BP's profit tumbled to $115M in the Q4, missing analysts' estimates, plummeted by weaker energy demand amid the COVID-19 pandemic as well as weak trading results.
On Tuesday, Panasonic, Japan's consumer electronics maker, reported a Q3 operating profit of $1.24B, topping analysts estimates, driven by rebounded sales.
On Monday, the US Treasury announced that it would borrow $274 billion in the first quarter of 2021.
Despite a decline during the US trading hours, US media blamed the Robinhood traders for a surge in silver prices.
It was revealed on Monday by the Congressional Budget Office that the US economy could recover 4.6% in 2021.
On Tuesday, Alphabet would reveal its quarterly earnings and the operating profits of Google Cloud, which were previously hidden.
The CEOs of Chevron Corp and ExxonMobil Corp held preliminary negotiations to explore the merger of the two biggest US oil producers, sources familiar with the matter said.
HSBC Holdings PLC announced that it set up new private banking operations in Thailand, the lender's second onshore expansion in Asia.
Ford Motor is set to tap into software, cloud computing and AI offered by Alphabet's Google to modernize internal operations and develop new customer services, the companies stated.
The EU antitrust enforcers claimed that a court made errors when scrapping the order for Apple to pay 13B in Ireland's back taxes, filing to overturn the verdict.
Mexico's government is set to seek more than $500M from First Majestic Silver, the Canadian miner, in owed taxes for maintaining silver prices low for a decade, two sources said.
Tesla stood to get a single-digit billion euro amount in Germany's public funding for building a battery cell manufacturing near Berlin, Business Insider stated.
At the start of US trading, the price of the iShares Silver Trust ETF jumped almost 12%, as a broad buying spree of the metal was taking place.
China's Xiaomi has filed a legal complaint against the US Treasury and Defense Departments, claiming to eliminate the smartphone maker from the US list of firms with relations to the Chinese military.
UK factory growth is slowing after a sharp drop last month, caused by the coronavirus-related disruption to worldwide shipping and new EU trade barriers.
Global semiconductor sales surged 6.5% globally in 2020, due to an on-going recovery within the last months that helped offset a steep drop-off in the first two months of spring last year.
During Monday's European trading hours, silver prices surged to the eight-year high level, which was previously tested in September.
The EU antitrust regulators is set to rule on Microsoft's $7.5B takeover of ZeniMax Media by March 5, the biggest gaming acquisition of the US tech giant to challenge Sony's PlayStation.
On Monday, Japan's Nintendo upgraded its full-year forecast for the Switch console sales from 24M units to 26.5M units, while shares rose 3.4% to 62,640 yen.
On Monday, Ryanair stated it was expecting to lose around €1B in the current financial year, the carrier's worst performance ever, but it forecast new significant growth opportunities due to the crisis.
On Monday, the Singapore-based Grab said in a statement that it upsized the debut term loan to $2 billion on strong investors demand.
On Sunday, the European Central Bank member Klaas Knot said that the global equity market rally could be fueled by increasing optimism of economic recovery.
The UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in a statement on January 30 that the UK would formally apply for membership of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership next week.
On Sunday, ten Republicans Senators offered the US President Joe Biden a compromised coronavirus relief package plan.