SMIC reports 5% growth in first-quarter profit, missing forecast
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp,China's largest contract chipmaker, on Thursday reported a 5% year-on-year increase in first-quarter profit.
May 14, 2026Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp,China's largest contract chipmaker, on Thursday reported a 5% year-on-year increase in first-quarter profit.
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What matters in U.S. and global markets today By Mike Dolan, Editor-at-Large, Finance and Markets U.S.
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In China, Elon Musk has been the object of love - and occasional loathing.
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Cisco shares surged 17% to a record-high on Thursday, set for their biggest single-day gain in over two decades, after it posted AI demand-powered strong results
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Meta and Google enlisted trusted children's brands such as Sesame Street, Girl Scouts and Highlights magazine to teach kids to use technology in
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Italy's defence minister said on Thursday he had written twice to the Treasury urging a decision on whether to tap a European Union arms-
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The Republican-led Senate Banking Committee on Thursday advanced long-awaited legislation that would create regulations for cryptocurrencies - a landmark step for the
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Pope Leo XIV has denounced investments in AI and high-tech weaponry, warning they lead to a “spiral of annihilation.”
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Taiwan's Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics maker, reported on Thursday a 19% rise in first-quarter profit versus
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Honda says it racked up a full-year loss for the first time ever, losing $2.7 billion in the last fiscal year due to a costly electric-vehicle strategy
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Honda Motor posted its first annual loss in nearly 70 years as a listed company on Thursday, hit by more than $9 billion in costs to restructure its
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OpenAI said on Wednesday it found no evidence that its user data was accessed after a security issue involving a supply-chain attack on TanStack npm, an open-source library.
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Samsung Electronics on Thursday proposed that its South Korean labour union resume pay talks after government-mediated negotiations fell apart, a union leader said, citing a
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Leaders of three of the biggest U.S. public pension systems said they have major concerns over SpaceX's "extreme" ownership and control set-up in its upcoming
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told state broadcaster CCTV on Thursday that he hoped U.S.
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Parents across the country who are worried about excessive screen time in schools are lobbying educators to go back to pencils and paper
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TSMC, the world's largest contract chipmaker, expects the global semiconductor market to exceed $1.5 trillion by 2030, topping its previous forecast
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Hedge fund Citadel has moved some of its core researchers out of Hong Kong, telling members of its global quantitative strategies team in recent months that they had to either
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EagleRock, a land and resource management company that collects royalties and fees from oil and gas production on the land it controls in the Permian Basin, has raised $320.1
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A threatened strike by Samsung Electronics' union would be a significant risk to South Korea's economic growth, exports and markets, Finance Minister Koo Yun-cheol said on
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A newly formed Blackstone data center real estate investment trust has raised $1.75 billion in its U.S. initial public offering, it said on Wednesday.
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A lawyer for Meta Platforms on Wednesday argued that New Mexico's $3.7 billion proposal to address teen mental health harms goes too far, saying it would force
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Cerebras Systems priced its U.S. initial public offering at $185 per share on Wednesday, above the top end of its indicated price range, the company said,
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U.S. President Donald Trump has arrived in Beijing for his highly anticipated summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping at a restless moment for a world worried about war, trade and artificial intelligence
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Cisco said on Wednesday it would cut nearly 4,000 jobs, as part of a restructuring aimed at shifting investment toward artificial intelligence and related growth areas,
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The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday it will spend $16.5 million to install transponders on its airport vehicles after a fatal
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Microsoft is shopping for artificial-intelligence startups as the software company prepares for a future
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Investor support for Ford Motor's energy storage business sent its stock soaring 13% Wednesday, the biggest single-day increase in about six years, following
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The National Transportation Safety Board on Wednesday recommended improving training for pilot preparedness for smoke-in-cockpit emergencies after a
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OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman holds more than $2 billion in companies that have done business with the artificial intelligence company, a
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LinkedIn planned to inform staff of layoffs on Wednesday, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters, in a widening of
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French authorities are examining whether a foreign interference campaign aimed at a hard-left party ahead of March's municipal
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President Donald Trump's trade war with Beijing has sent U.S.-China trade into a freefall and forced companies on both sides of the Pacific to regroup
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France's highest administrative court, the Conseil d'Etat, rejected on Wednesday a challenge by Internet giant Amazon over minimum delivery fees on books, as the country
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Shutterstock will pay $35 million to settle U.S.
