H&M rallies on results, IG Group tumbles on CEO exit

European stocks ended Thursday’s session slightly higher though Italy’s looming budget announcement weighed on Italian equities and particularly bank shares.

CFO Hawkins says customers who split time between cloud providers like Amazon, Google and Microsoft or with their own servers spend 10 times more than others

Salesforce.com Inc.’s revenue will be supported by customers who use more than one public cloud service, the software giant told analysts Wednesday at its Dreamforce convention in San Francisco, while maintaining its forecasts.

Daimler, Deutsche Bank under pressure

Europe’s main stock gauge finished Wednesday higher for a second session in a row, ahead of the Federal Reserve decision, which can influence European action.

Children still eat unhealthily at fast-food joints, even those who have committed to selling more nutritious food

The prospect of working at Goldman Sachs is more appealing for conservatives than liberals

While October is a middle-of-the-road month, based on historic seasonality, it is extremely strong in midterm years

Daimler AG shares fell Wednesday after the company announced a shake-up at the top, saying Chief Executive Dieter Zetsche will exit his position after its annual 2019 shareholder meeting.

Plans Hong Kong debut

Bitmain Technologies, the largest digital currency mining company in the world, released its first public financial statements to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, confirming its intention to go public.

The document is the first look into the company’s financial situation and showed the Beijing-based giant racked up $2.8 billion in revenue in the six months ending June 2018, a 10-fold increase from the same period in 2017.

Euro traders focused on tomorrow’s Italian budget

The U.S. dollar saw fairly muted trade Wednesday after the Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the third time in 2018, as expected.

A slide in the U.S. dollar and a rally by its main rival, the euro, moderated toward the end of the New York trading session on Monday, and investors returned to focusing on this week’s Federal Reserve meeting, which is widely expected to deliver a rate increase.