NEW YORK (ANP) - De Amerikaanse beurzen zijn dinsdag met kleine koersverliezen de handel uitgegaan. Beleggers wachten af hoe de onderhandelingen tussen de Verenigde Staten en Iran verlopen. Vooralsnog is er sprake van een patstelling.
Beide landen hebben harde eisen gesteld, waardoor er op dit moment niet verder kan worden onderhandeld over een oplossing van het conflict. Door de onrust en de sluiting van de Straat van Hormuz steeg de olieprijs verder.
De Dow-Jonesindex eindigde 0,3 procent lager op 53.791,85 punten. De breder samengestelde S&P 500, de index van de 500 grootste Amerikaanse beursgenoteerde ondernemingen, verloor ook 0,3 procent op 7728,20 en techgraadmeter Nasdaq zakte 0,6 procent tot 26.445,45 punten.
Olieprijzen
De olieprijzen stegen 1,6 procent, na prijsstijgingen van rond de 5 procent een dag eerder.
Intel steeg 0,2 procent. De chipfabrikant heeft 20 miljard dollar opgehaald met de uitgifte van aandelen. Dat is een derde meer dan Intel bij de aankondiging van de aandelenverkoop maandag had beoogd. Het bedrijf wil het geld gebruiken voor AI-toepassingen.
SpaceX
SpaceX daalde 4 procent. Het bedrijf van Elon Musk lanceerde dinsdag een nieuwe versie van Grok om zo verder te kunnen concurreren met Anthropic en OpenAI.
Trump Media & Technology eindigde ruim 5 procent in de min. Het socialemediabedrijf van Trump, bekend van berichtenplatform Truth Social, leed afgelopen kwartaal flink meer verlies door een waardedaling van de cryptomunten die het bedrijf bezit.
Hims & Hers zakte 4 procent. Het gezondheidsplatform leed afgelopen kwartaal meer verlies dan gevreesd. Het bedrijf zag de kosten stijgen door de overgang naar de verkoop van merkmedicijnen voor gewichtsverlies via zijn platform.
BIRMINGHAM (ANP) - Jonas Phijffers is er op de EK atletiek in Birmingham in geslaagd zich in de finale van de 400 meter te lopen. De 23-jarige atleet uit Hellendoorn won in het Alexander Stadium zijn halve finale in een persoonlijk record van 44,63. De Nederlander liep in de laatste meters zelfs nog de Britse tweevoudig Europees kampioen Matthew Hudson-Smith voorbij.
Phijffers maakte deel uit van de ploeg die maandag brons won op de 4x400 meter gemengd, samen met Terrence Agard, Lieke Klaver en Myrte van der Schoot.
BIRMINGHAM (ANP) - Elvis Afrifa heeft zich geplaatst voor de finale van de 100 meter op de EK atletiek in Birmingham. De 28-jarige sprinter kwam in zijn heat van de halve finales als tweede over de finish in een tijd van 10,25 seconden. Die klassering betekende een directe doorgang naar de eindstrijd van het koningsnummer later dinsdagavond (22.47 uur Nederlandse tijd). De Italiaanse titelverdediger Marcell Jacobs was wel duidelijk sneller met 10,08.
Taymir Burnet haalde de finale niet. De 33-jarige routinier kwam in zijn heat als achtste en laatste over de meet in 10,55. Hij bleek een liesblessure te hebben opgelopen.
Afrifa kan zich opmaken voor zijn eerste grote individuele finale outdoor. Hij maakte samen met Burnet deel uit van de estafetteploeg die afgelopen zomer verraste op de WK atletiek met het brons op de 4x100 meter.
Ebullient manager takes his side to Salzburg to cross swords with the European champions in the Super Cup
One thing was almost instantly detectable as Unai Emery walked into a stuffy room inside the Red Bull Arena on the eve of Wednesday’s Super Cup against Paris Saint-Germain. After a summer of change, Aston Villa’s manager appeared uber-relaxed, confident his team will absorb a series of headline departures. He cracked a joke about his English improving and poked fun at John McGinn, impersonating his captain while next to him on the auditorium’s top table.
Emery was in a jovial mood, then. But he was also switched on, alert to the frequency, the tone of the wave of questions at the beginning of his fourth full season in the job. “You ask about the changes of coaches and players, but McGinn is intelligent and his answer was fantastic,” Emery said with a smile. “When he arrived here [in 2018] they were in the Championship and every year since there have been changes and still the club has moved forward.
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Paramount CEO David Ellison is threatening to begin moving the studio out of California on October 1 if state Attorney General Rob Bonta refuses to enter settlement talks over the proposed Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger. The company would reportedly move its Los Angeles headquarters first and shift most studio jobs out of the state over five years, with Georgia, Texas, and Tennessee under consideration. Variety reports: Ellison's threat to relocate Paramount in retaliation for California's Bonta leading the charge to kill the WBD deal -- a move that would include much of its studio operations, over time -- was first reported by industry newsletter Puck. In response, Bonta called Ellison's planned exit from the state an "attempt to blackmail the state into letting an illegal deal through."
"Paramount has lost the plot as it continues to lose in court," the attorney general wrote in a post on X. "It didn't work the first time -- on the eve of our July lawsuit -- and it won't work this time." Bonta has not publicly said what concessions from Paramount-WBD he would consider acceptable enough to take the lawsuit off the table. But the Democratic attorney general has said any remedies would need to be "structural" (i.e., divestments) rather than "behavioral" (e.g., imposing certain production quotas).
Oct. 1 is when Paramount will begin accruing a "ticking fee" payable to Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders of $7 million per day. The trial in the state AGs' lawsuit is scheduled to start March 2, 2027, roughly five months after that, so Paramount would be on the hook to pay around $1.2 billion to WBD shareholders by the time the trial is scheduled to conclude. (Paramount's ticking-fee payments to WBD are not due until the deal closes.) At the Aug. 5 meeting on Paramount's lot, Ellison told his 12-member senior executive team he expects Paramount to prevail in the antitrust case against the states. However, he also said that if Bonta balks at talks, Paramount will start packing up and moving out of the Golden State in less than two months.
"Paramount has lost the plot as it continues to lose in court," the attorney general wrote in a post on X. "It didn't work the first time -- on the eve of our July lawsuit -- and it won't work this time." Bonta has not publicly said what concessions from Paramount-WBD he would consider acceptable enough to take the lawsuit off the table. But the Democratic attorney general has said any remedies would need to be "structural" (i.e., divestments) rather than "behavioral" (e.g., imposing certain production quotas).
Oct. 1 is when Paramount will begin accruing a "ticking fee" payable to Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders of $7 million per day. The trial in the state AGs' lawsuit is scheduled to start March 2, 2027, roughly five months after that, so Paramount would be on the hook to pay around $1.2 billion to WBD shareholders by the time the trial is scheduled to conclude. (Paramount's ticking-fee payments to WBD are not due until the deal closes.) At the Aug. 5 meeting on Paramount's lot, Ellison told his 12-member senior executive team he expects Paramount to prevail in the antitrust case against the states. However, he also said that if Bonta balks at talks, Paramount will start packing up and moving out of the Golden State in less than two months.
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