• In Europe, new car registrations rose by 17% in November over one year.
  • Germany approves €10 billion F-35 purchase from Lockheed Martin.
  • Disgruntled HSBC shareholders launch a new campaign for a split.
  • Elon Musk sells 22 million Tesla shares worth $3.6 billion.
  • Microsoft will implement a "data frontier" for EU customers from January 1.
  • Implenia starts excavation work at the entrance to the Lyon-Turin tunnel on the French side.
  • Carlsberg buys Canadian brewery Waterloo Brewing for $106 million.
  • Blackstone is considering buying Ayumi Pharma for $1 billion, according to Bloomberg
  • British American Tobacco will permanently cease operations at its Swiss plant in 2023.
  • Cofinimmo will build an extension to an operating nursing home in Finland.
  • Homebuilder Lennar's quarterly profit rises 11%.
  • Serco adjusts its forecast.
  • Ford Motor and Contemporary Amperex Technology plan to build a battery plant in Michigan or Virginia.
  • Valora gets the green light to operate more Oel-Pool gas station stores.
  • Chubb, Albemarle and Burberry are detaching coupons.
  • Warner Bros Discovery raised its forecast for costs related to the abandonment of certain content projects by $1 billion, estimating that they could now represent a charge of up to $3.5 billion.
  • A group of five banks, including JPMorgan and Citi, were among the investors in the round that raised $24 million for risk control specialist Acin.
  • GE Healthcare and Siemens Healthineers are considering a buyout of two spun-off businesses of medical equipment maker Medtronic, Bloomberg reports.
  • Novavax fell 11% in after-hours trading as the company sought to raise $125 million via convertible bonds due in 2027.
  • The Ebola virus vaccines developed by Johnson & Johnson and Merck & Co produce antibodies and appear to be safe for children and adults, according to data from two studies released Wednesday.

Main earnings reports today: Adobe, Jabil... The whole agenda is here.