Earnings season: Amazon.com, Alphabet, Alibaba, Pfizer, Exxon Mobil, Fast Retailing, BP Plc, Dentsu, Coloplast, Telenor, SSE, Novozymes and Electrolux are among companies reporting their results today.
- BP Plc: Q4 earnings are more modest than expected.
- Panasonic: management has raised its forecast for the current year.
- Shiseido: Japanese cosmetics group jumps in session after raising its full-year earnings forecast.
- Tele2: Quarterly results exceeded expectations and mid-term financial targets were confirmed this morning.
- Atos and DXC Technology have ceased discussions on a merger after the rejection of an informal offer from the French group.
- Pfizer and BioNTech will be able to produce 2 billion doses this year.
- Ford will equip its connected vehicles with Google's Android system.
- Apple is issuing $14 billion in bonds in six tranches.
- Siemens Energy will cut 7,800 jobs worldwide by 2025.
- Xerox is reorganizing into three main branches: software, financing and innovation.
- Robinhood raises an additional $2.4 billion for its margin calls.
- Roche obtained CE marking for its new rapid nasal antigen test for Covid-19.
- Sulzer finalized the acquisition of Nordic Water.
- Databricks, an AI specialist, is valued at $28bn after raising $1bn from Microsoft, Google and com, among others.
- Tilray receives the first marketing authorization to supply cannabis products for medical use in Portugal.
- SGS acquires the French company Autoscope/CTOK.
- Centrica Business Solutions signs a framework agreement with Alfen for energy storage solutions.