LONDON, March 19 (Reuters) - Swiss drugmaker Novartis is ending its use of diverse panels for all of its hiring in the United States, the company told Reuters on Wednesday, citing the changing legal and policy landscape surrounding diversity in the U.S. ...

08:37 AM EDT, 03/19/2025 (MT Newswires) -- The broad market exchange-traded fund SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust ( SPY ) was up 0.3% and the actively traded Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQ) was 0.4% higher in Wednesday's premarket activity as investors awaited the Federal Reserve's policy rate decision. US stock futures also edged higher, with S&P 500 Index futures up 0.3%,...

ZURICH, March 19 (Reuters) - Siemens is seeing some hesitancy among customers in the United States due to political uncertainties, Chief Financial Officer Ralf Thomas said on Wednesday, although he does not expect the situation to last. Whenever there is uncertainty on the political side, that translates into a kind of paralysis for decisions makers, Thomas told a Bank of...

Shares of Nebius Group N.V. ( NBIS ) are trading higher in the premarket session on Wednesday following major announcements at GTC 2025. The AI infrastructure company revealed it will be an early adopter cloud provider for NVIDIA’s cutting-edge Blackwell Ultra platform, offering customers access to NVIDIA GB300 NVL72-powered instances. By the end of 2025, Nebius ( NBIS ) plans...