07:54 AM EDT, 03/12/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Toyota Motor ( TM ) is seeing potential risks to the agreement it signed with Tesla (TSLA) regarding the European Commission's carbon dioxide emissions targets, Bloomberg reported late Tuesday, citing an interview with Toyota Europe Chief Corporate Officer Matt Harrison. With the Commission planning to ease its regulation on how much carbon dioxide...

07:51 AM EDT, 03/12/2025 (MT Newswires) -- (Updates to add the most recent premarket move in the last paragraph) Baidu ( BIDU ) said Wednesday that it completed a $2 billion exchangeable bonds offering, maturing in 2032. The company said the bonds, sold in offshore transactions outside the US to non-US investors, will not accrue regular interest, and the principal...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - A pan-African payments infrastructure provider designed to facilitate trade on the continent is piloting an African currency market platform to boost commerce across borders in the region, its chief executive said. The Pan-African Payments and Settlement System (PAPSS), backed by 15 central banks on the continent, expects to add the platform later this year to complement its...

07:54 AM EDT, 03/12/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Meta Platforms ( META ) is facing a lawsuit filed by a group of French publishers and authors over the tech company's alleged copyright infringement, according to a Wednesday statement. The complaint was filed by writers' union SNAC, authors' association SGDL, and publishers trade association SNE in a Paris court. In the lawsuit,...