Governing body ‘regrets’ website error that caused glitch Ticketing process being investigated by attorneys general Fifa has canceled World Cup tickets issued to about 60 fans who mistakenly got them for free because of a website error, and soccer’s governing body is now asking for them to be paid in full. The tickets were “allocated at no charge [0 USD] due to a prior payment issue during the che...
Governing body ‘regrets’ website error that caused glitch Ticketing process being investigated by attorneys general Fifa has canceled World Cup tickets issued to about 60 fans who mistakenly got them for free because of a website error, and soccer’s governing body is now asking for them to be paid in full. The tickets were “allocated at no charge [0 USD] due to a prior payment issue during the checkout process,” Fifa said in a statement Thursday. Continue reading...
SBM Offshore已与其长期业务合作伙伴日本邮船签署股东协议，拟出售与Chalchi浮式储卸装置租赁及运营相关的特殊目的公司45%的所有权权益。 这家海上能源服务供应商表示，其将继续持有55%的股权，保持大股东地位。该拟议交易尚需满足多项先决条件并获得相关批准。 FSO Chalchi目前正在建造中，将通过其子公司Woodside Petróleo Opera ciones de Méxic...
SBM Offshore已与其长期业务合作伙伴日本邮船签署股东协议，拟出售与Chalchi浮式储卸装置租赁及运营相关的特殊目的公司45%的所有权权益。 这家海上能源服务供应商表示，其将继续持有55%的股权，保持大股东地位。该拟议交易尚需满足多项先决条件并获得相关批准。 FSO Chalchi目前正在建造中，将通过其子公司Woodside Petróleo Opera ciones de México与伍德赛德能源公司签订为期20年的租赁和运营合同。 该FSO装置采用苏伊士型船体，将配备SBM Offshore设计的可断开式转塔系泊系统。该船将系泊于约2500米水深的海域，原油存储能力约为95万桶。 FSO Chalchi将服务于Trion油田，该油田位于墨西哥近海约180公里处、美墨海上边界以南30公里。 Trion项目由一家合资企业开发，其中伍德赛德持有60%的权益并担任运营商，墨西哥国家石油公司持有剩余40%的权益。 责任编辑：张俊 SF065
The US government should consider the possibility that artificial intelligence becomes so advanced that it can improve itself without human intervention, and agencies should factor that risk into any voluntary federal testing of cutting-edge models, a key Republican senator said in a letter to the Trump administration. While expressing his broad support for an AI cybersecurity order issued by Pres...
The US government should consider the possibility that artificial intelligence becomes so advanced that it can improve itself without human intervention, and agencies should factor that risk into any voluntary federal testing of cutting-edge models, a key Republican senator said in a letter to the Trump administration. While expressing his broad support for an AI cybersecurity order issued by President Donald Trump earlier this week, Senator Jim Banks urged the administration to ensure government oversight keeps pace as the technology progresses. Banks said the order offered a blueprint for addressing other national security risks posed by AI beyond cyber. “There may be important capability thresholds — such as AI systems that can automate large amounts of AI research and development in short periods of time — that pose new kinds of risks,” Banks wrote in a letter dated Thursday to officials including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent , National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth . “Industry experts have likewise raised serious concerns about the difficulty of keeping such systems under human control.” Read More: Anthropic Says World Needs System to Decide on AI Work Pause The senator’s letter emerged as Anthropic PBC cautioned that AI is advancing so fast that it may soon be capable of improving itself and building successor systems on its own. In a blog post Thursday, the company called for the creation of a system where governments and top AI labs could jointly decide when it’s time to collectively slow down work on the technology. Banks said it “may soon be important” for the government to have more visibility into internal AI systems that aren’t going to be released to the public, especially if they’re helping AI improve itself. OpenAI warned of the phenomenon — dubbed recursive self improvement — in a policy document released Wednesday as its Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman was meeting with US lawmakers and unnamed White House ...
A growing divide between fans and team, coupled with economic hardship and war, has dampened the mood Abbas Kiarostami, the late Iranian director, made a film called Life, and Nothing More …, set during the 1990 World Cup in Italy. The film tells the story of a father and son who, during the tournament, travel to an earthquake-stricken village that had served as the location for Kiarostami’s earli...
A growing divide between fans and team, coupled with economic hardship and war, has dampened the mood Abbas Kiarostami, the late Iranian director, made a film called Life, and Nothing More …, set during the 1990 World Cup in Italy. The film tells the story of a father and son who, during the tournament, travel to an earthquake-stricken village that had served as the location for Kiarostami’s earlier films. The son, eager to watch Argentina play Brazil, finds a villager who, despite having lost several family members, is busy adjusting a television antenna to watch the game between the two South American football giants. Kiarostami later wrote about this scene: “This sequence is directly drawn from a similar experience during my trip to the earthquake‑stricken region in the early days after the disaster. [The man] had his left arm in a cast, was shirtless, and with his right hand was striking one stone against another at the base of the antenna to secure it. I saw that after that event, what mattered there was life – and then football.” Continue reading...
Davidson Kempner's Suzanne Gibbons, Glendon Capital's Holly Kim, Sculptor Capital's Brett Klein and Matthew Rahmani of Perella Weinberg speak with Bloomberg News' Irene Garcia Perez on how credit markets are navigating heightened volatility, higher-for-longer interest rates and the credit market's ``cockroach'' problem at Bloomberg's Global Credit Forum in New York on June 3. (Source: Bloomberg)
Davidson Kempner's Suzanne Gibbons, Glendon Capital's Holly Kim, Sculptor Capital's Brett Klein and Matthew Rahmani of Perella Weinberg speak with Bloomberg News' Irene Garcia Perez on how credit markets are navigating heightened volatility, higher-for-longer interest rates and the credit market's ``cockroach'' problem at Bloomberg's Global Credit Forum in New York on June 3. (Source: Bloomberg)
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac common shares rose sharply at the open on Friday after President Donald Trump said the two mortgage finance giants were probably worth $1 trillion , though they subsequently erased much of those gains as skepticism mounted. The president mentioned Fannie and Freddie at the White House on Thursday afternoon during remarks ostensibly centered around the coal industry . Ear...
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac common shares rose sharply at the open on Friday after President Donald Trump said the two mortgage finance giants were probably worth $1 trillion , though they subsequently erased much of those gains as skepticism mounted. The president mentioned Fannie and Freddie at the White House on Thursday afternoon during remarks ostensibly centered around the coal industry . Earlier this week, the shares slid after Trump appointed Bill Pulte , the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, as his acting director of National Intelligence. The appointment cast doubt on long-standing plans to start selling the government’s stake in the two companies. “We’re comfortable with our most recently published numbers on the valuation,” KBW analyst Bose George said on Friday. He cited a “current combined fair value in the $200 billion to $250 billion range.” Fannie rose as much as 10.4% on Friday, while Freddie advanced as much as 9.7%. Both have tumbled around 30% this year because of mounting unease about the pace at which the Trump administration has been moving. There is plenty of hesitancy about the likelihood of government moves to free the companies, which have been under Washington’s control since the financial crisis set off by the US housing market crash. Pulte’s DNI appointment “reinforces our view that meaningful ‘IPO’ action, i.e. a Treasury sale of converted warrant shares in Fannie and Freddie, is unlikely before the 2026 midterm elections,” Wedbush’s Michael Piccolo wrote in a note in recent days. He questioned whether Pulte would have the “bandwidth required to advance the complex regulatory and capital restructuring work necessary for a recap and release,” and added that the move might be part of a future FHFA leadership change. Optimism about upcoming share sales had fueled notable 2025 gains for the two companies. In August, shares surged following reports that the White House had plans for a public offering that could value the enterpris...
IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) is battling D-Wave (NYSE: QBTS) and Rigetti (NASDAQ: RGTI) in one of the strangest quantum stock setups on the market. The stocks look damaged, but the businesses tell a more complicated story, with revenue growth, government contracts, acquisition potential, and major technology risk all colliding at once. Continue reading
IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) is battling D-Wave (NYSE: QBTS) and Rigetti (NASDAQ: RGTI) in one of the strangest quantum stock setups on the market. The stocks look damaged, but the businesses tell a more complicated story, with revenue growth, government contracts, acquisition potential, and major technology risk all colliding at once. Continue reading
Monica Schipper/Getty Images Entertainment Editor's note: Corrects probability for 25-basis-point rate hike in the fifth paragraph. The May nonfarm payrolls report came in stronger than expected and marked three straight months of solid job gains. That has many Fed watchers expecting the central bankers' next rate move will more likely be a hike than a cut as elevated inflation persists for five y...
Monica Schipper/Getty Images Entertainment Editor's note: Corrects probability for 25-basis-point rate hike in the fifth paragraph. The May nonfarm payrolls report came in stronger than expected and marked three straight months of solid job gains. That has many Fed watchers expecting the central bankers' next rate move will more likely be a hike than a cut as elevated inflation persists for five years. The Trump administration, though, still argues that a rate cut may be warranted. The U.S. economy added 172K jobs in May , according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' employment situation report, exceeding the consensus of 85K. It revised the previous two months of numbers up by 93K. Meanwhile, core PCE, the Fed's preferred inflation measure, rose 3.3% Y/Y in April, well above the central bank's 2% target. Former Federal Reserve Vice Chair Roger Ferguson believes there could be a rate hike this year as inflation remains stubbornly high, he said during an interview on Friday. "With this labor market report plus the (upward) revisions and still sticky inflation, you've got to have a hike on the table at some point this year." Earlier, the debate had been on whether the labor market was weakening or stabilizing. "Now the debate is definitely going from stabilizing to, not overheating, but in a strong and positive direction," he said. Indeed, the probability for a 25-basis-point rate hike by the end of the year increased to 42.6% from 38.2% on Thursday, according to the CME FedWatch tool. The odds of a 50-bp hike jumped to 20.7% from 10.9% a day earlier. Kevin Hassett, director of the White House's National Economic Council, thinks there's a scenario where cutting rates won't boost inflation. He touted the May jobs number, saying, "This is a job market that's hitting on all cylinders." "I don't think it's a classic Phillips curve 'here goes inflation is going to take off' kind of jobs market," he explained. "It's a supply-side driven job market boom, which, I think, mean...
BlackRock Global Fixed Income CIO Rick Rieder reacts to the May US employment report and discusses the impact of AI and the Iran conflict on financial markets. Speaking with Matt Miller on "Bloomberg Open Interest," Rieder also comments on Bank of Japan and Federal Reserve monetary policies, bond yields and the private credit market. (Source: Bloomberg)
BlackRock Global Fixed Income CIO Rick Rieder reacts to the May US employment report and discusses the impact of AI and the Iran conflict on financial markets. Speaking with Matt Miller on "Bloomberg Open Interest," Rieder also comments on Bank of Japan and Federal Reserve monetary policies, bond yields and the private credit market. (Source: Bloomberg)
A couple of weeks ago, we learned from Audi CEO Gernot Döllner that the automaker was likely working on a replacement for its R8 supercar . We now know what it will probably look like, as the brand unveiled the Nuvolari concept in the South of France yesterday on the eve of the Monaco Grand Prix. The Nuvolari's styling is a departure from Audi's current design language, though it remains consisten...
A couple of weeks ago, we learned from Audi CEO Gernot Döllner that the automaker was likely working on a replacement for its R8 supercar . We now know what it will probably look like, as the brand unveiled the Nuvolari concept in the South of France yesterday on the eve of the Monaco Grand Prix. The Nuvolari's styling is a departure from Audi's current design language, though it remains consistent with the Concept C , a more compact coupe that will use the same underpinnings as Porsche's electric Boxster. Similarly, the Nuvolari leverages another of Audi's stablemates within the Volkswagen Group empire: Lamborghini. As with both generations of R8, the Nuvolari uses Lamborghini's smaller mid-engined platform. The Nuvolari looks rather clinical in these renderings. Credit: Audi Dare I say the carbon bodywork is a bit slab-like? Credit: Audi The Nuvolari's interior. Credit: Audi In the past, that meant a wonderful-sounding naturally aspirated V10 lived behind the cockpit within the aluminum space frame chassis. But the Huracán is gone now, and with it, that engine. Now it's time for the Temerario , which amazed our reviewer when we tested one in February due to the accessibility of its performance and the advances it made over its predecessor. The Nuvolari may even eclipse the Lamborghini for performance; with 987 hp (736 kW), it equals the Bugatti Veyron's output. Read full article Comments
Iran’s attack last month on a nuclear power plant in the United Arab Emirates has prompted the world’s atomic watchdog to look at whether reactors’ external power supply lines need additional protection against the threat of war. The strike on the Barakah facility exposed vulnerabilities that few in the industry had seriously contemplated when the plant was designed, International Atomic Energy Ag...
Iran’s attack last month on a nuclear power plant in the United Arab Emirates has prompted the world’s atomic watchdog to look at whether reactors’ external power supply lines need additional protection against the threat of war. The strike on the Barakah facility exposed vulnerabilities that few in the industry had seriously contemplated when the plant was designed, International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said on Friday. While the plant withstood the attack without a radiological emergency, it triggered a temporary loss of offsite power, forcing emergency diesel generators to kick in, he said. Such backup power sources are one of the last lines of defense to maintain nuclear safety. Reactors need a constant supply of electricity to keep cooling and circulation running. Without those systems, fuel inside a reactor’s core can overheat, potentially resulting in a dangerous release of radiation, as happened in 2011 at Japan’s Fukushima plant. “The industry recognizes we live in a world of conflict,” Grossi said. Utilities and regulators need to increase their emphasis on emergency preparedness, particularly backup electricity supplies and grid connections, he said. The IAEA is now working with UAE authorities to assess lessons from the Barakah incident, he said. Read More: How Attack on UAE Shows Nuclear Plants’ Vulnerability: Explainer The attack on the UAE has sharpened a debate that’s been quietly spreading through the nuclear industry since Russia ’s invasion of Ukraine: How do operators protect reactors in an era when major energy infrastructure is increasingly viewed as a wartime target? Fighting around Ukraine’s Russia-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has repeatedly raised fears of a severe accident. Strikes near Iran’s reactor in Bushehr have similarly prompted concerns over contamination. Russia itself has seen attacks affect the operations of one of its nuclear facilities in Kursk . These risks have implications beyond exi...
JPMorgan on Friday lifted its sell rating on Tesla — which it's had since July 2023 — touting the company's vertically integrated supply chain and artificial intelligence capabilities. The investment bank raised its rating on the stock to "neutral" from "underweight" – which is the equivalent of "sell." JPMorgan analyst Rajat Gupta said the crossover between Tesla's business units, including autom...
JPMorgan on Friday lifted its sell rating on Tesla — which it's had since July 2023 — touting the company's vertically integrated supply chain and artificial intelligence capabilities. The investment bank raised its rating on the stock to "neutral" from "underweight" – which is the equivalent of "sell." JPMorgan analyst Rajat Gupta said the crossover between Tesla's business units, including automotive and robotics, was "under-appreciated and misunderstood." "Using cell and vehicle production factories as a test bed for Optimus/Humanoids should not only lower [costs] for the base automotive business, but more importantly, help validate the product at an industrial scale," he wrote in a note to investors. The upgrade comes ahead of the hotly anticipated initial public offering for another one of Tesla CEO Elon Musk's companies, SpaceX. SpaceX is slated to debut on the Nasdaq on June 12 and is targeting a $1.8 trillion valuation and a share price of $135 in what could be the largest IPO ever. Wall Street firms, funds and major stock indexes have been attempting to garner favor with the company ahead of its debut , which will offer an atypically large allocation for retail investors. Stock indexes have been reconsidering their rules for inclusion ahead of the SpaceX IPO and other expected large IPOs from AI companies OpenAI and Anthropic. Usually it takes years for a company to enter a benchmark index like the S & P 500 or the Nasdaq 100 . S & P Dow Jones Indices said Thursday it would not be making any changes to its entry requirements for its major indices, dealing a setback to SpaceX. S & P said it decided that exceptions to its index entry requirements "should not be granted solely based on market capitalization." Nasdaq and FTSE Russell have recently made rule changes that will make expedited index entry easier for large companies. Investors are also looking ahead to the possibility of a merger between Musk-run companies SpaceX and Tesla. "I think it would be a ve...
