Low-budget horror movies directed by YouTube creators are proving more popular than <em>Star Wars</em>

Local investors are driving the premium on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s US-listed shares to a two-year low as they pile into the chipmaker’s stock in Taipei on bets the AI boom has further to run.

Dell Technologies Inc. introduced a redesigned XPS 13 laptop, positioning the device as a direct answer to Apple Inc.’s popular MacBook Neo, which stunned the budget PC market upon its debut in March with its features and price.

Chipmakers are by far the hottest stocks in the market, but their recent surge is lending urgency to the debate over whether investors are buying into an artificial-intelligence bubble that could be due to burst. Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership Research Fellow Gautam Mukunda joined David Gura and Christina Ruffini on Bloomberg This Weekend to discuss. (Source: Bloomberg)

A national school exam board in India said it has been monitoring and has contained vulnerabilities in its online grading portal for one of the country’s most important school-leaving exams that were first flagged by a teenage cybersecurity researcher.

Oil climbed and the dollar strengthened as tensions remained elevated in the Middle East, with negotiations over a permanent US-Iran ceasefire showing little sign of a breakthrough.

Chinese consumers are showing signs of a renewed appetite for high-end beauty and fashion products, a rare bright spot for global luxury brands after years of weak demand and margin-eroding discounts in their most important growth market.

Oil rose from a six-week low amid uncertainty over the outlook for a peace deal to end the war in Iran.

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. will acquire Taylor Morrison Home Corp. in an all-cash deal worth about $6.8 billion, the two companies announced on Sunday.

Brazil’s state-controlled oil giant Petroleo Brasileiro SA is reducing domestic diesel prices starting Monday as part of a government subsidy program to shield consumers from the war in the Middle East.