• Eiffage reports a 10.4% rise in first-half sales, after a less buoyant second quarter.
  • Pernod Ricard reports strong annual results, but acknowledges a sluggish first quarter in China and the United States. At the same time, the Group launched structural changes to speed up decision-making.
  • Kering is close to a $7 billion takeover of US celebrity agency CAA.
  • L'Oréal completes purchase of Australian beauty brand Aesop for $2.5 bn.
  • Eramet announces the gradual resumption of its activities in Gabon.
  • UBS published strong quarterly results and will finally fully integrate Credit Suisse's Swiss bank.
  • Salesforce better-than-expected second-quarter earnings and raised its sales forecast for the current quarter.
  • Microsoft will dissociate its Teams messaging service from its Office suite and facilitate the integration of competing products into its software, the group said on Thursday, anxious to avoid a possible fine from the European Commission.
  • Goldman Sachs - TxB, the transaction banking arm of the US investment bank, has decided not to work with new high-risk clients in the fintech sector following a warning from the Fed to do so, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.
  • Tesla is under federal investigation in the US over the claimed range performance of its electric vehicles.
  • Chewy - Sales forecast for the current quarter are below Wall Street expectations.
  • Baidu launched its conversational robot in China, the answer to ChatGPT.
  • Glencore investors claim damages for misleading prospectus statements.
  • Amazon is threatened with legal action by the FDA for allegedly selling "unapproved" drugs.
  • IBM receives approval for its federal human resources shared services solution.
  • The European regulator approves a new Pfizer-adapted vaccine for Covid-19.
  • Apple is testing the use of 3D printers to manufacture parts for some of its products.
  • Cadence Design Systems collaborates with Arm on the Neoverse V2 platform.
  • Iren appoints Paolo Emilio Signorini as new CEO and Managing Director.
  • The FDA reports manufacturing process control violations at Reckitt Benckiser baby formula plants.
  • Pharmanutra obtains "Novel Food" classification in the UK for Lipocet.

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