Nvidia Surges, Goldman Woes & Billion Dollar Railway Bet

Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: Nvidia surged in late trading after delivering another eye-popping sales forecast, adding fresh momentum to a stock rally that already made it the world's most valuable chipmaker. Minutes from the Federal Reserve's latest gathering show most officials remained more worried about the risk of cutting interest rates too soon than keeping them high for too long and damaging the economy. Beth Hammack had been billed as one of the most likely candidates to break into Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s all-male top tier. Now, she's calling it quits after 30 years at the Wall Street giant. A vote on the Israel-Hamas war triggered chaos in the UK's House of Commons with the Scottish National Party walking out in protest and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservatives also refusing to cast their ballots. Why a $2.3 billion rail project spanning three African countries is critical to boosting adoption of electric vehicles. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.