- 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.