Earnings also influenced Wall Street. UnitedHealth Group on Thursday raised its 2019 profit outlook after beating estimates for financial results through June.
Anheuser-Busch InBev is reportedly considering selling its business units in Australia, Central America and South Korea after it called off its initial public offering of its Asian businesses.
The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of 14 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.21 per share.
Google is partnering with an Australian real estate developer to complete its plan to build housing and other developments through the San Francisco Bay Area.Â
While new streaming services such as Disney Plus and HBO Max are set to challenge Netflix’s dominance of the sector in the coming months, company executives said they did not believe competition was a major factor.
Amazon has faced allegations of anti-competitive practices in recent months amid concerns that it could use sales data from its third-party platform to develop target product offerings.
