| | Spirit Airlines Inc has delayed a shareholder meeting to vote on its proposed buyout by Frontier Group Holdings Inc to June 30, after JetBlue Airways Corp sweetened a rival offer for the budget carrier. | | | Euro zone wages are climbing after a lost decade but some pay rises may prove fleeting as employers across the bloc opt to give one-off bonuses rather than permanent increases against an uncertain outlook for growth and inflation. | | | Campbell Soup Co raised its annual core sales forecast on Wednesday, benefiting from higher prices and robust demand for its broths and sauces, sending its shares up 3% in premarket trade. | | | Shanghai officials are seeking to revive confidence among multinational firms bruised and frustrated by the city's COVID-19 lockdown by holding multiple meetings with foreign firms and easing a key border requirement for overseas workers. | | | Shares of Novavax Inc surged nearly 20% on Wednesday after advisers to the Food and Drug Administration overwhelmingly backed the use of its COVID-19 vaccine, bringing the shot a step closer to a U.S. launch. | | | U.S. stock index futures slipped on Wednesday as a rally in technology and growth stocks from the previous session eased, while higher oil prices stoked worries of a further rise in global inflation. | | | Canada's Dollarama Inc beat estimates for quarterly sales on Wednesday as surging inflation fueled demand for the discount store's groceries and household essentials. | | | A Milan court has ruled in favour of investment fund Blackstone and rejected an appeal by Italy's RCS Mediagroup against an arbitral tribunal decision on the disputed sale of the headquarters of the publishing company. | | | Japanese policymakers held fast to their usual line on yen weakness on Wednesday, stating that rapid moves were undesirable, butconfounded expectations they may escalate warnings about the sliding currency as it fell to fresh 20-year lows. | | | China has widened the gap on the United States in trade terms in large swathes of Latin America since U.S. President Joe Biden came into office early last year, data show, underscoring how Washington is being pushed onto the back foot in the region. | | | | |