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             First Republic barely hangs on
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             First Republic is limping into the weekend, days after reporting disastrous first-quarter results. The bank is still working on a lifeline, with some involved saying it is touch and go whether the federal government will assist in some way, DealBook hears.
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             The precariousness of First Republic is a reminder that the banking crisis that erupted last month isn’t over yet and that a disorderly collapse of the lender could unleash yet more chaos in financial markets.
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             Shares in First Republic are up nearly 10 percent in premarket trading, after having jumped yesterday, presumably in hopes that a rescue will emerge. But the bank’s stock is still at about $6, a far cry from the $150 it traded at a year ago.
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             A fundamental question is still hovering: Will the government force big banks into a rescue deal — which could involve those firms buying First Republic’s loans above market prices but below book value — or seize the troubled lender outright?
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             Which way the government will go remains uncertain. While officials in Washington are
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             There’s the matter of the bank’s uninsured deposits, including the $30 billion that big banks had already injected as part of an earlier lifeline. (Remember that the F.D.I.C. insures deposits only up to $250,000 each, and many of First Republic’s deposits are well above that.)
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             Tech earnings season is halfway over — Apple reports next week — but it’s already possible to draw some conclusions about the state of the industry. The biggest: Big Tech is holding steady or growing, while smaller players are struggling.
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             Andy Jassy, its C.E.O., said that large-language models and generative A.I. would help transform its cloud business and “virtually every customer experience that exists, and many that don’t exist.” That follows efforts this week by Satya Nadella of Microsoft and Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, Facebook’s parent company, to give investors bullish visions of A.I.’s promise for their businesses.
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             The Nasdaq 100, a collection of big-cap tech companies, rallied again yesterday and is up more than 20 percent in 2023. So far this year, shares in Meta have nearly doubled in price, while those in Amazon and Apple are up about 30 percent.
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             Many of these businesses had been hurt by a slowing economy and rising interest rates, but their “year of efficiency” focus on cost-cutting, including via layoffs,
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               , sending its stock down more than 18 percent in premarket trading. There’s a bright side for the parent company of Snapchat: User numbers grew and it lost less money than expected.
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                Lyft
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                Dropbox
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               and the audio chat start-up Clubhouse all announced layoffs.
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               . Like Samsung, the chip maker has seen global demand for semiconductors evaporate.
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             Carbon tech captures Washington
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             New rules for curtailing power plant emissions, expected from the Environmental Protection Agency next month, could help pave the way for one of the buzziest areas of clean-tech investing: carbon capture.
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             Despite its
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              many critics
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             , carbon capture (the practice of sucking carbon dioxide out of the air) has drawn a flock of investors, including
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              Bill Gates
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              Elon Musk
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             . It has also become a
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              centerpiece
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             for Big Oil’s decarbonization strategy — which has drawn plenty of skeptics — while uniting lawmakers on the right and left who see it as an attractive policy choice.
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              Big Energy is bullish on carbon capture.
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             The oil and gas industry spent more than
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              $124 million on federal lobbying
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             in 2022, according to the watchdog group OpenSecrets, with a big area of focus being subsidies for carbon capture. And though none of the nation’s coal- and gas-fired power plants
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              currently use the technology in a significant way
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             , the five biggest spenders have been spotlighting their carbon capture investments recently:
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               Occidental Petroleum is building out
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                a $1 billion direct air capture and carbon storage project
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               in Texas.
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               In November, Exxon Mobil partnered with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries on carbon capture for industrial customers.
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