From billion-dollar government boosts for chipmakers to a talent war brewing in the tech sector and a major automaker’s retreat from a controversial region, the R&D world saw a week of strategic shifts and high-stakes investments, pushing the R&D World Index up 2.34% for the week ending November 29, 2024. The index closed at 3,852.16…
This week in R&D: BMW & Toyota’s hydrogen EV alliance, Moderna’s R&D spending scrutinized, and Nvidia’s AI data center investment
The R&D World Index (RDWI) for the week ending September 6, 2024, closed at 3,811.42 for the 25 companies in the RDWI. The Index was down -3.99% (or -158.42 basis points). Two RDWI members gained value last week from 0.37% (Oracle) to 2.61% (Sanofi SA). Twenty-three RDWI members lost value the previous week from -0.52%…