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Hegseth wants Pentagon to dump Anthropic's Claude, but military users say it's not so easy
March 19 - Pentagon staffers, former officials and IT contractors who work closely with the U.S. military say they are reluctant to give up Anthropic's AI tools, which they view as superior to alterna...
Thomson Reuters Mar 19, 2026
Wall Street bank capital to fall 4.8% under new rules, in win for industry
By Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON, March 19 (Reuters) - Wall Street bank capital would fall 4.8% under softened rules regulators unveiled on Thursday, freeing up billions of dollars for lending, dividends ...
Thomson Reuters Mar 19, 2026
Samsung Elec to supply HBM4 chips to OpenAI, South Korean paper says
SEOUL, March 19 (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics plans to supply its next-generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM4) chips to OpenAI for use in the ChatGPT maker's first in-house artificial intelligence p...
Thomson Reuters Mar 19, 2026
US stock futures dip as soaring oil prices, Fed outlook spook investors
March 19 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures slipped on Thursday as crude prices soared on intensifying hostilities in the Middle East, fanning inflation worries that have prompted the Federal Reserv...
Thomson Reuters Mar 19, 2026
Citi's surprise index shows longest upside run since financial crisis, awaits war impact
By Alun John and Dhara Ranasinghe LONDON, March 19 (Reuters) - Global economic growth has continued to outperform expectations for 14 straight months - just as the war in Iran fuels fresh concerns abo...
Thomson Reuters Mar 19, 2026
Micron shares slip as hefty spending plans eclipse strong AI-fueled earnings
By Kritika Lamba and Joel Jose March 19 (Reuters) - Micron shares fell about 5% on Thursday as the chipmaker's plan to boost capital outlay unnerved investors, taking the shine off another round of bl...
Thomson Reuters Mar 19, 2026
Taiwan central bank raises growth outlook, sees war impact on inflation
By Liang-sa Loh and Faith Hung TAIPEI, March 19 (Reuters) - Taiwan's central bank on Thursday raised its growth outlook substantially for the year thanks to booming tech exports, but it also raised it...
Thomson Reuters Mar 19, 2026
Traders add to hawkish rate bets on big day for European central banks
By Samuel Indyk and Yoruk Bahceli LONDON, March 19 (Reuters) - Investors ramped up bets for interest rate hikes in Europe on Thursday before European Central Bank and Bank of England policy decisions,...
Thomson Reuters Mar 19, 2026
Exxon, BP, Vitol ship most US fuels to Australia for a single month in three decades, traders say
By Trixie Yap and Shariq Khan SINGAPORE/NEW YORK, March 19 (Reuters) - ExxonMobil, BP and Vitol are shipping a record volume of oil products to Australia from the United States in March, shipping data...
Thomson Reuters Mar 19, 2026
Swiss National Bank holds rates amid Iran conflict, watches franc strength
By John Revill ZURICH, March 19 (Reuters) - The Swiss National Bank kept its policy rate on hold on Thursday in the face of uncertainty over the Iran war, and signalled readiness to intervene to curb ...
Thomson Reuters Mar 19, 2026



