- Rheinmetall hopes to recoup €30-40 billion from the German army's special rearmament budget.
- EQT offers to buy OX2 for SEK 60 per share in cash.
- Almirall confirms full-year targets despite higher first-quarter costs.
- Pfizer and AstraZeneca announce new investments of nearly $1 billion in France.
- SIG Group refinances with €450 million.
- Fire destroys one of Warsaw's largest shopping malls, owned by Mirbud.
- Fresenius Medical forecasts 2% growth in US dialysis by year-end.
- Shein accelerates preparations for its IPO in London due to obstacles in the US.
- Chevron, Hess - U.S. Senate Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Sunday called on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to cancel Chevron's proposed $53 billion acquisition of Hess.
- Amazon will announce an investment of 1.2 billion euros and Microsoft will spend four billion euros as part of the Choose France 2024 summit.
In addition, Microsoft was ordered Friday evening in Delaware to pay $242 million to IPA Technologies in a patent dispute over its Cortana virtual assistant. - Arm Holdings, a subsidiary of the SoftBank conglomerate, plans to develop chips for artificial intelligence (AI) with the aim of launching the first products in 2025, the Nikkei Asia newspaper reported on Sunday. The stock was up 2.6% before the open.
- Booking - The European Commission said on Monday it had designated Booking as a digital "gatekeeper," which will force it to comply with more rules.
- Apple - Employees at the company's Towson, Maryland, store voted to authorize a strike, the AIM union said in a press release Saturday night.
- Boeing - Late deliveries of Boeing planes are "extremely annoying" and cost Lufthansa a lot of money, but the American aircraft manufacturer should be able to solve these problems, the German airline's CEO said in an interview with the Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
- GameStop jumped 18% in pre-market trading after the first tweet in three years from Keith Gill, known as "Roaring Kitty," was published on social network X. The iconic character's online messages helped spark a trading frenzy in shares of the 2021 video game distributor.
- Survey reveals that around 1 in 8 American adults have taken GLP-1 anti-obesity drugs (Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly).
- Apple has signed with OpenAI to put AI functionality into the iPhone.
- IBM to invest €45m in France in quantum computing.
- Morgan Stanley will reinforce its Paris team by around 100 people.
- Novavax shares soar by almost 100% thanks to licensing agreement with Sanofi.
- Exxon Mobil ordered to pay $725 million for ex-employee's cancer.
- SoftBank posts Q4 fiscal profit of $2.1 bn.
- Tata Motors' results disappoint.
- Chinese developer Country Garden redeems onshore coupons during grace period.
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