Costco Wholesale reported better-than-expected Q4 revenue and profit results, as pandemic prompted customers to buy more appliances, sporting or gardening goods.
Samsung Electronics has selected Verizon Communications as its first US customer for its 5G gear to raise indoor coverage, Reuters reported.
Target Corp is planning to double the number of its employees for contactless services, as well as hire more seasonal staff for its distribution centres during the upcoming holiday season amid higher demand for online shopping.
ConocoPhillips, the US oil producer, sees global demand for oil returning to 100M barrels per day, adding it also expects oil to continue growing from there, Reuters reported citing the firm's senior executive.
On Thursday, AMC Entertainment Holdings announced it would sell up to 15M of its shares, seeking to attract fresh funding after the company was hit by the coronavirus pandemic, sending its shares down over 4%.
Sweden's Volvo Cars is expecting its year-over-year sales to be flat in the current year's second half, in line with expectations despite the growing number of the COVID-19 cases across Europe.
India's content-sharing platform ShareChat raised $40M from investors, such as Lightspeed Ventures and Twitter, seeking to increase usage of its short-video app.
Spotify Technology signed the deal with Chernin Entertainment to adapt the streaming firm's podcast shows for television and films and sell them to other outlets.
Harley-Davidson stated that it would discontinue manufacturing operations and sales in India, abandoning the world's largest motorcycle market.
Samsung Electronics signed up Verizon as the first customer in the US for the company's 5G products to enlarge indoor coverage.
The Nasdaq Composite was up by 0.59% to 10,647.94 in early trading on Thursday, as investors and traders returned to tech-related shares.
Crude oil prices remained stable on Thursday, Brent crude futures were up by 0.2%, to $41.87 a barrel at 11:00 GMT, while the US WTI crude rose by 0.2%, to $40.01 per barrel.
On Thursday, the office-sharing group WeWork stated it would sell control of the Chinese arm to Trustbridge Partners, the private equity firm and investor, as WeWork aimed to step back from the competitive market.
On Thursday, BlackBerry reported its second-quarter revenue beat Wall Street expectations, surging nearly 6% on higher demand for Spark, its security software suite.
On Thursday, Wells Fargo has inked a data exchange contract with Envestnet Yodlee, the data aggregator, in a deal that will allow the bank's customers sharing their account information with other fintech apps linked to Envestnet Yodlee.
On Thursday, the electric car charging network ChargePoint announced its plans to go public through a merger with Switchback Energy Acquisition, taking the company's valuation to $2.4B.
ByteDance is seeking the Chinese tech export licence, aiming to cancel the Oracle-Walmart deal with intention to prevent the US government from banning TikTok, its video-streaming app.
On Thursday, the Oil Minister of Iraq Ihsan Abdul Jabbar stated that there is no agreement with OPEC+ to increase Iraq's oil exports.
China's state-backed investors are likely to take Brilliance, BMW's joint-venture partner in China, private, sending Brilliance's shares up 12.3% to HK$7.86 on the news.
On Thursday, the online payments company Adyen announced that its co-founder Arnout Schuijff was set to step down from its management board on January 1.
The US office-sharing company WeWork is set to sell control of the firm's China unit to one of its investors - Trustbridge Partner.
JPMorgan Chase is set to pay about $1B to resolve market manipulation investigations by the US authorities into its metals futures and Treasury securities' trading.
United Wholesale Mortgage announced plans to go public by merging with SPAC Gores Holdings in a deal, which will value the wholesale lender at $16.1B.
The head of the US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention Robert Redfield stated on Wednesday that US citizens would be vaccinated against the coronavirus by July.