Shares of Ford Motor declined above 10% on Thursday, following its warning about the global semiconductor chip shortage, which would cut its Q2 vehicle production in half.
Salesforce.com Inc announced that supplier contracts will require partner companies to set carbon-reduction goals and deliver services and products on a carbon-neutral basis.
The New York Times reported that Microsoft is set to slash its charges for developers of video games for using its online store starting from August.
Unilever announced a €3B share buyback, adding that it was assured of hitting this year's sales targets, as demand from home cooks and China helped to beat Q1 sales expectations.
According to the Canalys report, Samsung shipped 76.5M smartphones in the Q1, getting a 22% market share, while Apple shipped 52.4M iPhones in the same period.
Mastercard Inc reported that its net revenue increased 4% to $4.2B from last year, surpassing estimates for $3.99B, as improved consumer spending helped offset a decline in cross-border card payments.
On Thursday, Apple and Facebook posted their stellar earnings, boosting the Wall Street main indexes during the US trading hours.
China's Baidu announced on Thursday it is set to launch paid driverless ride-hailing services in Beijing starting May 2, making it the first local company among the others to offer such a service to paying users.
On Thursday, Merck reported a 1.2% drop in its Q1 profit, tumbled by a decline in visits to medical facilities due to the growing number of COVID-19 cases in the United States in January 2021.
Lufthansa has trimmed its flight capacity outlook for 2021 amid slow travel rebound following the pandemic, sending its shares 1.15% down early on Thursday.
On Thursday, global shares gained a lift following the Federal Reserve's statement that it was not the time yet to think over rolling back the economy's emergency support, and the US President Joe Biden's proposal of $1.8 trillion stimulus package.
Airbus has confirmed its plans on Thursday to raise the output of the planemaker's most-sold jets, sending its shares up 2.8% on the news.
On Thursday, Airbus reported better-than-expected Q1 core earnings but maintained its forecasts due to uncertainty during the COVID-19 pandemic.
China's Huawei Technologies has entered talks about gaining control over small local carmaker's electric vehicle unit, in a strategic move to expand more in the EV manufacturing.
Global electric vehicle sales accelerated in the Q1, but the industry still needs government help for building charging stations and imposing bans on fossil-fuel cars to keep this momentum going, the IEA stated on Thursday.
The European Investment Bank raised €100M from a two-year digital bond sale in a sign of attention from the capital markets in using blockchain technology.
BaFin, the German financial regulator, warned that Binance, one of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges, risked being fined for offering security-tracking tokens without publishing an investor prospectus first.
General Motors announced deals with the main EV charging networks to provide its customers access to almost 60K charging points across Canada and the US.
Toyota Motor announced that it will invest $803M and add 1.4K positions at an assembly plant in Indiana to build two new larger SUVs.
Nestle is set to close a Fawdon factory in England, putting almost 600 jobs at risk, as the world's largest packed food corporation restructures its confectionery business in the UK.
Saudi Arabia was in talks to sell a stake of 1% in state oil company Saudi Aramco to an unnamed "leading global energy firm" as he expects a rebound after the pandemic.
Alphabet Inc reported a record profit of $17.9B for the quarter and a $50B share buyback, but expected an increase in usage and ad sales to slow as people continue in-person activities.
Tesla Inc announced that the market value of bitcoin it held as of March 31 was $2.48B, suggesting that it could make around $1B out of the investment.
On Wednesday, Boeing posted a smaller quarterly loss, as aircraft deliveries improved amid the air travel rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic.