Bloomberg Intel Corp shares plummeted to their lowest close since December, after the chipmaker reported third-quarter results and detailed a spending plan that it said would pressure profitability over the next few years. The stock falls 12%, its biggest one-day percentage decline since July 2020, marking the sixth straight quarter where Intel’s results were met with a negative reaction. The ...

Bloomberg Tencent Holdings Ltd said loopholes created during a recent tech upgrade made some content on its enclosed WeChat ecosystem available on search engines. While the company said the vulnerability had already been fixed, searches performed using Google, which is blocked in mainland China, and Microsoft Corp’s Bing were still able to locate social media articles from WeChat. Articles on ...

Bloomberg Renault SA will lose out on far more car production this year than previously anticipated because of the worsening global chip shortage, another obstacle to the carmaker’s turnaround plans. The French manufacturer will make around 500,000 fewer vehicles — that’s equivalent to nearly a fifth of last year’s output — due to a lack of components, it said. Renault ...

NEW YORK / WAM In a statement to the UN Security Council’s quarterly open debate on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian Question, the UAE noted recent positive developments to advance peace in the Middle East and to help resume the negotiation process and build confidence between the parties to advance the Middle East Peace Process. The ...

Bloomberg India plans to take more ambitious climate action by 2030, even as the nation pushes back against pressure to set a target for net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. The country has already mostly met a goal of having 40% of installed power capacity from non-fossil fuel sources, and has options to extend that action, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in ...

Bloomberg UK Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng sought to damp speculation that taxes will have to rise in order to fund the government’s green goals a day after the Treasury said it would need to consider new sources of revenue to pay for the transition. “I don’t think that tax rises are inevitable,” Kwarteng said when asked on LBC radio what ...

Bloomberg China has started building a massive renewable energy project that’s bigger than all of the wind and solar power in India. Construction on the first phase, comprising 100 gigawatts of wind and solar, in the desert has started smoothly, President Xi Jinping said via video link at a United Nations Biodiversity Conference in Kunming. That’s more than the entire ...

Bloomberg Britain will allow London Heathrow airport to lift its charges by as much as 56%, stoking a clash with airlines who warned that higher fares will stifle a recovery at Europe’s busiest airport. The announcement by the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) sets up months of high-stakes lobbying before a final decision early next year. The hike could prove ...

Bloomberg Asia Aviation Pcl, the operator of Thailand’s biggest budget carrier Thai AirAsia Co, plans to raise as much as 17.9 billion baht ($535 million) from new loans, share sales and convertible-debt offerings as it attempts to restock coffers depleted by the worst crisis in aviation history. A revised financial restructuring plan for the company has been put forward and ...

Bloomberg Airports Company South Africa (Acsa) is looking to generate more income from hotels and land, win service contracts and boost cargo revenue to prepare for a potential fresh wave of Covid-19 infections and restrictions. The state-controlled owner of international hubs including Johannesburg and Cape Town fears a new coronavirus variant may emerge that is vaccine resistant, CEO Mpumi Mpofu ...