The French insurer AXA is planning to relocate its staff from the United Kingdom and France to Ireland amid the UK's withdrawal from the European Union.
Britain's Meniga is set to acquire the Sweden-based fintech company Wrapp, as it seek expanding its presence in the Nordic region, the firm announced on Thursday.
On Thursday, over 640 flights in Germany's airports of Stuttgart, Cologne and Dusseldorf were cancelled due to strikes launched by security staff in their push to put pressure on airports' management over wages.
The carmaker Rolls Royce urged the British PM Theresa May to avoid the hard Brexit process, adding it was expanding its warehouse capacity, establishing some stock and training suppliers for any custom change in case the UK leaves the bloc with no deal.
Jaguar Land Rover, Britain's largest carmaker, is planning "substantial" job cuts due to lowering demand in China and a drop in diesel car sales in Europe.
Europe's Airbus has lost to its US rival Boeing in their annual race for a number of the jet orders, after winning five years in a row, plunging to the planemaker's lowest share of $150B aircraft market in the last six years.
Valcambi, Switzerland's precious metals refiner, made a $16M bid to acquire its competitor Republic Metals Corporation's assets, which had filed for bankruptcy in 2018.
A petrochemical unit of the Mexican conglomerate Alfa, Alpek, agreed to acquire the PET recycling plant located in Indiana's city of Richmond, with a deal planned to be closed in the 2019 Q1, the company stated.
The Chinese Producer Price Index grew 0.9% year-on-ear in December, marking the weakest growth rate since September 2016 and slowing markedly from the prior month's 2.7% rise, the NBS said.
Haruhiko Kuroda, the Bank of Japan Governor, stated on Thursday the country's economy was anticipated to keep moderately growing, while financial system remains stable.
Fiat Chrysler is set to pay more than $700M to resolve lawsuits over claims that illegal software was used to allow 104K diesel vehicles to emit excess emissions.
South Korea's LG Chem announced plans to invest some $1.07B to expand two battery plants in China by next year,, aiming to meet increasing global demand.
The Ukrainian foreign trade increased 12% in 2018 to $104.2B from $93.04B the prior year, the State Fiscal Service reports.
Germany exported €116.3B of goods and imported €95.7B of goods in November 2018, nearly unchanged from the same period the previous year, the Federal Statistical Office reports.
The Macedonian economy is expected to expand 2.9% in 2019, an increase from 2.5% in 2018, the Macedonian Information Agency reports.
Ukraine plans to purchase long-range sniper rifles from Canada this year, the Ukrainian Ambassador to Canada Andriy Shevchenko says.
The US Chicago Fed President Charles Evans announced expectations for three interest-rate hikes in 2019, assuming that the US economy remained reasonably strong.
Ford and Volkswagen are expected to announce a deeper cooperation over the auto show in Detroit, which goes beyond partnering in the commercial vehicles area, sources familiar with the matter said.
Lennar reported weaker-than-expected home sales in the quarter and orders, confirming fears that the US property market was slowing in the face of higher rates and increasing prices, following years of strong growth.
Toyota Motor stated that it was recalling another 1.3M vehicles in the US for potentially faulty air bag inflators made by Takata within a multi-year recall campaign started in 2016.
Engie SA, the French energy group, is expecting to revive talks to acquire Petroleo Brasileiro's gas transportation unit TAG this year, its CEO stated on Wednesday.
One of LafargeHolcim's largest shareholders, Nassef Sawiris, cut his stake in the cement maker by around 1.6M shares worth over $67.5M, Handelszeitung daily reported on Wednesday.
Israel's private high-tech firms raised their record $6.47B in 2018, up 17% from the previous year, according to the ZAG law group and Israel Venture Capital Research Centre's report published on Wednesday.
On Wednesday, T-Mobile US reported it had added 1M of new phone subscribers in the Q4, beating Wall Street's expectations for nearly 858K customers.