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(Bloomberg) — Asian shares headed for their best month since January as traders bet the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates next year and weak Chinese data boosted hopes for more policy support.Most Read from BloombergSaudi Arabia Offers Iran Investment to Blunt Gaza WarCharlie Munger, Who Helped Buffett Build Berkshire, Dies at 99Bill Ackman Bets Fed Will Cut Interest Rates as Soon as First QuarterHenry Kissinger, Secretary of State in 1970s Crises, Dies at 100Bond Yields Fall on Signs Fed

Both Apple and Google today announced their best apps and games of the year, with the hiking and biking companion AllTrails winning as Apple’s iPhone App of the Year in 2023, while the educational app Imprint: Learn Visually won as Google Play’s best app. Meanwhile, Apple and Google agreed on their Game of the Year, as both picked Honkai: Star Rail as their winner. These year-end “best of” lists aren’t just a way to drive interest in new apps and games, but serve as a way to gauge the status of

CUPERTINO, Calif., November 30, 2023–Apple® today unveiled the winners of the 2023 App Store® Awards, recognizing 14 apps and games that empowered users to unleash their creativity, discover a world of new adventures, and have fun with family and friends. This year’s winners include developers from across the world, whose apps and games were chosen by the App Store’s Editorial team for providing users with meaningful experiences and inspiring cultural change. App Store Award winners were select

Leaders from the United Nations and Microsoft Corp. on Thursday announced a partnership that will enable the UNFCCC to create a new AI-powered platform and global climate data hub to measure and analyze global progress in reducing emissions. This will dramatically simplify the process to validate and analyze climate data submitted by the 196 Parties to the Paris Agreement.

App Store Award winners include AllTrails, Photomator, and “Hello Kitty Island Adventure,” plus, Apple says generative AI is 2023’s biggest trend amongst innovative apps.

Apple supplier Foxconn is struggling to get its factories in India to operate efficiently, with employees citing language barriers, culture clashes, and difficulty adapting to strenuous schedules.

The group of directors will expand and strengthen governance structure following CEO Sam Altman’s surprise ouster and return.

Nascar has struck new television and streaming rights deals worth $7.7 billion with media partners including Amazon Warner Bros. Discovery and Fox as interest in the sport grows. The value of Nascar’s new seven-year deals is 40% higher than its prior arrangements, a person familiar with the situation said. Nascar forged new deals with Warner Bros. Discovery’s TNT cable network and Max streaming service, Comcast NBC Sports, Fox and Nexstar’s CW Network.

Salesforce led earnings winners late after stocks erased early gains Wednesday. The Tesla Cybertruck event looms.

Key investor in generative AI start-up seeks to strengthen corporate governance after week of tumult

(Bloomberg) — OpenAI said that Sam Altman was officially reinstated as chief executive officer and that it has a new initial board of directors, with Microsoft Corp. joining as a nonvoting observer.Most Read from BloombergSaudi Arabia Offers Iran Investment to Blunt Gaza WarCharlie Munger, Who Helped Buffett Build Berkshire, Dies at 99Bill Ackman Bets Fed Will Cut Interest Rates as Soon as First QuarterHenry Kissinger, Secretary of State in 1970s Crises, Dies at 100Bond Yields Fall on Signs Fed

Twelve days after OpenAI fired Sam Altman as CEO and Greg Brockman as board chairman, the company formally announced that it has hired them both back.

Sam Altman is officially back as OpenAI’s CEO after a tumultuous week and change. And OpenAI officially has a new board of directors, replacing most of the board that attempted to oust Altman in the days leading up to Thanksgiving. In a letter circulated internally at OpenAI and subsequently published to the OpenAI blog, Altman announced that Mira Murati, who was briefly appointed interim CEO by the previous board, will return to her role as CTO, and confirmed that the initial new board will con

(Reuters) -Microsoft will take a non-voting, observer position on OpenAI’s board, CEO Sam Altman said in his first official missive after taking back the reins of the company on Wednesday. The observer position means Microsoft’s representative can attend OpenAI’s board meetings and access confidential information, but it does not have voting rights on matters including electing or choosing directors. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who had recruited Altman to Microsoft after his ouster from OpenAI, had said earlier that governance at the ChatGPT maker needs to change.

Eleven of the world’s biggest tech companies, including Amazon.com, Alphabet’s Google and Microsoft, will sign an agreement with the British government on Thursday to step up their efforts to tackle online fraud, the interior ministry said. Under the “Online Fraud Charter,” due to be signed at a meeting chaired by Interior Minister James Cleverly in London, the companies pledge to take further action to block and remove fraudulent content from their sites, the government said. In addition to Amazon, Google and Microsoft, the voluntary agreement will be signed by eBay, Meta Platforms’ Facebook and Instagram, Microsoft’s LinkedIn, Match Group, Snap’s Snapchat, ByteDance’s TikTok and Google’s YouTube, with a pledge to implement the measures that apply to their companies within six months.

Treasury yields are swooning across the board as the Fed moves toward rate cuts, but the S&P 500 is barely taking note. Here are some things to keep in mind.

In the most recent trading session, G-III Apparel Group (GIII) closed at $28.81, indicating a -0.03% shift from the previous trading day.

Earnings estimates for Q4 have been steadily coming down since the quarter got underway, a reversal of the favorable revisions trend we have previously highlighted. Where do we go from here?

(Bloomberg) — Six months after abandoning a hot China recovery trade, Taosha Wang is poised to dive back in. Most Read from BloombergSaudi Arabia Offers Iran Investment to Blunt Gaza WarCharlie Munger, Who Helped Buffett Build Berkshire, Dies at 99Bill Ackman Bets Fed Will Cut Interest Rates as Soon as First QuarterHenry Kissinger, Secretary of State in 1970s Crises, Dies at 100Bond Yields Fall on Signs Fed Is in ‘Sweet Spot’: Markets WrapEncouraged by clear growth support signals from Beijing,

The CBOE Volatility Index (^VIX), also known as Wall Street’s ‘fear gauge,’ is trading near its 2023 low. Yahoo Finance’s Jared Blikre breaks down the charts to show why that could potentially be good be a good sign for stock investors.  For more expert insight and the latest market action, click here to watch this full episode of Yahoo Finance Live.