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SVB crisis: Why biz world should worry about the decline of liberal arts

Most companies will have to grapple with the question of establishing the right division of labor between knowledge workers and intelligent machines

Credit Suisse sees First Boston IPO by 2025 amid investor search

Credit Suisse announced earlier today that senior leaders in the carved-out unit are expected to receive up to 20% of shares

How shipping industry is trying to clean up its biggest, dirtiest problem

A 2022 report concluded container ships can reduce fuel consumption and CO2 emissions by 14% per voyage if they optimize their speeds

India offers Taliban 'crash course' in economics, leadership, culture

The four-day virtual course that starts Tuesday is called "Immersing with Indian Thoughts," and will be taught by the Indian Institute of Management in the southern city of Kozhikode

Volkswagen sets 180 bn euro spending plan to further new technology

Nearly 70% of the spending in the next half decade will go to electric vehicles and software, up from 56% during the previous rolling plan, VW said Tuesday.

SVB mess: Moody's puts First Republic, 5 other US banks on downgrade watch

The credit rating company cited concerns over the lenders' reliance on uninsured deposit funding and unrealized losses in their asset portfolios

Too-big-to-fail US lenders rake in deposits after three banks fail

JPMorgan Chase & Co., the largest US bank, alone received billions of dollars in recent days, and Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc. and Wells Fargo & Co. are also seeing higher-than-usual volume

Zuckerberg was warned on social media addiction, says court filing

"No one wakes up thinking they want to maximize the number of times they open Instagram that day," one Meta employee wrote in 2021. "But that's exactly what our product teams are trying to do."

Here's what Silicon Valley Bank's collapse means for climate tech

It's the first major headwind to blow against a boom in climate-tech investing that was capped off by incentives in the US Inflation Reduction Act last year

Where will startups turn to now that the Silicon Valley Bank is gone?

Silicon Valley Bank became the financier to tech stars by offering an array of products tailored to their needs, that few other institutions dared

SVB's collapse drives concern over Japanese banks' exposure to US bonds

SVB's woes have been rooted in tens of billions of dollars it plowed into longer-term bonds, confident that rates would stay steady

After SVB, Signature Bank latest casualty of turmoil in banking sector

Signature Bank, a New York state-chartered commercial bank that's FDIC-insured, had total assets of about $110.36 billion and total deposits of roughly $88.59 billion as of Dec. 31

HSBC Holdings to buy Silicon Valley Bank's UK arm for £1 in tech repreive

The London-listed lender's "ring-fenced subsidiary, HSBC UK Bank plc, is acquiring Silicon Valley Bank UK Limited (SVB UK) for £1," HSBC said in a statement Monday.

Russia remains India's main arms supplier but imports dip sharply

India has been the world's largest arms importer since 1993 and "tensions with Pakistan and China largely drive its demand for arms imports," the report added

Will Vladimir Putin attend India G20 summit? Russia clears diary

Kremlin defiance is growing as efforts by the US and its allies to isolate Russia over its invasion of Ukraine are stalling in the face of reluctance among other countries to join

SVB collapse brings Softbank's startup financing under investors' lens

Now investors are cautiously pulling back despite the overnight pledge from US authorities to rescue the US lender that sits at the heart of Silicon Valley's venture capital ecosystem

SVB: Indian banks stand out amid 'global gloom and doom', says Macquarie

"Despite concerns of a slowdown in loan growth and margin compression, the earnings upgrade cycle continues for the banking sector," the analyst wrote

Here's everything we know about how the Fed is handling the SVB crisis

Fearing contagion would upend the industry, the US Federal Reserve, Treasury Department and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. moved quickly over the weekend to protect customer deposits

China could control a third of the world's Lithium supply by 2025: UBS AG

The bank expects Chinese-controlled mines, including projects in Africa, to raise output to 705,000 tons by 2025, from 194,000 tons in 2022

Xi urges lawmakers to focus on China's stability at start of third term

He vowed to oppose foreign interference on Taiwan, a veiled reference to increasing American support for the democratically elected government in Taipei