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Having worked in the British, French and Swiss financial press, Romain is able to report on local and international issues, as comfortable in French as in the language of Shakespeare, Romain Fournier leads the editorial team at Marketscreener. Fine connoisseur of the English-speaking markets, Romain delivers an editorial every day on US and UK markets.
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Global markets live: Microsoft, Apple, Tesla...
More than 160 companies worth $10bn or more on the stock market are releasing their quarterly results today, including those of Apple and Facebook. Saudi Arabia could sell 1% of Aramco to a foreign oil group, while the European Union is expected to launch an anti-trust action against Apple.
Main earnings reports today. Apple, Facebook, Qualcomm, Shopify, The Boeing Company, Sony, Sanofi, GlaxoSmithKline, Dassault Systèmes, Banco Santander, Reckitt Benckiser, KONE, Delivery Hero, CRH, Assa Abloy , Carlsberg , Deutsche Bank...
- Advanced Micro Devices: results are in line with the start of the year, allowing the stock to gain 3.6% after the session.
- Alphabet: Q1 results are well received, with the stock gaining more than 4% in the after-hours. Google's parent company also announced a share buyback plan.
- Amgen: the US biotech loses more than 3% after the session on the announcement of figures that disappointed investors.
- Banco Santander: clearly spared from the dubious market bets of some of its peers, the Spanish bank posted a net profit of €1.6bn in Q1, up sharply and above expectations.
- Carlsberg: the group is tightening up its 2021 earnings guidance range.
- Delivery Hero: 2021 revenue expected to be between €6.1bn and €6.6bn.
- Deutsche Bank: the bank raises its 2021 guidance after the release of its Q1 results.
- General Electric: Q1 results weighed down by the aerospace situation. The stock did not react after the session to the announcement of the figures.
- Microsoft: the stock is down 2.7% after the session and the publication of results and outlook rather in line with expectations.
- Reckitt Benckiser: Q1 results beat expectations.
- Sony: fiscal Q4 revenues doubled. The group will buy back 2% of its capital.
- Starbucks: mixed reception for Q1 results, with the stock losing 1.7% in after-hours trading.
- Texas Instruments: Q1 results disappoint the market a bit, sending the stock down 2.6% after the session.
- Visa: no surprise on the performance of the beginning of the year, which allows the stock to gain 1% after the close.
- WPP: as for Publicis, organic growth accelerated against all expectations in Q1.
- The European Union is expected to launch an anti-trust action against Apple this week.
- The opening of Tesla 's gigantic factory in Germany has been delayed due to an amendment to the building permit, probably until October.
- Syngenta is expected to return to the stock market this year, according to Handelsblatt.
- Samsung heirs to pay $11bn and make donations to extinguish tax case against them.
- Barry Callebaut's largest shareholder, Jacobs Holding, is selling a 10% stake at CHF 1,990 a share, down to 30.1%.
- Humana will buy the 60% of Kindred at Home that it does not own, based on an enterprise value of $8.1 billion.
- Sika acquires the glue business of Japanese Yokohama Rubber.
- Saudi Arabia announces its intention to sell a 1% stake in Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Aramco ) to a foreign energy investor.
- Japan's Nexon spends $100 million to buy bitcoin.
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