Finnish telecom gear group Nokia reported on Friday preliminary second-quarter sales of 5.7 billion euros ($6.4 billion) and a comparable operating profit margin of 11%, and lowered its full-year outlook.
Several workers at Tesla's Shanghai plant, its biggest manufacturing hub globally by output, said they had been awarded a large increase in their latest quarterly performance bonuses.
Investors piled into bonds and stocks while shedding cash in the week to Wednesday, according to a report on Friday from Bank of America (BofA) Global Research.
JPMorgan Chase posted a 67% jump in profit for the second quarter on Friday as it earned more from borrowers' interest payments and benefited from the purchase of First Republic Bank.
Wells Fargo's profit surged 57% in the second quarter as it earned more from customer interest payments and raised its annual forecast for net interest income (NII), sending shares up nearly 4% in premarket trading.
Volkswagen said on Friday its Group deliveries increased 12.8% year-on-year from January to June, registering growth in every region except China, which saw a 1.2% drop in total deliveries and a 1.6% drop in battery-electric cars.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Thursday asked an appeals court to temporarily stop Microsoft's $69 billion acquisition of video game maker Activision Blizzard , hours after a federal judge rejected a similar request.
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson and former White House adviser Neil Patel are looking to raise funds to start a new media company that could potentially be anchored on Twitter, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
Japan's Mazda Motor needs to overhaul its strategy in China, the world's biggest auto market, where it faces increasingly tough competition from domestic players, the automaker's chief executive said on Friday.
Creative Artists Agency (CAA), one of Hollywood's biggest talent agencies, is in advanced talks to sell a majority stake to French billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault and could fetch a valuation of over $7 billion, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday.
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