* Siemens Gamesa CEO Eickholt to step down by end-July * To resume 4.X sales in Europe by end-September * Now expects 2024 sales to grow by 10-12% * Q2 profit before special items up more than fourfold (Adds details on results, trader comment in paragraphs 9-10) By Christoph Steitz and Tom Käckenhoff FRANKFURT/DUESSELDORF, May 8 (Reuters) - Siemens Energy...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Amazon.com on Tuesday unveiled the first of a dozen Volvo electric big rigs it plans to deploy this year to pick up cargo from the nation's busiest container seaport in Southern California. The e-commerce giant already has eight of those semi trucks in use at the Los Angeles/Long Beach port complex, where every so-called drayage truck must...

STOCKHOLM, May 8 (Reuters) - Swedish builder Skanska reported a smaller-than-expected rise in operating earnings for the first quarter on Wednesday as profits in its bread-and-butter construction business recorded a year-on-year fall. The Nordic region's biggest construction group said operating earnings rose to 497 million crowns ($45.6 million) from a year-ago 394 million, lagging the 873 million seen in a...

May 8 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. - Perpetual has agreed to sell its corporate trust and wealth management businesses to buyout firm KKR in a deal worth around 2.18 billion Australian dollars (US$1.44 billion). -TikTok filed a federal...