The cable company Charter Communications has submitted a proposal to the Department of Justice to acquire telecom assets that are sold under Sprint Corp and T-Mobile Corp combination, Reuters reported citing sources familiar with the situation.
Major Britain's employers ensured average pay increases of 2.5% to their staff in the three-month period to June, unchanged from the March quarter of 2019, data from XpertHR revealed on Thursday.
South Korea's economy turn back back to growth, as GDP rose a seasonally-adjusted 1.1% in the second quarter, though the expansion was mainly driven by government spending, indicating that the Central Bank may need to decrease rates again to stoke demand.
The Canadian government announced that it is investing $64.7M in an Ottawa-based satellite firm within an effort to provide improved broadband internet access to remote and rural communities.
Inflation in Malaysia increased 1.5% in June, compared to the same period the previous year, the Malaysian Statistics Department reports.
The Shanghai Commerce Commission in cooperation with the Shanghai Development and Reform Commission estimate that the city's digital trade will reach $40B by 2021.
One of the largest lenders in China, China Merchants Bank, earned $7.35B in the first half of the current year, a 13% increase from the same period in 2018, the Shanghai Stock Exchange report shows.
More than 3.6M people had visited the Austrian capital Vienna in the first six months of 2019, a 7.6% increase compared to the same period the prior year, the Vienna Tourist Board reports.
On Wednesday, Cruise, General Motors' self-driving unit, it would delay its car commercial deployment past the company's target of 2019, due to more vehicle testing required.
On Wednesday, Facebook confirmed it would $5.0B to settle the FTC probe into its privacy practices, adding it was halting friend data access by Sony and Microsoft, as the first step of the agreed resolution.
The US health insurer Anthem reported on Wednesday its Q2 profit surged 8% to $1.14B, or $4.36 per share, boosted by its government-backed health plans' higher sales.
On Wednesday, AT&T topped Wall Street's forecasts for its net wireless subscribers paying the monthly bill, adding 72K phone users, bigger than analysts' expectations of 27K subs, the research company FactSet reported.
On Wednesday, it was announced by Deutsche Bank that it has suffered a quarterly loss of 3.15 billion Euros.
Nissan Motor is planning to double its global job cuts by more than 10K, seeking to turn around the business, as the Japanese carmaker faces plunging profit on the back of the company's management upheaval.
On Wednesday, Boris Johnson is set to take office as the new British Prime Minister and appoint his Brexit team, as he aims to deliver the UK withdrawal from the EU bloc by October-end, with or without the deal.
The parent of T-Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, is set to hold a senior management meeting on Wednesday, expecting the US regulator to grant approval for the proposed tie-up between T-Mobile and Sprint, the business daily Handelsblatt reported.
The shared office space operator WeWork is preparing for a potential initial public offering as early as September, hosting an analyst day organised for Wall Street banks on July 31 as part of its listing preparation.
On Wednesday, crude oil prices edged higher, buoyed by rising tensions between the US and Iran. The Brent crude futures were up $0.30, while the US West Texas Intermediate was up $57.00 per barrel.
On Tuesday, the International Monetary Fund cut its global growth forecast for 2019 to 3.2% and 2020 to 3.5%, a decline of 0.1% for both years from its previous forecast.
Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga stated on Wednesday that Tokyo-Seoul relationship in a very critical state.
On Tuesday, incoming Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson vowed to take the United Kingdom out of the European Union by October 31.
On Tuesday, Quad/Graphics and LSC Communications announced about termination of their $1.4B tie-up deal, as the US Department of Justice had filed a suit to block the merger, tumbling LSC shares as much as 36% to its record low.
The auto supplier Bosch and Germany's carmaker Daimler have received an authority approval to launch valet parking using self-driving technology in the German city of Stuttgart.
Huawei Technologies reported on Tuesday its revenue surged about 30% in the year's first half after the company secured its supplies to keep the production process going, despite technology export restrictions imposed by the United States.