical Intelligence, a startup that is developing foundational software for robots, said on Monday it has raised $400 million in early-stage funding from Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, OpenAI, venture capital firms Thrive Capital and Lux Capital. The new funds were raised at a $2 billion valuation, PitchBook data showed. Physical Intelligence is seeking to…
By Ricardo Brito BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian authorities are preparing to remove illegal gold miners from an Indigenous reservation in the Amazon rainforest that has been criss-crossed with informal airstrips and contaminated with mercury, an official said. The Munduruku territory covers nearly 24,000 square km (9,000 square miles), about the size of the U.S. state…
