07:55 AM EST, 01/31/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Poet Technologies ( POET ) said Friday it has signed a deal with a global capital markets firm to develop an optical engine for use in an automated high-frequency securities trading operation. Financial terms and the name of the client were not disclosed. The project is meant to increase the speed and decrease...

(Updates Jan 12 story with Washington crash) By Tim Hepher Jan 31 (Reuters) - Investigators have recovered the so-called black boxes from an American Airlines Bombardier CRJ-700 regional jet, which collided with a U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River on Wednesday, killing 67 people. Lead investigator Brice Banning said on Thursday that the helicopter...

07:53 AM EST, 01/31/2025 (MT Newswires) -- POET Technologies ( POET ) rose 2% in U.S. pre-market on Friday after the company agreed to develop a novel optical engine for use in a high-frequency securities trading operation for a global capital markets firm. U.S.-listed shares of the company were last seen up US$0.10 at US$4.760 in pre-market trading. The multi-phase...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Germany's Commerzbank said on Friday that it posted a 20% increase in net profit in 2024, announcing earnings nearly two weeks ahead of schedule as it fends off interest in a tie-up from Italy's UniCredit. Net profit rose to 2.68 billion euros ($2.78 billion) in the year, up from 2.22 billion euros in 2023, the bank said. That...