North America:

  • Tesla is expanding into the Saudi Arabian market, launching on April 10, while facing a decline in European sales and Canada freezing rebate payments due to tariffs.
  • Phillips 66 has filed a preliminary proxy statement for its 2025 annual meeting, proposing new board members in response to a lawsuit from Elliott Investment Management.
  • AT&T is in discussions to purchase Lumen Technologies' consumer fiber operations for over $5.5 billion.
  • GameStop has announced incorporating Bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset, leading to a surge in its share price.
  • Dollar Tree has agreed to sell its Family Dollar division for approximately $1 billion.
  • Apple will launch the iPhone 16 series in Indonesia on April 11 and hold its annual WWDC online from June 9-13, 2025.
  • ADM has reduced jobs in its grain trading division and decreased its CEO's compensation for 2024 due to accounting issues.
  • OpenAI is constructing its first data center.
  • Activision Blizzard employees have voted to unionize with the Communications Workers of America (CWA).
  • Jolly has secured $16.5M in Series A funding.
  • Windrose aims to raise $300 million.

Europe

  • TotalEnergies' CEO suggests Europe might need Russian gas and announces a €160 million investment in battery storage projects in Germany.
  • Prysmian targets an adjusted EBITDA of €2.95-3.15 billion by 2028 and has acquired Channell Commercial Corporation for up to $1.15 billion.
  • CD Projekt shares dropped nearly 13% after delaying 'The Witcher IV' release to post-2026.
  • Aroundtown's stock price has recovered after robust financial results, despite expecting a decline in 2025 earnings.
  • Terna reported a 20% increase in 2024 net income and plans to increase investments to 17.7 billion euros by 2028.
  • Imperial Brands PLC has unveiled its 2030 strategy focusing on its five largest tobacco markets.
  • Banco BPM's takeover bid for Anima Holding faces challenges as the ECB opposes lenient 'Danish compromise' rules.

Rest of the world:

  • Bank of China reported a 2.6% increase in net profit for 2024.
  • Bharti Airtel prepaid 59.85 billion rupees to settle its high-cost spectrum liabilities from the 2024 auctions.
  • CATL has received approval to issue up to 220.17 million shares in a secondary listing in Hong Kong.
  • Siemens Energy is divesting 90% of its wind energy operations in India and Sri Lanka to an investor consortium led by TPG.
  • CITIC Securities Co reported a 10% increase in net profit last year.
  • Morgan Stanley has increased its China stock index targets, boosting China and Hong Kong stocks.
  • Hillhouse Investment has appointed Jeremy Bleackley and Wataru Goto as co-heads of its Japan real estate investment arm, Rava Partners.