Author: Daniel snow

Europe is being urged to capitalize on the volatility of the Trump administration, as shifts in capital and private market flows suggest U.S. exceptionalism is waning and losing out to a resurgent Europe.The numbers tell part of the story, with Europe’s Stoxx 600 up over 8% compared to a 5% jump for the S&P 500 since Nov. 1, 2024, just days ahead of the U.S. election.Bank of America said in a report dated June 5 that U.S. equities had seen outflows of $7.5 billion over the previous three weeks, while European stocks benefited from inflows of $2.6 billion over the same period. Earlier this…

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BP logo is seen at a gas station in this illustration photo taken in Poland on March 15, 2025.Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesUAE oil giant ADNOC has joined the fray of firms said to be circling some of BP’s highly prized assets, as takeover speculation for the embattled energy major kicks into overdrive.Abu Dhabi National Oil Company is thought to be weighing up a move for some of the London-listed firm’s assets, should the oil major break up or seek to divest more units, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter.ADNOC is reportedly most interested in…

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Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., left, and Emmanuel Macron, France’s president at the 2025 VivaTech conference in Paris, France, on Wednesday, June 11, 2025. Nathan Laine | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesFrench President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday made a pitch for his country to manufacture the most advanced chips in the world, in a bid to position itself as a critical tech hub in Europe.The comments come as European tech companies and countries are reassessing their reliance on foreign technology firms for critical technology and infrastructure.Chipmaking in particular arose as a topic after Nvidia CEO Jensen…

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The Insta360 One R displayed in a container of water at the Insta360 booth during CES 2020 at the Las Vegas Convention Center on Jan. 8, 2020.David Becker | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesBEIJING — Chinese companies are so intent on global expansion that even the biggest stock offering to date on Shanghai’s tech-heavy STAR board counts the U.S. as one of its biggest markets, on par with China.Shenzhen-based camera company Insta360, a rival to GoPro, raised 1.938 billion yuan ($270 million) in a Shanghai listing Wednesday under the name Arashi Vision. Shares soared by 274%, giving the company…

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“Compared to Nvidia’s export-restricted chips, the performance gap between Huawei and the H20 is less than a full generation,” said Dylan Patel, founder, CEO and chief analyst of SemiAnalysis. Sinology | Moment | Getty ImagesWith the U.S. restricting China from buying advanced semiconductors used in artificial intelligence development, Beijing is placing hopes on domestic alternatives such as Huawei. The task has been made more challenging by the fact that U.S. curbs not only inhibit China’s access to the world’s most advanced chips, but also restrict availing technology vital for creating an AI chip ecosystem. Those constraints span the entire semiconductor value chain, ranging from…

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Ali Ghodsi, co-founder and CEO of Databricks, speaks at the company’s Data and AI Summit in San Francisco on June 11, 2025.Jordan Novet | CNBCDatabricks, a data analytics software vendor, said on Wednesday that it expects to generate $3.7 billion in annualized revenue by July, with year-over-year growth of 50%.CFO Dave Conte delivered the numbers at a briefing for investors and analysts tied to the company’s Data and AI Summit in San Francisco on Wednesday. Growth in the October quarter was 60%, Databricks said in late 2024.Databricks is one of the most highly valued tech startups, announcing in December that…

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