Alphabet, Tesla, BYD, Intel and tight brothers

According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), the Google Parent Alphabet (Googl, Googl, Goog) is reported in advanced talks for the purchase of Cybersecurity Startup WIZ for $ 30 billion.

Alphabet (Googl, Googs) had reportedly offered USD 23 billion last year to acquire WIZ, although these discussions were written off by the Israeli cyber security company, some of them due to official concerns.

In his report on Monday, WSJ said that this would be the largest offer from Google (Googl, Goog) of all time and could soon come together.

WIZ offers cloud-based security solutions with the help of artificial intelligence (AI). A deal would build on the Google Cloud business of Alphabet (Goog, Goog), which achieved sales of USD 11.9 billion (9.2 billion GBP) in the fourth quarter.

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A spokesman for Alphabet (Googl, Googs) had not answered a comment at the time of writing when asked by Yahoo Finance UK.

The shares were hardly changed on Tuesday on Tuesday, with the stock declining by 13%. The share has dropped in the fourth quarter of the last month since its profit was published, since the cloud turnover missed estimates of USD $ 12.1 billion.

The company also dramatically expanded its capital expenditure for the coming year of $ 57.9 billion to $ 75 billion. Investors were increasingly careful about the expenses of the large technology companies since the Chinese startup Deepseek published its more cost -effective AI model, which shook the sector in January.

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The shares at the electric vehicle company Tesla (TSLA) fell 4.8% on Monday, with the share declining by 41% since the beginning of the year.

The shares halved for the closing price of $ 238 on Monday on Monday since he achieved an all-time high closing course of $ 479.86 in December.

The CEO of Tesla (TSLA), Elon Musk, confronted his participation in the Trump administration with increasing decline in the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (Doge). His inexpensive initiative in the federal authorities who have seen mass layoffs has triggered protests in Tesla dealers in the USA.

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In the meantime, the data published last month in Tesla (TSLA) in Europe have shown falling sales where Musk also made top -class inventions in politics.

The Financial Times reported on Tuesday that empty sellers had made a profit of $ 16 billion from bets against Tesla (TSLA) parts.

The Tesla shares declined by almost 1% in the market on Monday, which as a Chinese EV manufacturer BYD (002594.SZ) presented a new ultra-fast five-minute charging system.

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The BYD's shares (002594.SZ) rose on Tuesday after the car manufacturer said that EVS would enable his new platform to calculate as quickly as it takes to refill with petrol.

Byd's so-called “Super-E-platform” is able to achieve a top speed of 1,000 kilowatts (KW), which would enable cars to drive 400 kilometers with an indictment of 400 kilometers.

The 1000 kW charging speed would be twice as fast as the 500 kW speed, which is offered by Tesla's latest version of its superchargers.

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“In order to fully solve our user's fear of hanging, we have pursued a goal of delivering the loading time of electric vehicles as short as the upset time of gasoline vehicles,” said BYD founder Wang Chuanfu reported on Monday at a live stream event.

BYD said it would build more than 4,000 ultra -fast loading units across China for use with a new platform.

The shares of Chipmaker Intel rose by almost 7%on Monday before Lip-Bu Tan took on the role of CEO on Tuesday.

The stock rose last week after it became known that the veteran of the chip industry Tan, who previously served in the Intel Board, took over the helm. Tan takes over the interim co-coos David Zinsner and Michelle Johnston Holthhaus. The duo succeeded the former CEO Pat Gelsinger, which was displaced by the Intel board at the end of 2024.

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On Monday, Reuters reported that Tan had taken important changes to the Chip Manufacturing methods from Intel and his AI strategy in order to turn to the fighting technologic.

In a town hall last week, Tan reports reported to the employees that Intel had to make some “difficult decisions”.

Last year Intel recorded an annual loss of $ 19 billion, which, according to Reuters, marked the first since 1986.

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At the London market, the shares in Close Brothers (CBG.L) believed almost 21%on Tuesday morning after the financial services company had lost a loss after the occurrence of funds for the motor financing scandal.

In the first half of 2025, the company reported a loss of 103 million GBP ($ 133 million), which was released on Tuesday. Close Brothers (CBG.L), one of the largest car loans in Great Britain, had put £ 165 million on the car finance commission for potential payments in connection with the scandal.

The scandal about how consumers were sold has opened the car loans the possibility that the lenders could ultimately pay for compensation tens of billions.

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Russform, investment director at AJ Bell (AJB.L), said: “Close Brothers (CBG.L) has been working in the engine incidental business for more than 30 years, but the false sales scandal has now been set up in the almost 150-year institution that is being set up on the day that it has ever been involved.

“Hopes that the government could occur to restrict the pain for the conclusions were a bit frustrated and the next milestone is a date of the Supreme Court to hear appeals to the first decisions of the Court of Appeal,” he added.

“It looks like a result is coming in summer and the shareholders will observe nervously to find out that the scope of authorities is likely to face Close Brothers (CBG.L).”

Other companies in the news on Tuesday, March 18,:

Netflix (NFLX)

Travis Perkins (TPK.L)

Trustpilot Group (Trst.L)

Tencent Music (TME)

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