• Amazon is expected to overtake rivals FedEx and United Parcel Service by the end of this year or early 2022 in parcel delivery.
  • Bluebell wants Glencore to spin off its coal business.
  • Lundin Energy may sell its oil production business for $11 billion.
  • Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has sold half his shares in the company.
  • EasyJet is already seeing a downturn in demand due to the Omicron variant.
  • Volvo Car sees the supply situation improving after its third-quarter profit decline.
  • Facebook (Meta) is pushing back its ticker change from FB to META to Q1 2022.
  • UnitedHealth tightens its earnings guidance range for 2021.
  • General Electric to buy back up to $25bn of its long-term debt.
  • Shaftesbury posts lower annual loss as London customers return.
  • Parag Agrawal succeeds Jack Dorsey as Twitter CEO.
  • LATAM Airlines shares plunge 45% on the Santiago stock exchange.
  • Air Lease delivers the first of six new Airbus A321-200neo aircraft to China Airlines.
  • Burkhalter buys an electrical engineering company in the Valais.
  • Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel said Tuesday that currently available COVID-19 vaccines are unlikely to be as effective against the Omicron variant as they have been against previous strains of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. The stock is down 5.5% in pre-market trading.
  • Regeneron announced Tuesday that its cocktail of antibodies against COVID-19 and other similar treatments may be less effective against the Omicron variant. The stock is down 2.7% in pre-market trading.
  • Pfizer, BioNTech - The two companies are expected to ask the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the next few days to allow a booster dose of their COVID-19 vaccine for 16- to 17-year-olds, the Washington Post reported Monday, citing sources.
  • Occidental Petroleum, down 3.8% in pre-market trading, posted one of the biggest losses among energy groups as oil prices fell amid doubts about global demand.
  • The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the British competition authority, asked Meta, Facebook's parent company on Tuesday to divest the Giphy animated image platform, saying the deal signed between the two companies could hurt social network users and advertisers. Meta shares are down 0.8% in pre-market trading.
  • Tesla - Elon Musk, the car company's chief executive, highlighted on Monday the difficulties encountered in the supply chain to produce its Cybertruck, an electric pickup truck unveiled in 2019 and for which Tesla says it has received several hundred thousand orders. The stock is losing 0.7% in pre-market trading.
  • Elanco Animal Health announced Tuesday it will cut 380 jobs worldwide as part of a restructuring that began after it bought Bayer's veterinary drug unit last year for $6.89 billion (6.07 billion euros).

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