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Palantir shares post biggest daily slide since 2022 after forecast disappoints
Shares of Palantir Technologies fell 15.1% on Tuesday in their biggest daily percentage drop since May 2022, a day after the data analytics company gave a revenue forecast that disappointed. Still, several brokerages raised their price targets following the report, including D.A. Davidson, which raised its target to $24 from $19. "While guidance for FY2024 was increased, it was lighter than expected," D.A. Davidson analysts wrote in their research note, adding that management had noted "they'r
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China's Xi lands in Serbia after talking Ukraine, trade in France
Xi Jinping arrived in Belgrade on Tuesday evening, after French President Emmanuel Macron hosted a high altitude lunch at a childhood haunt in the Pyrenees mountains for the Chinese leader.Writing in Serbian daily Politika ahead of arriving in Belgrade, Xi criticised NATO for its "flagrant" bombing of the Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia in 1999, warning Beijing would "never allow such tragic history to repeat itself".
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Electronic Arts forecasts annual bookings below estimates as gamers cut spending
The Redwood City, California-based company's shares fell 3.4% in extended trading. The dour forecast from EA, one of the biggest names in gaming, will add to the industry's already gloomy outlook, which has been coping with gamers cutting back on discretionary spending amid high inflation. Analysts from Roth MKM had warned about the company's outlook in a research note last week citing a lack of visibility into EA's development pipeline and lighter release schedule.
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Woman Whose Husband Allegedly Drove Her Off A Cliff Pleads For His Release
Dharmesh Patel pleaded not guilty to three counts of attempted murder after he allegedly drove his Tesla off a cliff with his family trapped inside.
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US State Dept broadens security vendor list amid Microsoft hacking woes
The U.S. Department of State has been working with a range of security vendors beyond Microsoft since China-linked hackers stole tens of thousands of the department's emails by breaching the tech giant's network last year, a senior official said. That hack, which compromised some 60,000 State Department emails, including those of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, was one of the worst in recent years against a federal agency and triggered much criticism of Microsoft.
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US repatriates two dozen Westerners from Syria IS camp
The United States announced Tuesday it had brought back two dozen Western citizens, half of them Americans, from Islamic State prison camps in northeastern Syria where tens of thousands have languished.The United States in the same operation facilitated the repatriation of six Canadian citizens, four Dutch citizens and one Finnish citizen, eight of them children, he said.
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Brazilians queue for precious water as flood damage intensifies
Humanitarian aid arrived Tuesday in Porto Alegre and other flood-ravaged municipalities of southern Brazil, where queues formed for drinking water as forecasters warned of more downpours.In the municipality of Alvorada, west of Porto Alegre, there were queues of people with buckets and plastic bottles, collecting drinking water from the few municipal taps still working.
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