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Wednesday newspaper round-up: BP, airlines, Coinbase

(Sharecast News) - Global fossil fuel company BP has bought 40.5% of a renewable energy hub in the Pilbara, billed as having potential to become one of the biggest suppliers of green hydrogen in the world. The company will also operate the Asian Renewable Energy Hub, which has plans to generate up to 26GW of wind and solar energy - about a third of the electricity generated in Australia today. - Guardian Airlines have been told to review their schedules by the government to avoid more flight chaos, as airports and unions said the problems behind recent cancellations would not be fixed by summer. The Department for Transport and the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said airlines should ensure flights on sale are "deliverable", and cancellations should be made "at the earliest possibility". - Guardian

The UK is poised to snub China's role in its nuclear ambitions under plans that will grant ministers the power to intervene in project decisions that pose a risk to national security. Kwasi Kwarteng, the Business Secretary, is pushing ahead with proposals that will grant the Government a "special share" when it takes a 20pc share in the planned Sizewell C station in Suffolk. - Telegraph

Coinbase Global is shedding about 1,100 jobs in preparation for what the chief executive of the cryptocurrency trading exchange warned could be a "crypto winter" as the US economy edges towards recession. The cuts, about a fifth of San Francisco-based company's workforce, come as panic selling grips the cryptocurrency market, with bitcoin, the world's most actively traded digital asset, losing 60 per cent of its value since a record high in November. - The Times

Hermann Hauser, the co-founder of Arm Holdings, has said the company listing in the UK is a matter of "technological sovereignty" for Europe. "This means you have a full set of all the critical technologies you need to run a country and economy properly. Not being technology sovereign means you become dependent on other countries," he told The Times yesterday. - The Times

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(Sharecast News) - Amazon profits soared once again in the first quarter of 2024, the company announced on Tuesday - the latest in a series of robust earnings reports for the retail giant. The company attributed the boost to artificial intelligence and advertising sales. Amazon reported overall revenue of $143.3bn in the first three months of the year - up 13% from the same period in 2023 and surpassing Wall Street expectations of $142.65bn. The e-commerce giant reported an increase of more than 200% to $15bn, with net income more than tripling to $10.4bn from $3.17bn at the same time in 2023. - Guardian
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(Sharecast News) - The Federal Communications Commission on Monday fined the largest US wireless carriers nearly $200m for illegally sharing access to customers' location information. The FCC is finalizing fines first proposed in February 2020, including $80m for T-Mobile; $12m for Sprint, which T-Mobile has since acquired; $57m for AT&T, and nearly $47m for Verizon. - Guardian
Monday newspaper round-up: Thames Water, Brexit, Babylon
(Sharecast News) - Senior Whitehall officials fear Thames Water's financial collapse could trigger a rise in government borrowing costs not seen since the chaos of the Liz Truss mini-budget, the Guardian can reveal. Such is their concern about the impact on wider borrowing costs for the UK, even beyond utilities and infrastructure, that they believe Thames should be renationalised before the general election. Officials in the Treasury and the UK's Debt Management Office fear that, unless the UK's biggest water company is renationalised as soon as possible, "prolonged uncertainty" about its fate could "damage confidence in UK plc at a sensitive time", with elections in the UK and the US later this year. - Guardian
Sunday share tips: Centrica, Lancashire Holdings
(Sharecast News) - The Sunday Times's Lucy Tobin told her readers to book their profits in Centrica and 'sell'.

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