The shopping centre business of IKEA is spending £170M to acquire and upgrade a mall in London in its first round of entering Britain, planning to win hearts of a nation by doing the shopping online.
Takeaway.com, the Dutch food ordering firm, announced that its shareholders had granted their approval for the proposed £5.9B acquisition of the UK peer Just Eat during the shareholder meeting held in Amsterdam.
First Abu Dhabi Bank has launched the auction process for the construction group Al Jaber's Dubai Shangri-La hotel with an initial price of $190.59M, Reuters reported.
Royal Dutch Shell is looking for a buyer for its oil refinery located in Anacortes, Washington, as Shell seeks to reduce its North American refining operations to expand factories on the US Gulf Coast.
According to data, released by the US Commerce Department, the overall tariffs, imposed by the US President Donald Trump, cost American firms $46B since February 2018.
Airbus announced on Thursday that it would increase the production of A320 single-aisle jets to seven per month by the beginning of next year.
The Japanese yen, seen as a safe-haven currency, declined to a two-week low against the US Dollar after Iran's missile strike.
On Thursday, Wall Street's major indexes hit record levels, as the Middle East nerves eased. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up by 182.22 points at 11:29 a.m. ET.
The FAO Food Price Index measuring changes for a product basket price jumped to the five-year high of an average 181.7 points, rising 2.5% from the prior month.
Canada's housing starts unexpectedly declined 3% to 197K units in December, as groundbreaking fell on multi-family homes.
On Thursday, the European shares reached its record-high after the US and Iran backed down from the further military tension escalation and investors wert back to riskier assets over firmer hopes of the US-China trade deal.
On Thursday, Volkswagen Group reported its vehicle deliveries in 2019 slightly rose from the prior year's level, upwardly revising earlier estimates that predicted the 2019 sales would stay on hold.
Apple's iPhone China sales in December rose over 18% to 3.2M units year-over-year, according to the government data published on Thursday.
On Thursday, Transport app FlixMobility reported a 37% surge in its passenger numbers for the period of 2019, as the German best-funded tech start-up seeks to become the world's largest intercity bus services provider.
On Thursday, the Governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney stated that the bank could decrease interest rates, if there remains the apparent economic weakness.
Daimler reported on Thursday it had sold 2.34M of Mercedes-Benz passenger vehicles last year for the ninth record-sales year in succession, posing to become the biggest-selling premium car company.
Uber Technologies informed its customers in California that it would provide estimates as opposed to rides' fixed prices in response to the Californian new la, which makes it more difficult to qualify Uber's drivers as contractors.
SoftBank Group Corp has entered talks over selling a majority of its stake in the Indian renewable energy venture, seeking to raise some cash after facing the setbacks to global investments, India's Economic Times reported on Thursday.
ViacomCBS Inc and Comcast Corp have resumed the content carriage deal starting Wednesday, which would let Comcast continue retransmission of about 23 CBS-held television channels.
McDonald's stated that it is set to expand the trial in Canada of Beyond Meat-made vegan burgers, testing the viability of a wider rollout.
Deere & Co announced that it will diminish costs and increase investments in agriculture technology and services business aiming to become more profitable.
The World Bank cut its global expansion forecasts slightly for 2019-2020 amid a slower-than-anticipated recovery in investment and trade despite cooler US-China trade tensions.
Shares of Walgreens Boots Alliance fell by 7% on Wednesday after the pharmacy chain missed first-quarter earnings expectations.
On Wednesday, the Treasury Department announced that the United States has imposed sanctions on the Vice President of South Sudan.