Corporate results:
  • ABN Amro posts higher second-quarter net profit.
  • Ahold Delhaize reports lower half-year results, but revenues up and targets are confirmed.
  • Coca-Cola Hellenic raises its forecasts.
  • E.ON raises its outlook for 2023.
  • Flutter Entertainment returns to profit in first half and increases sales.
  • Honda reports a 78% increase in operating profit for the first fiscal quarter.
  • Qiagen lowers its guidance for fiscal 2023.
  • Super Micro Computer loses 9.5% after its quarterly results.
  • TUI turns a profit in fiscal Q3.
  • Vestas reduces its first-half loss, but it is higher than expected.
  • Take-Two expects lower-than-expected net sales for the second quarter, but has confirmed its full-year forecast and remains confident of seeing a "significant inflection point" in fiscal 2025.
  • Rivian raised its annual production forecast, and its CEO declared that the Group had sufficient liquidity to last until 2025. 
  • Rocket Lab was up 7% in pre-market trading as the space company reported better-than-expected quarterly sales of $62.05 million.
In other news:
  • Reinold Geiger, 73% owner of L'Occitane, plans to buy back the remaining shares at HKD 35 per share, according to Bloomberg (37% premium on the previous day's closing price).
  • Google and Universal Music in talks over AI deepfakes deal, FT reports.
  • Lyft said on Tuesday that it would redouble its efforts to offer competitive prices in order to catch up with rival Uber.
  • Boeing has delivered 309 aircraft so far this year and received 467 net orders.
  • WeWork expressed "substantial" doubts on Tuesday about its ability to continue as a going concern and announced the departure of three members of its board of directors, sending its shares down 16.8% in pre-market trading.
  • Amazon plans to invest in Arm's IPO, along with a host of others.
  • Google files an emergency motion to block the dismissal of an antitrust trial in Texas.
  • KKR and Italy discuss (again!) the terms of a state-backed bid for Telecom Italia's landline network.
  • Li Auto aims to overtake BMW, Mercedes and Audi (Volkswagen) in China by 2024.
  • Six British water companies, including Severn Trent, are sued for over £800 million.
  • Equinor wins Norwegian approval for Snohvit and Hammerfest LNG projects.
  • ESPN (Walt Disney) signs a $2 billion agreement with Penn to launch a sports betting business.
  • Virtual reality startup Immersed to go public via SPAC Maquia Capital Acquisition Corp.
Today's main earnings reports: Walt Disney, Sony, Honda, Flutter, Ahold Delhaize, Generali, Vestas, Sampo... All the agenda is here.