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This would mean that the Fed report exaggerated the gains in motor vehicle output last month and that auto production might dip in August. Other sectors making significant increases in June included wood products (up 1.4 percent), apparel and leather (up 1.0 percent), paper (up...

VW said Friday that the recall affected Golf, Passat, Jetta and Tiguan models assembled from 2010 to 2014.

Moody’s Investors Service said it “downgraded Brazil’s government bond rating to Baa3 from Baa2”.

Global law firm Hausfeld LLP. announced Thursday that the plaintiffs in the Foreign Exchange Benchmark Rates Antitrust Litigation have reached settlements totaling more than $2 billion with nine of the world’s largest banks.

As well as the requirement to deposit 5 million pounds in a court account, the original bail conditions included wearing an electronic tag, complying with a night-time curfew at his home in Hounslow, west London, and reporting to a police station three times a week.

Analysts polled by Yahoo Finance had predicted EPS of 90 cents and earnings of $3.7 billion. Earlier, it estimated per share profit of between $3.65 and $3.80 and increase in sales between 7% and 9% with comparable sales increasing between 2% and 4%.

Once the darling of the Amsterdam stock exchange, Imtech, one of Europe’s largest engineering and technical services providers, was still hoping on Friday to sell two of its major divisions, after being declared bankrupt by a court in Rotterdam.

“A rebounding manufacturing sector is indicative of improvement in broader economic activity”, Gennadiy Goldberg, U.S. strategist at TD Securities LLC in New York, said before the report.

El Pollo LoCo Holdings has a 52 week low of $17.51 and a 52 week high of $40.89.

A day later Microsoft unveiled its own new policy.

J.C. Penney reported a narrower loss in its second quarter on stronger-than-expected sales as the department store chain continues to turn its business around.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s Syriza party looked set to split after the leader of its far-left faction called for a new movement to fight a bailout deal that lawmakers will vote on later on Thursday.

Pre-tax profit rose 19% to £33.7mln on a 16% lift in revenue to £1.6bn.

Industrial production in the 19-member-state bloc fell 0.4% month-on-month in June, still 1.2% higher year-on-year, the EU’s statistics office Eurostat said yesterday, but below analysts’ expectations for a 0.2% fall.

Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos said the government has pledged to stick to the creditors’ demand of achieving a primary surplus – the budget without taking into account debt servicing – of 3.5 percent of gross domestic product by 2018.