• Danske Bank pleads guilty to fraud and agrees to let $2 billion be seized to end U.S. lawsuits.
  • Apple will allow developers to sell their apps to iPhone users without going through the company's App Store, according to Bloomberg.
  • Stadler Rail signs a €2.3 billion contract to deliver 537 sleeper and couchette cars to Kazakhstan.
  • EQT to buy German thermal insulation developer Va-Q-tec at EUR 26 per share.
  • Inditex posts €4.18 billion in nine-month Ebit.
  • Holcim sells its Russian operations.
  • BKW sells shares in wind farms to two pension funds.
  • TUI has signed an agreement to repay state aid under the German economic stabilization fund.
  • Leonardo will prepay a €500m term loan.
  • Colruyt sees its half-year operating profit fall by almost 40%.
  • Merck, Thermo Fisher, Gilead and General Electric release dividends.
  • Tesla's stock was down nearly 1 percent to $159.28 in pre-market trading after Goldman Sachs lowered its price target to $235 from $305 because of a change in the stock's valuation methodology.
  • Delta Air Lines said Wednesday it expects adjusted earnings to nearly double next year to $5-6 per share (from $3.07-$3.12 expected this year) on "strong" travel demand and lower operating costs, excluding fuel.
  • The Carlyle Group - The private equity group is having trouble raising the $22 billion it is targeting for its largest fund, the Financial Times reports.
  • Pfizer - The U.S. federal government will pay the pharmaceutical company nearly $2 billion to buy 3.7 billion more doses of Paxlovid, its COVID-19 treatment.
  • Several of the banks that lent a total of $13 billion to Elon Musk to finance the Twitter buyout are preparing to partially write down those claims in their fourth-quarter accounts, Reuters reports.

Today's main earnings reports: Inditex, Lennar, Metro... All the agenda is here.