Volvo shares jump 20% on higher sales, plans to stop Polestar funding

Volvo shares jump 20% on higher sales, plans to stop Polestar funding

A Volvo C40 Recharge electric SUV is on display during the Volvo “A New Era of Volvo Cars” press conference at The Shilla Seoul on March 14, 2023 in Seoul, South Korea. Han Myung-gu | Wireimage | Getty Images Volvo Cars shares surged more than 20% Thursday after the Swedish automaker announced that it will … Read more

Tesla will hold a shareholder vote to incorporate in Texas

Tesla will hold a shareholder vote to incorporate in Texas

SpaceX, X (formerly known as Twitter), and Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks during live interview with Ben Shapiro at the symposium on fighting antisemitism on January 22, 2024 in Krakow, Poland. Omar Marques | Getty Images Elon Musk said late Wednesday that Tesla will hold a shareholder vote on whether to transfer the electric carmaker’s … Read more

Red Sea freight rate inflation may be peaking already

Red Sea freight rate inflation may be peaking already

Camille Delbos/art In All Of Us | Corbis News | Getty Images The sharp, sudden spike in supply chain inflation caused by the Red Sea crisis and ongoing attacks on shipping vessels by Houthi rebels may have peaked on key global trade routes, based on analysis of the latest data from Xeneta, a leading ocean … Read more

Volkswagen sets up AI lab as car industry looks to embrace the tech

Volkswagen sets up AI lab as car industry looks to embrace the tech

Volkswagen, like other car giants, are pushing heavily into AI to boost their technology credentials and make their cars smarter. Ismail Aslandag | Anadolu via Getty Images German automaker Volkswagen has established its own artificial intelligence lab, the company said Wednesday, reflecting growing ambitions from the car industry to adopt the buzzy technology. In a … Read more

Voyager’s Starlab space station buys SpaceX Starship launch

Voyager’s Starlab space station buys SpaceX Starship launch

An artist’s rendering of the Starlab space station in low Earth orbit. Voyager Space / Starlab Space LLC A contract written in the stars. Private station Starlab will fly on a Starship rocket later this decade to get to orbit, the companies’ developing both spacecraft announced on Wednesday. Starlab – being built by Voyager Space … Read more

Boeing (BA) Q4 2023 earnings

Boeing (BA) Q4 2023 earnings

A grounded Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft at Los Angeles International Airport. Eric Thayer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Boeing on Wednesday is set to report fourth-quarter results and answer to investors eager to hear how a midair blowout on one of the plane maker’s new 737 Max 9s could reverberate through the aviation industry … Read more

World’s No. 1 shipper pleads with Congress to help end Houthi ‘chaos’

World’s No. 1 shipper pleads with Congress to help end Houthi ‘chaos’

A cargo ship crosses the Suez Canal, one of the most critical human-made waterways, in Ismailia, Egypt on December 29, 2023.  Fareed Kotb | Anadolu | Getty Images The world’s largest shipping company, MSC, and several retail and trade experts warned Congress on Tuesday that if the Red Sea chaos caused by Houthi rebel attacks … Read more

Carnival reroutes cruises as Red Sea tensions rise

Carnival reroutes cruises as Red Sea tensions rise

The Carnival Radiance cruise ship at the Avalon, California, harbor on May 19, 2023. Aaronp/bauer-griffin | Gc Images | Getty Images Carnival announced Tuesday it would reroute cruise itineraries for a dozen ships scheduled to transit the Red Sea as tensions rise in the Middle East. “Given recent developments and in close consultation with global … Read more

GM to release plug-in hybrid vehicles, backtracking on product plans

GM to release plug-in hybrid vehicles, backtracking on product plans

General Motors reveals the new 2016 Chevrolet Volt to the media at the 2015 North American International Auto Show on January 12, 2015 in Detroit, Michigan. Getty Images DETROIT – General Motors is changing its product lineup strategy to include plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, CEO Mary Barra told investors Tuesday. Barra did not disclose specific … Read more

UPS announces 12,000 job cuts; reports drop in package volume

UPS announces 12,000 job cuts; reports drop in package volume

A United Parcel Service truck searches for a house driving along the coast of Cape Cod on July 24, 2023 in Orleans, Massachusetts.  Robert Nickelsberg | Getty Images UPS fell short of Wall Street revenue estimates Tuesday, reporting drops in shipping volume, both internationally and domestically, in its fourth-quarter earnings report. The company also announced … Read more