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ANKARA, May 20 (Reuters) – Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan will tell NATO foreign ministers this week that the next NATO leaders’ summit, set for Ankara in July, should reaffirm the alliance’s unity and integrity, a foreign ministry source said on Wednesday. • Fidan will attend a meeting of NATO foreign ministers on Thursday and Friday in Sweden’s Helsingborg. • Turkey will host the next NATO leaders’ summit in Ankara […]

By Dan Burns WASHINGTON, May 20 (Reuters) – The depth of the differences among Federal Reserve policymakers’ views on the direction of interest rates and severity of inflation will be on view on Wednesday with the release of a readout of the most divided meeting in a generation, one that also marked the end of Chair Jerome Powell’s leadership tenure. With Powell’s successor Kevin Warsh set to be sworn in […]

SINGAPORE, May 20 (Reuters) – Singapore is in talks with technology companies about attaching “nutrition labels” to AI products, designating their intended uses and limitations, a senior minister said on Wednesday. “We may start with a voluntary framework, and then in time … we’ll see how effective these kinds of labels are before deciding to take the next step,” digital development and information minister Josephine Teo told Reuters in an […]

By AJ Vicens May 20 (Reuters) – Early fears that Anthropic’s new AI model, Mythos, could dramatically turbocharge hacking are looking overstated a month after its release. The company warned at launch in April that Mythos had uncovered thousands of software vulnerabilities — including flaws across every major operating system and browser — and said the fallout from its spread could be severe. Governments took notice. Officials in multiple countries huddled […]

By Julien Pretot PARIS, May 20 (Reuters) – World number one Jannik Sinner has the chance to complete his Grand Slam haul at the French Open after ticking off a full set of Masters 1000 titles earlier this month, and the withdrawal of holder Carlos Alcaraz has changed the feel of the tournament. Alcaraz, who would have been aiming for a third straight French title, has established himself as the […]

PARIS, May 20 (Reuters) – Germany’s Alexander Zverev has been knocking on the door for the best part of a decade but is still waiting to enter the club of Grand Slam champions and time might be running out. Zverev, 29, will get another chance at Roland Garros where he will chalk up a 41st Grand Slam main draw appearance. With one sizeable hurdle removed, he may not get a […]

May 20 (Reuters) – Foreign selling in Asian equities has accelerated so far in May as investors turn cautious over the impact of war-driven inflation and higher borrowing costs on corporate margins across the region. Foreign investors have so far sold a net $24.75 billion of regional equities this month, with a record $17.27 billion of shares divested in the last week, LSEG data covering exchanges in South Korea, Taiwan, […]

LONDON, May 20 (Reuters) – Hedge funds stuck to their holdings in companies with strong fundamentals in April, particularly technology and semiconductor stocks, according to a report on Wednesday from data platform Hazeltree, in a month when the S&P 500 jumped over 10%.  Here are the details about hedge fund positioning in April:   • Among mega-cap stocks, Meta and Amazon.com experienced more than a 5% month-over-month increase in the number […]

By Susanne Neumayer-Remter and James Mackenzie HALBERSTADT, Germany, May 20 (Reuters) – As German Chancellor Friedrich Merz struggles to halt a relentless slide in approval ratings, Ulrich Siegmund, from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), is on a roll. Buoyed by polls putting his party up to 7 points ahead of Merz’s conservatives nationwide, the 35-year-old expects to become Germany’s first AfD state premier when the eastern region of Saxony-Anhalt […]