Nike, Accenture, Enel, Fedex, Dollar General, Hapag-Lloyd, Ocado, HeidelbergCement, The Swatch Group, Wendel, Tikehau and Zur Rose are among companies reporting their results today.
- Google (Alphabet) announced that it will invest more than $7 billion in U.S. offices and data centers this year and create at least 10,000 full-time jobs.
- The U.S. Federal Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced it was sending a team of investigators to Michigan after a collision between a police car and a Tesla that appeared to have been in automatic driving mode, Reuters reports.
- South Korea's Hanwha may sell up to half of its 5.65% stake in the electric truck designer Nikola this year.
- AMC Entertainment announced that 98% of its theaters would be open for business starting Friday in the United States.
- Volkswagen overtakes SAP SE as the largest capitalization on the DAX.
- Nokia targets an operating margin between 10 and 13% in 2023.
- Honda and Toyota suspend some production in North America due to semiconductor shortages.
- II-VI Incorporated raises its offer for Coherent to $7 billion to outbid Lumentum.
- Semiconductor Manufacturing International secures financial support from Chinese authorities to expand capacity in a $2.35 billion investment.
- The Boeing Company reportedly faces new delivery problems for the B787, according to the Wall Street Journal.
- Activist shareholders of Toshiba win an EGM victory by having an investigation initiated into the shareholders' meeting held last July.
- Schindler denies Handelszeitung's reports of a planned CHF 3 billion takeover of the elevator division of Japan's Mitsubishi.
- Walt Disney Company will reopen its California theme parks on April 30.
- Ulrich Koerner is the new CEO of Credit Suisse Asset Management.
- HSBC confirms it is negotiating the sale of its retail bank in France to My Money Group (Cerberus).
- Implenia wins a major contract for the construction of the Lysaker-Fornebu tunnel in Norway.