• Merck 's covid pill receives FDA panel support.
  • Volkswagen's CEO, under fire related to strategy, is positive about the company's developments.
  • NextEra Energy sells its remaining 50% stake in renewable assets to a Canadian pension fund.
  • Volkswagen is in talks for software cooperations with Continental and Robert Bosch.
  • Salesforce appoints Bret Taylor as co-CEO with Marc Benioff. The stock falls 6% after the publication of mixed results.
  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise loses 2% after disappointing quarterly results. Husqvarna raises its sales and profitability targets.
  • Roche completed the takeover of its German partner TIB Molbiol, announced last September.
  • CVC drops its bid for Intertrust. Clariant raises its EMEA prices by 25-35%.
  • Sarah Youngwood will be the new CFO of UBS Group in May 2022.
  • Vitrolife completes the purchase of Spanish company Igenomix from EQT.
  • Proximus confirms that it has entered into preliminary discussions related to a possible strategic transaction involving its subsidiary TeleSign, possibly via a SPAC.
  • Sabrina Soussan leaves Dormakaba after eight months at the helm, for Suez.
  • Pfizer, BioNTech - The vaccination campaign against COVID-19 in children aged 5 to 11, with the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, will begin in the European Union on December 13, a week ahead of schedule, German Health Minister Jens Spahn said Wednesday.
  • Mondelez - Dirk Van de Put, the food company's CEO, told Reuters that the sugar-free version of its Oreo cookies, launched in China last August, had received a "somewhat disappointing" response despite the current trend for so-called "healthy" products.
  • Amazon - New York Attorney General Letitia James asked a state judge on Tuesday to appoint an expert to oversee employee safety at an Amazon logistics center in New York, citing an easing by the retailer of measures against COVID-19 that were already deemed "inadequate.
  • Alphabet subsidiary Google announced Wednesday that it would ban all political advertising on its platform in the Philippines between Feb. 8 and May 9, 2022, as part of the presidential election to name a successor to Rodrigo Duterte.
  • Qualcomm unveiled on Tuesday a new high-end chip called Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 that will equip Android-based smartphones and will, according to the company, display better graphics and take sharper photos than competing chips.
  • Nio - The Chinese manufacturer of electric vehicles gained 4% in pre-market trading on the strength of its vehicle deliveries, which rose 105.6% year-on-year in November to 10,878 units.

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