Thomas Barnet

Ryanair, Europe's first airline to carry 200 million passengers in a single year

Ryanair carried 200.2 million passengers in its fiscal year to the end of March, a record for a European airline.

April 02, 2025 at 06:19 am

China extends Cognac investigation and delays sanctions

China has decided to extend its anti-dumping investigation into brandy from the European Union by three months, its Ministry of Commerce announced on Wednesday, thus postponing the date of any definitive sanctions. This decision offers a respite to European exporters; mainly French cognac producers.

April 02, 2025 at 06:14 am

Activist shareholders step up pressure on companies

Activist investors stepped up their pressure on companies worldwide in Q1 2025, launching more campaigns to demand better performance, according to new data released by Barclays. US companies concentrated the majority of demands, but the trend is global. In Europe, nine campaigns were launched.

April 02, 2025 at 03:51 am

Capgemini interested in WNS Holdings

A few months after completing its takeover of Syniti, Capgemini could make another acquisition in the US. Reuters has learned that the group is interested in WNS Holdings. However, Capgemini is not the only player in the running.

April 02, 2025 at 03:26 am

GlobalFoundries and UMC are considering a merger

April 01, 2025 at 04:30 am

Estée Lauder sued in US for its business practices in China

(Marketscreener.com with Reuters) Estée Lauder will face a lawsuit accusing it of misleading shareholders by concealing its over-reliance on sales via China's grey market, daigou, a Manhattan federal judge has ruled.

April 01, 2025 at 04:24 am

White House considers executive order to speed up deep-sea mining

(Marketscreener.com with Reuters) - The White House is considering a presidential executive order to speed up the issuance of permits for deep-sea mining, allowing companies to bypass the UN-backed review process, according to information obtained by Reuters.

April 01, 2025 at 03:59 am

Maurel & Prom collateral victim of Washington's offensive against Caracas

On Monday the French oil group Maurel et Prom announced that the US authorities had revoked its operating license in Venezuela, causing its share to slump 15% in early trading in Paris.

March 31, 2025 at 10:34 am

ING enters the Italian banking scrap?

ING is reportedly interested in Italian bank Popolare di Sondrio as part of its European expansion. According to information obtained by Reuters, the Dutch banking group recently met with the Italian bank's management. This adds yet another unknown factor to the complex meccano underway at the Italian bank.

March 31, 2025 at 06:09 am

Tokyo stockmarket corrects (-4%)

The Nikkei index plunged to its lowest level in over six months on Monday, in the wake of steep losses on Wall Street, as investors feared the imminent announcement of new tariffs by the United States. The Nikkei 225 lost over 10% from its recent peaks, signalling a technical correction.

March 31, 2025 at 04:51 am

LVMH pushes Alexandre Arnault to Moncler

Another Arnault in the luxury galaxy. French giant LVMH wants to bring Alexandre Arnault, one of CEO Bernard Arnault's sons, onto the board of Moncler, the Italian house specializing in upmarket outdoor wear.

March 27, 2025 at 11:23 am

MFE's takeover bid brings down ProSiebenSat

The ProSiebenSat saga has taken a new twist: on Thursday, the Italian MFE group, controlled by the Berlusconi family, launched a cut-price takeover bid for the shares in the German audiovisual giant that it does not yet own. The immediate result: ProSieben shares plunged 11% on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, falling to below ?6.

March 27, 2025 at 10:11 am

Brussels takes aim at Coca-Cola bottlers

Coca-Cola's bubbles are going flat. Some of its bottlers have been raided by the European Commission as part of an antitrust investigation, according to information obtained by Reuters.

March 27, 2025 at 05:12 am

Renk, the little defender who's making a name for himself

The market has shown little reaction to the results published by Renk Group, one of the big winners in the rush to buy German defense players in recent months. The stock has already surged 150% in 2025. Its prospects remain solid, even though its valuation is beginning to justify serious future performance.

March 26, 2025 at 06:25 am

UBS seeks to avoid regulatory tightening after Credit Suisse takeover

Two years after absorbing Credit Suisse in an emergency operation that rocked the Swiss financial center, UBS is now trying to win over the regulators. This aims to avoid a tightening of the rules that could put the brakes on its development. According to several related sources quoted by Reuters, in exchange the bank is proposing to limit the size of its investment division and slightly strengthen its equity capital.

March 26, 2025 at 04:24 am

Cocoa rebounds from four-month slump

The agricultural commodities markets presented a mixed picture at the start of the week, with cocoa attempting to recover from its spectacular fall. Sugar fell sharply, while coffee remained cautious. A low-activity session, shaken by persistent volatility.

March 25, 2025 at 11:29 am

Airbus takes measured steps towards its next single-aisle jet

Airbus doesn't want to rush things. That's essentially what its CEO, Guillaume Faury, said on Tuesday when talking about the European aircraft manufacturer's future single-aisle aircraft: an "evolutionary rather than revolutionary" aircraft, in his words. In other words, there will be no technological "grand soir", but concrete, perhaps spectacular, advances on the margins.

March 25, 2025 at 06:08 am

Tesla sales continue to plummet in Europe

Tesla is stumbling in Europe. In February, the Californian electric vehicle pioneer's European market share eroded a little further, the victim of a triple whammy: a catalog struggling to renew itself, increasingly fierce competition and growing hostility to Elon Musk. As a result, group sales plummeted for the second month running, despite a booming global electric vehicle market.

March 25, 2025 at 05:16 am

EToro files for US IPO

On Monday, online trading platform eToro officially filed its application for a listing on the US stock exchange. This is a decisive step for the Israeli company, which targets retail investors and intends to join the big boys on Wall Street.

March 25, 2025 at 04:54 am

Roundup: Bayer ordered to pay $2.1bn to an American suffering from cancer

It's a major legal setback for Bayer. A jury in the state of Georgia has ordered the German chemical giant to pay some $2.1bn to a plaintiff claiming that Roundup, the famous glyphosate-based herbicide, caused his cancer.

March 24, 2025 at 06:21 am

Orange interested in an international partnership with BT?

(MarketScreener with Reuters) British group BT is in talks with the telecom operators AT&T and Orange regarding potential partnerships to revitalize its international business, according to information reported on Friday by Bloomberg.

March 21, 2025 at 09:41 am