EU antitrust regulators opened on Thursday an in-depth investigation into Ray-Ban maker EssilorLuxottica's 7.2 billion euro bid for Dutch opticians group GrandVision , saying the deal could push up prices.
BlackRock Inc cited the value and costs of shareholder proposals in a letter to regulators weighing reforms to the proxy process, taking a middle ground in a hotly contested rulemaking process.
Boeing Co said Thursday that a new software update to address an indicator light issue on the grounded 737 MAX will not impact its mid-2020 estimate for the plane's return to service.
U.S. stocks rose for a fourth straight session on Thursday on China's efforts to contain the economic fallout from the coronavirus outbreak, while investors assessed a mixed batch of corporate earnings.
Oil futures gave up early gains on Thursday, as OPEC and its partner Russia gave mixed signals about possible further output cuts to mitigate fallout from the coronavirus outbreak that has amplified concerns about weakened global oil demand.
World Trade Organization arbiters sided against the United States on Thursday over duties it had applied on Canadian paper in one of the final verdicts of the WTO's appeals body.
Young retail investors rushed into Tesla stock as it hit all time highs this week.
In a first-of-its-kind approval by U.S. regulators, a federal agency on Thursday gave permission for autonomous vehicle startup Nuro Inc over the next two years to deploy up to 5,000 low-speed electric delivery vehicles without human controls like mirrors and steering wheels.
Toyota Motor Corp will ramp up production at its new Mexican plant to 100,000 vehicles a year by 2021, marking a major step to shift production of its popular Tacoma pickup truck to Mexico from the United States, the company said on Thursday.
The U.S. International Trade Commission said on Thursday it was launching a patent investigation into certain audio players and controllers sold by Alphabet Inc's Google LLC based on a complaint by rival smart speaker maker Sonos Inc .
History shows that stocks typically snap back fairly quickly from disease outbreaks.
Canada's privacy commissioner asked a federal court to declare that Facebook had broken federal privacy law for the private sector, according to a notice of application filed on Thursday.
Flight testers discovered another flaw in the software of Boeing Co's grounded 737 MAX, the plane that suffered two fatal crashes, though the company and the top U.S. aviation regulator said on Thursday the issue most likely could be fixed without extending the target date for the plane's return to service.
China on Thursday said it would halve additional tariffs levied against 1,717 U.S. goods last year, following the signing of a Phase 1 deal that defused a bruising trade war between the world's two largest economies.
Kuwait's anti-corruption authority (NAZAHA) said on Thursday it was open to receiving any information about alleged bribes paid to secure Airbus plane orders involving Kuwaiti parties, according to the state news agency.