Recent moves by trading platform Robinhood into prediction markets could boost the stock, which is down more than 40% from its 52-week high, according to Deutsche Bank. The bank in a Friday note reiterated its buy rating on the stock and hiked its price target to $98. That implies an 11% gain from Thursday's close. On Thursday, Robinhood announced that it was starting to direct some of its event c...
Recent moves by trading platform Robinhood into prediction markets could boost the stock, which is down more than 40% from its 52-week high, according to Deutsche Bank. The bank in a Friday note reiterated its buy rating on the stock and hiked its price target to $98. That implies an 11% gain from Thursday's close. On Thursday, Robinhood announced that it was starting to direct some of its event contracts to Rothera, the prediction market it developed in a joint venture with Susquehanna International Group. Select event contracts related to the World Cup and professional baseball will be routed to the platform. That should be a boost to the company, which already processes large volumes of event contracts, analyst Brian Bedell said. HOOD 1Y mountain Robinhood 1-year. "Today's Rothera launch is strategically timed with the 2026 World Cup to drive engagement on this fast-growing asset class, which has already seen over 16bn contracts traded year-to-date in 2026," Bedell wrote. While some contracts will be routed toward Rothera, Robinhood will still feature event contracts from Kalshi and ForecastEx, Interactive Brokers ' prediction market platform. A spokesperson for Robinhood told CNBC on Thursday, though, that this was not the official launch of the company's prediction market platform. And while Robinhood will still feature other platforms' contracts, lower fees on Rothera could be attractive to traders, Bedell noted. Rothera's fees will be capped at one cent per contract, similar to ForecastEx's fee structure, but less than Kalshi's maximum of two cents per contract. "The new exchange, combined with a revised lower-fee structure, (albeit maintaining consistent levels of monetization) confirms management's prior message of providing a best-in-class pricing for prediction markets to customers, and we updated our volume forecasts to better reflect potentially greater user participation," Bedell wrote.
SpaceX has already received orders for more than the shares available in its record-setting $75 billion initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter, shortly after starting to formally market the deal. The IPO for Elon Musk ’s rocket, satellite and artificial intelligence company is oversubscribed after early one-on-one conversions, one of the people said, asking not to be...
SpaceX has already received orders for more than the shares available in its record-setting $75 billion initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter, shortly after starting to formally market the deal. The IPO for Elon Musk ’s rocket, satellite and artificial intelligence company is oversubscribed after early one-on-one conversions, one of the people said, asking not to be identified as the information isn’t public. The Starbase, Texas-based company is offering shares at $135 each in a deal that could value it at roughly $1.8 trillion. The deal is expected to price June 11 and begin trading the following day, and remains very early in the process, the people said. Deliberations are ongoing and details could change, the people said. A spokesperson for SpaceX didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Musk’s decision to offer shares at a fixed price ahead of the order-taking is almost unheard of for sizable US IPOs, unlike in Europe and Asia. Most companies typically announce a price range before marketing shares during investor presentations, with only a handful of tiny firms skipping the opportunity to gauge demand, and potentially build excitement by pricing at the top or above. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. , Morgan Stanley , Bank of America Corp. , Citigroup Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. are leading the deal, with 18 other banks participating. The company formally known as Space Exploration Technologies Corp. expects to make its debut on Nasdaq and Nasdaq Texas under the symbol SPCX.
Bargain hunters are wise to pay careful attention to insider buying, because although there are many various reasons for an insider to sell a stock, presumably the only reason they would use their hard-earned cash to make a purchase, is that they expect to make money. Today we
Bargain hunters are wise to pay careful attention to insider buying, because although there are many various reasons for an insider to sell a stock, presumably the only reason they would use their hard-earned cash to make a purchase, is that they expect to make money. Today we