Nissan Motor's US arm stated that it plans to lay off nearly 700 contract employees at the company's Mississippi assembly plant, citing slowing sales of Titan pickup trucks and vans.
Netflix stated that it added 8.84M paid global subscribers in the Q4, while analysts anticipated 9.18M increase in net global streaming additions.
To help to eliminate the plastic waste, three main Japanese chemical firms that they are set to offer about $92M to a new international fund.
The arms exports' total value approved by Germany's government dropped 22.7% in 2018, the Ministry of Economic Affairs stated.
Euro zone's consumer prices remained flat last month, while the yearly rate of inflation dropped from 1.9% to 1.6% in the month of November, according to the revised estimate.
The US consumers this month were the most pessimistic over the economy since November 2016, the third drop in succession after expectations to the 16-year high three months earlier, due to the partial government shutdown.
Lenders in the UK anticipated demand for credit cards lending and mortgages to fall markedly in several years, adding to signs of a weaker economic growth before Brexit.
Archers Daniels Midland, the US agribusiness group, is set to buy the rest of 50% stake in the UK grain merchant Gleadell from his current partner InVivo, taking the full control of the company.
General Atlantic, the US investment company, is acquiring a minority stake of the German powercloud GmbH and is ready to back the energy software firm in its efforts to expand into other markets.
The largest lender of Saudi Arabia, National Commercial Bank, is eager to hire JPMorgan as an adviser to the merger talks with its smaller competitor Riyad Bank, sources reported.
On Thursday, the Israeli mobile games firm Playtika stated it had taken over Austria's card games company Supertreat GmbH, only a month after it had acquired Wooga GmbH, the German puzzle developer, as Playtika sought more expansion into casual games.
Bank of China is set to pay a $1.0B loan before the Q1-end, the central bank's chief announced on Thursday, as it seeks helping the country meet the repayments during next months.
Saudi Aramco hired Riyad Bank and Japan's SMBC as advisers to its Amiral petrochemical project financing that the company is planning to develop with the French oil and gas firm Total.
Jet Airway's creditors are currently weighing the restructuring plan to resolve the carrier's debt issues, SBI stated on Thursday, due to reports its shareholders are set to resolve their differences.
The number of applications for US unemployment benefits dropped unexpectedly to 213K in the week ending January 12 from the preceding 216K reading, and missing analysts' expectations for a rise to 219K.
China's economic growth is likely to slow to 6.3% in 2019 due to weakening domestic demand, as well as exports that are hit by the US sanctions, according to Reuters poll published on Thursday.
Germany's electricity and gas supplier RWE has around $1.7B per year for wind and solar power capacity expansion, as it is set to receive Innogy and E.ON's renewable units to form an 8.6 GW joint renewable capacity.
US lawmakers accelerated their pressure on ZTE and Huawei, banning the US chips sale or other electronic parts to the Chinese telecommunications firms, which are violating the US export control laws or sanctions.
On Thursday, the Australian Macquarie Group's investment unit announced it had raised $5.0B for the company's latest fund, as it seeks to make an investment into North American infrastructure.
On Thursday, representatives of the Japanese company Hitachi announced that they will freeze a $28 billion nuclear project in Wales due to Brexit.
On Thursday, it was revealed by Yonhap news agency that a top envoy of North Korea is visiting the United States for denuclearization talks.
Canada's Husky Energy is expecting to secure the majority of more than 50% of support from the MEG Energy shareholders for its hostile takeover worth C$3.3B.
The US-based WESCO International is set to acquire Osram's North American lighting business in a deal worth less than €100M, both firms announced on Wednesday.
Shares in Deutsche Bank surged on Wednesday, as Bloomberg reported that regulators would like Germany's lender to tie up with an EU competitor rather than the local rival Commerzbank.