06:41 AM EDT, 08/28/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Royal Bank of Canada ( RY ) reported fiscal Q3 adjusted earnings Wednesday of 3.26 Canadian dollars ($2.42) per diluted share, up from CA$2.83 a year earlier. Analysts surveyed by Capital IQ expected CA$2.95. Total revenue for the fiscal quarter ended July 31 was CA$14.63 billion, up from CA$12.98 billion a year earlier....

06:44 AM EDT, 08/28/2024 (MT Newswires) -- The price of bitcoin fell over 4% in the past 24 hours and was trading at around $59,933 in early action on Wednesday. US bitcoin exchange-traded funds combined saw $127 million outflows on Tuesday, according to data compiled by Farside Investors. Ether, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, also fell over 5% in...

SEOUL/WASHINGTON, Aug 28 (Reuters) - South Korea's Samsung SDI said on Wednesday it has completed an agreement with General Motors ( GM ) to build a joint electric vehicle (EV) battery factory in the U.S. state of Indiana. The two companies will invest about $3.5 billion to build a battery cell manufacturing plant with an annual production capacity of 27...

(Adds comments from Anthropic, Elon Musk in paragraphs 17-20) By Greg Bensinger SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 27 (Reuters) - California legislators are set to vote on a bill as soon as this week that would broadly regulate how artificial intelligence is developed and deployed in California even as a number of tech giants have voiced broad opposition. Here is background on...