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Ford Beats Comfortably Beast Estimates And Returns To Profitability

A strong demand for trucks of Ford helped the United States based auto major to register a much larger profit than was being expected by the Wall Street which helped the company to return to profitability.    Excluding special items, the company earned $2.6 billion which is almost...

Heavy Restructuring Charge Forces Q3 Loss For Airbus, Sets Quarterly Cash Goal

Ever since the novel coronavirus pandemic begun in March and the global aviation industry was instantly severely hit, the first glimpse of how the European airplane maker Airbus will perform in the future was given by the company as it said on Thursday that it expected to reach cash breakeven in...

China’s Ant Group Reduces Support For Overseas Fintech Firms As Change In Strategy

With its new strategy of moving away from its earlier ambitions of becoming a global payments leader, China's Ant Group Co Ltd has been cutting down on funding and staff support to a number of the e-wallet firms overseas in which it had invested, claimed reports quoting sources with knowledge of...

A Dedicated 'Eco-Friendly' Shopping Platform Launched In Europe By Amazon

In order to better guide consumers in the United Kingdom and other European countries to look for household products that have sustainable credentials, a completely new and dedicated “eco-friendly” shopping platform has been launched by Amazon.   In order to help consumers pick products on...

Global Covid-19 Vaccine Supply Deal Made By GSK And Sanofi

About 200 million doses of their coronavirus vaccine candidate will be supplied to a global inoculation scheme by drug making giants GSK and Sanofi.   Currently, the first stage of testing is being undertaken by the two companies' vaccine.   With deaths of more than 1.16 million...

737 Max Grounding And Covid-19 Woes Forces Boeing To Deepen Job Cuts

The coronavirus pandemic and 737 MAX grounding continued to hammer sales at Boeing Co propelling the company to report its fourth straight quarterly loss on Wednesday. The company however reaffirmed its expectations that it would be able to resume US deliveries of the 737 Max planes before the year...

Mercedes Depends On Evolution In Contrast To Tesla’s Revolution In Self-Driving Cars

German luxury car maker Mercedes-Benz claimed that it has developed a self driving system similar to the new Full Self Driving software being touted by Tesla to be of a cutting-edge nature, but has not mentioned anything about allowing members of the public to use the technology on public roads....

Strong Demand Forces Ant Group To Pre-Close Institutional Book Of Its Hong Kong IPO

Strong demand is prompting China’s Ant Group to prematurely close institutional order books for the Hong Kong part of its record breaking dual IPO, said reports quoting sources with knowledge of the matter.    The company has decided to close the institutional book of the $17.2 billion...

Asian Business And Slower Loan Losses Help HSBC Beat Q3 Profit Estimates

Resilient performance from its Asian operations and with less money set aside to address issues of bad loans helped lender HSBC to report better-than-expected profit in the third quarter.   Previously, the biggest bank of Europe in terms of assets had said that it could set aside as much as...

Gas Riches And Reconciliation In Middle East Eyed By Chevron For Future Expansion

The United States based energy firm Chevron Corp is now focusing on its natural gas future tied to the Middle East which is a volatile and divided region which has posed any challenges to energy companies. Previously the company was focused on shale production in the US.    An...

US Biotech Firm Asklepios Bio To Be Acquired By Bayer For Up To $4 Bln

Agreement to acquire the United States based biotech firm Asklepios BioPharmaceutical Inc for a deal which could be worth as much as $4 billion was reached by Bayer with the former company hoping to take advantage of the former’s expertise on gene therapy with the help of modified viruses.  ...

Boom In Home Fitness Trend To Be Tapped By Fitness Equipment Maker Technogym

In order to offset a drop in sales to gyms and studios because of the restrictions imposed due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, Italian fitness equipment maker Technogym is creating infrastructure to be able to supply more of its exercise machines and virtual trainers to homes of customers....
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