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Geothermal energy developer Fervo Energy said on Tuesday it has raised $1.89 billion in its upsized U.S. initial public offering, highlighting robust investor appetite for the
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The Philadelphia region is rich in golf history, yet the area's greatest contribution to the game may have come from public course in West Philadelphia
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Nebius Group reported a nearly eightfold rise in quarterly revenue on Wednesday, benefiting from increasing demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure and cloud services,
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Apple on Wednesday echoed Google's criticism of EU antitrust regulators' efforts to force the search giant to help AI rivals access its services, warning
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Prominent U.S. executives from Big Tech and Wall Street to agriculture and aerospace joined President Donald Trump on his trip to China
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The Pentagon is set to announce on Wednesday framework agreements that position it to potentially acquire over 10,000 low-cost, containerized missiles over three
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China's Alibaba said it would exceed its planned AI investment of up to 380 billion yuan ($55.96 billion) over the next three years, as early
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Russia's repeated airspace violations of countries on the eastern flank of NATO underline the urgent need to consolidate the alliance's air defences against missiles and
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Meta Platforms is rolling out a new "Incognito Chat" feature for its artificial intelligence assistant on WhatsApp messaging service, the company
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China's Alibaba has reported accelerating AI and cloud revenue growth driven by the AI boom, which has jumped 38% in the January-March quarter compared to the year before
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A federal judge on Wednesday cast doubt on the motives behind the U.S.
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President Donald Trump landed in Beijing accompanied by an entourage that included Nvidia's Jensen Huang and Elon Musk
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Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi plans to visit Britain and Italy before attending a Group of Seven leaders' summit in France in mid-June, broadcaster NTV reported on
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Sweden's Volvo Cars is open to cooperation with other companies in the United States as the auto maker seeks to better utilise the existing production capacity at its South
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Individual investors who can't seem to get enough of the red-hot market for semiconductor stocks have made a five-week-old exchange-traded
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Samsung Electronics and its union failed to reach a pay deal on Wednesday, heightening the risk of a long strike that threatens not only chip
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A stunning run-up in shares of semiconductor companies has helped drive the U.S. stock rally, but the eye-popping gains are sparking concerns about an
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China is pushing back against proposed U.S. legislation that would curb its chipmakers in the global AI race, making early moves that underscore Beijing's concerns
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European Central Bank board member Frank Elderson on Wednesday urged banks in the euro area to quickly prepare for potential cyberattacks launched with the help of
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Japanese automaker Nissan says it reduced losses for the fiscal year through March
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Defense technology start-up Anduril Industries said on Wednesday that it has raised $5 billion, doubling its valuation to $61 billion.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will join President Donald Trump during his visit to Beijing, igniting hopes in China that the
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China and the U.S. are considering extending a truce on Chinese rare earth export curbs at a leaders' summit
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Emergency medical services provider GMR Solutions has raised $478.7 million in its U.S. initial public offering, the company said on Tuesday, after selling 31.9 million shares at $
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Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday it regretted the collapse of pay deal talks with its South Korean union, flagging concerns that it could heighten anxiety among
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U.S. legislation that would require social media companies to take more responsibility for how their apps affect children and teens overcame a key
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Meta employees distributed flyers at multiple U.S. offices on Tuesday to protest the company's recent installation of mouse-tracking software on their
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took the witness stand Tuesday to defend his business record in a trial pitting him against Elon Musk, rebutting testimony that disparaged his leadership at a pivotal time for the ChatGPT maker
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Denver airport workers initially missed a security breach by a man who scaled an 8-foot perimeter fence and crossed a runway where he was hit and killed by a plane with 231 people on board
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Fire reported on natural gas platform off Santa Barbara coast
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