• Vivendi lists UMG on the Amsterdam stock exchange at EUR 18.50 per share.
  • EssilorLuxottica acquires a 3.3% stake in GrandVision, raising its stake to 86.7%.
  • Royal Dutch Shell sells its interest in the Permian Basin for $9.5 billion to ConocoPhillips.
  • Compass outlook a little higher than expected for its fiscal Q4.
  • National Express and Stagecoach are considering a combination with a share buyout of Stagecoach.
  • Partners Group raises $15 billion for a new private equity investment program.
  • APA Group outbids Brookfield's offer for Ausnet by AUD 2.60.
  • Novartis acquires Arctos Medical.
  • Allianz 's head of asset management is reportedly on the way out, according to the Wall Street Journal.
  • The SEC is reportedly investigating Activision's internal labor practices, according to the Wall Street Journal.
  • General Motors will replace faulty batteries in its Bolt models in October.
  • Coinbase is backing away from launching a cryptocurrency lending program.
  • Uber jumped nearly 7% in pre-market trading after announcing that it could make the first adjusted profit in its history in the current quarter thanks to better-than-expected business. The VTC services group expects to post an adjusted Ebitda in the third quarter between a loss of 25 million dollars and a profit of the same order, and in the fourth quarter a positive Ebitda which could reach 100 million dollars.
  • Johnson & Johnson - The stock is up 1% in pre-market trading. The pharmaceutical company announced Tuesday that a second dose of its Covid-19 vaccine administered about two months after the first dose achieved 94% efficacy against moderate to severe forms of the disease in a clinical trial involving 30,000 participants.
  • US Bancorp - Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) has completed the sale of the retail financial services business of its U.S. subsidiary MUFG Union Bank to US Bancorp for approximately $8 billion
  • The Boeing Company estimates that demand for aircraft in the European market should reach 7,100 single-aisle aircraft by 2040, mainly due to the needs of low-cost airlines.
  • JPMorgan Chase launched on Tuesday in Great Britain a bank for individuals via a mobile application, a first for the group outside North America, with the ambition to compete with Lloyds, Barclays, NatWest or HSBC.
  • Robinhood Markets is testing new cryptocurrency wallet features that allow users to receive and transfer assets like bitcoin
  • Netflix on Monday launched a free, ad-free package of its video-on-demand service in Kenya for users with an Android-based smartphone. The package includes only about a quarter of the available programs, and the U.S. group hopes to convince customers to upgrade to the paid package after testing the free package.