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The FOMC held the federal funds target range at 4-1/4 to 4-1/2 percent on 7 May 2025 by a unanimous vote, noting that swings in net exports had affected the data.

De Beers Group said it intends to close Lightbox, the lab-grown diamond jewellery brand it launched in 2018, after wholesale lab-grown prices fell 90% and diverged sharply from natural diamonds.

The FDA approves Teal Health's Teal Wand, the first device that lets women collect their own vaginal sample at home for HPV-based cervical cancer screening instead of a speculum exam.

OpenAI improves GPT-4o's system instructions so ChatGPT calls its image generation tool when users want an image.

Qualcomm added Christopher Young, Microsoft's executive vice president for business development, strategy and ventures and a former McAfee CEO, to its board and its HR and Compensation Committee.

At the Saudi-US Investment Forum in Riyadh, Qualcomm and Saudi Arabia's national AI company HUMAIN agreed to develop AI data centres and supply Qualcomm data-centre CPU and AI chips, with a Qualcomm chip design centre for the Kingdom.

Prime Minister Lawrence Wong officiated the groundbreaking of Terminal 5 on the Changi East site, launching the airport's largest expansion. PM Wong said T5 will be as big in land area as all of Changi's current terminals combined and will expand the airport's capacity by more than 50 per cent, serving about 50 million more passengers a year.

Tic Tac's new sugar-free mint is twice the size of the original, with two layers of contrasting flavour, in Raspberry & Lemon, Strawberry & Lime and Fresh & Mild Spearmint.

The $1.3 billion, 1,600-room Gaylord Pacific Resort & Convention Center opened as the centerpiece of the Port of San Diego and Chula Vista bayfront redevelopment, with a 4.25-acre water park on San Diego Bay. It became the largest hotel in California.

Sable began flowing oil from six wells on Platform Harmony to its Las Flores Canyon plant at about 6,000 barrels a day, the first Santa Ynez Unit production since the 2015 Refugio spill. With the onshore pipeline still barred, the oil went into storage tanks.

The FCC approved Verizon's $20 billion Frontier purchase after Verizon committed to ending its DEI practices, with Chairman Brendan Carr citing fiber builds of 1 million or more homes a year and commitments to tower crews.

Nordstrom shareholders approved the $6.25 billion take-private merger with the Nordstrom family and El Puerto de Liverpool at a virtual special meeting, with more than 99% of votes cast backing the deal and minority shareholders separately clearing the required majority.

A 5.5-mile walking and biking path on an abandoned freight line along Slauson Avenue, from near the K Line's Fairview Heights station to the A Line's Slauson station, built for $166 million.

The WNBA's 2025 expansion team made its regular-season debut before 18,064 at San Francisco's Chase Center, losing 84-67 to the Los Angeles Sparks.

Backing out from Pier 17 with 277 people aboard, the Mexican Navy training ship drifted astern into the Brooklyn Bridge, breaking the tops of all three masts; two cadets were killed and at least 19 people injured.

Qualcomm's CEO took the COMPUTEX 2025 keynote stage in Taipei a year after Snapdragon X entered the PC market, citing 85+ Snapdragon X PCs launched or in development and joined by Microsoft, ASUS, HP and Lenovo executives.

At their 19 May 2025 summit the UK and EU agreed full reciprocal access to each other's fishing waters until 30 June 2038, a 12-year extension that replaces annual access talks, as part of a reset that also eases food and shellfish exports.

Chanel reported 2024 revenues of $18.7 billion, down 4.3%, and operating profit down 30% to $4.5 billion, even as it made record capital investments of $1.76 billion in boutiques and client experience.

Nordstrom's take-private merger with the Nordstrom family and El Puerto de Liverpool became effective, ending 36 years as a New York Stock Exchange-listed company as shareholders received $24.25 a share in cash and the retailer returned to family control.