Southwest Airlines Co said on Thursday it had reached a confidential compensation agreement with Boeing Co for a portion of projected financial damages arising from the grounding of its 737 MAX aircraft.
U.S. stocks hit record highs on Thursday after President Donald Trump tweeted that Washington was "very close" to a trade deal with Beijing and on a report that U.S. trade negotiators had offered to cancel a new round of tariffs on Chinese goods.
Federal Aviation Administration chief Steve Dickson, who will meet with Boeing Co's chief executive later on Thursday, is concerned the U.S. airplane maker is pursuing a return-to-service schedule for the grounded 737 MAX that is "not realistic," according to an email seen by Reuters.
U.S. stock indexes jumped to new highs on Thursday, and Treasury yields rose, on a tweet from President Donald Trump that a trade deal with China was "very close" and a report that U.S. trade negotiators had offered to cancel a fresh round of tariffs on Chinese goods.
The United States has offered to cut existing tariffs on Chinese goods by as much as 50% and suspend new tariffs expected to go into effect Sunday in an attempt to secure a "Phase One" trade deal.
Saudi Aramco hit the $2 trillion target sought by de-facto Saudi leader Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Thursday as its shares racked up a second day of gains, despite some scepticism about the state-owned oil firm's value.
Saudis took to Twitter to celebrate Aramco's valuation hitting $2 trillion on Thursday, with one posting praising de-facto leader Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as a fortune teller.
Thyssenkrupp is hoping to win contracts for a planned factory Tesla plans to build near Berlin, a board member of the German conglomerate told a business daily.
Sweden's prosecution authority has opened an investigation into possible bribery by employees at mobile telecoms group Ericsson that came to light during a U.S. probe into corruption, daily Dagens Industri wrote on Thursday.
MSCI's global stock index hit a record high on Thursday after President Donald Trump said the United States was "very close" to reaching a trade deal with China.
The International Monetary Fund would welcome any deal to reduce U.S.-China trade tensions and tariffs, but is urging the world's two largest economies to permanently resolve their 17-month trade war, IMF spokesman Gerry Rice said on Thursday.
U.S. trade negotiators have offered to cancel a new round of tariffs on imported Chinese goods set to take effect on Sunday as part of an effort to cement a phase-one deal to de-escalate the trade relationship between the two powers, the Wall Street Journal said on Thursday.
U.S. producer prices were unexpectedly unchanged in November as increases in food and gasoline prices were offset by declining costs for services, pointing to muted inflation despite a recent uptick in consumer prices.
Jens Tischendorf, a partner at activist fund Cevian, will leave the supervisory board of Thyssenkrupp after his five-year term ends next month, the ailing conglomerate said on Thursday.
The $2.2 trillion repurchase agreement market - part of the inner workings of the U.S. financial system - is facing what could be another strain as the year comes to a close. That could have wider implications than just Wall Street.
Subaru Corp expects its U.S. vehicle sales to rise to a record high in 2020, as demand for its SUV crossover models helps it buck the trend of slowing car sales in the Japanese automaker's biggest market.
Apple Inc's iPhone shipments in China fell more than 35% in November, marking their second straight double-digit decline as sales of the cheaper iPhone 11 remained sluggish, brokerage Credit Suisse said on Thursday.
The number of Americans filing applications for unemployment benefits jumped to more than a two-year high last week, but that probably does not signal a pickup in layoffs as the claims data tends to be volatile in the period following the Thanksgiving Day holiday.