Anadarko Petroleum Corp's shareholders have agreed to sell the group to competitor Occidental Petroleum Corp in a buyout deal worth $38.0B, ending the contest between two oil giants.
On Thursday, the US President Donald Trump has appointed the National Counterterrorism Centre's current chief, Joseph Maguire, as the national intelligence's acting director to succeed Sue Gordon, who stepped down from her post.
Luxembourg privacy watchdog has raised concerns over the personal data usage by Amazon's Alexa voice assistant, asking the company to provide the information necessary to investigate the case.
Chipmaker Broadcom stated that it will buy security unit of antivirus software producer Symantec for $10.7B in cash to broaden its software business through deals.
Uber Technologies reported a record loss of $5.2B and revenue below Wall Street targets, as expansion in its core business of ride-hailing slowed, sending the company's shares down 6% on the report.
On Thursday, Osram's shares plunged as much as 8.4% after Allianz Global Investors, the German lamp manufacturer's largest shareholder, had rejected a $3.8B takeover bid from the private equity groups Bain and Carlyle.
Chipmaker Broadcom has entered the advanced talks to acquire Symantec's enterprise business in a potential deal valued at $10.0B, sending Symantec's shares up 14%, while those of Broadcom dropped 1%, according to the Wall Street Journal.
On Thursday, Mevlut Cavusoglu, the Turkish Foreign Minister, stated the country would prevent the delay of the safe zone pact, agreed in cooperation with the United States, adding that this agreement should not suffer the same fate as the accord on Syrian's Manbij.
Germany's drugmaker Bayer is planning to take full control over BlueRock Therapeutics, the cell therapy developer, in a deal worth $600M. as it seeks to resume to the company's drug development pipeline.
Germany's Siemens Healthineers is set to acquire US firm Corindus Vascular Robotics in a deal worth $1.1B, the largest acquisition Siemens division launch an IPO on the stock market.
On Thursday, Westpac Banking Corp has been fined $1.02M by the Australian financial watchdog for failing to provide data to the regulator on time, after the as watchdog toughened stance on government's request.
On Thursday, it was announced by three research firms that in July China has continued to import Iranian oil despite the US sanction waiver ending two months before.
HSBC has appointed Barry O'Byrne as the global commercial banking unit's interim head to succeed Noel Quinn as the bank's current interim chief executive.
Salesforce, the US cloud-based service provider, has clinched a definitive agreement to buy Israel's software developer ClickSoftware in a cash and shares deal valued at $1.35B.
On Thursday, the food giant Nestle stated it had launched Starbucks-branded coffee sale in China, including Chinese e-commerce platforms such as Alibaba's Tmall and JD.com, as it seeks to speed up its growth in the market.
The Japanese government is expected to allow some semiconductor materials' exports to South Korea, the first approval since Tokyo tightened controls over the products' exports in July, the report by Nikkei showed.
Chinese exports grew unexpectedly 3.3% year-on-year in July, while imports declined 5.6% in the same period, leaving the country with $45.06B trade surplus, customs data revealed.
FedEx confirmed that the company decided to terminate the contract with Amazon.com for ground deliveries of small packages, as the online retailer would focus on building its own delivery network.
Media company Fox reported better-than-expected quarterly results, with profit of 0.62$ per share, while revenue grew almost 5% to $2.51B, boosted by higher fees received from operators and online distributors.
On Wednesday, Germany's bond yields slide to a new record low, as a bigger-than-anticipated 50 basis points cut by the Central Bank of New Zealand and weak German data pressure the bond markets.
Wall Street's main indexes edged lower on Wednesday. The decline was attributed to the escalating trade tensions between the United States and China.
Shares of CVS Health Corp were up by 5% on Wednesday after the company reported better-than-expected Q2 results and raised its 2019 profit forecast.
President Donald Trump rejected concerns over a protracted trade war with Beijing, as China warned that the US decision to label the country a currency manipulator would hurt global financial markets.
On Wednesday, Japan's Toshiba reported a ten-fold hike to $73.49M in its Q1 operating profit, as the Japanese company sped up its cost cuts across units, but still missed analysts' forecasts.