PropertyGuru, an online real estate portal focused on south-east Asia, has shelved plans for a stock market listing in Australia, the latest in a string of withdrawn share offerings in the country. 

Asian equities were mixed on Wednesday while the pound held on to losses from the previous session following the latest Brexit drama. 

Texas Instruments offered a sales outlook that came up short against Wall Street estimates, driving down shares in the company and fellow chipmakers late Tuesday.

Snap said it expected to hit its target of turning a profit by the end of the year after posting a strong revenue beat and shrinking losses in the third quarter, but its forecasts fell short of analysts’ predictions for the fourth quarter. 

US stocks and the British pound turned south after UK parliament voted in favour of Boris Johnson’s deal to withdraw Great Britain from the EU but subsequently voted against an accelerated timetable for Brexit.

The British pound’s longest streak of big one-day moves since the Brexit referendum was extended after UK lawmakers voted against an accelerated timetable for Great Britain to withdraw from the EU.

Facebook is in a poor position to promote its plans to launch a global cryptocurrency, Mark Zuckerberg has admitted, in candid testimony released before a key congressional hearing on Wednesday.

Energy suppliers in Britain could be forced to submit to independent financial audits under new rules to tackle the tide of smaller electricity and gas companies that have gone bust in the past three years.

Hasbro shares were eyeing their biggest sell-off in more than 18 years, after the toy maker said the threat of more tariffs caused retailers to cancel or change orders during the third quarter.

The German government is set to nominate Isabel Schnabel, an economics professor and government adviser, to the executive board of the European Central Bank, marking a potentially important shift in both strategy and policy.

Fast-food chain McDonald’s posted disappointing sales growth in the US and reported an earnings miss in the third quarter as it faces stiff competition from rivals.

Russian gas company Novatek has been given a green light to continue using a number of ice-class tankers after the US stepped back from sanctions against the vessel’s owner.

Continental, one of the world’s largest automotive suppliers, announced it would take €2.5bn of impairment charges, as it warned of a deep decline in the car industry exacerbated by weak growth in China.

Parcel delivery company UPS, considered an economic bellwether, said strong demand for next day deliveries driven by retail and healthcare deliveries helped fuel its profits in the third quarter.

Whitbread, the owner of Premier Inn, reported a first-half drop in pre-tax profit and UK accommodation like-for-like sales amid “challenging” market conditions in the UK as business and leisure confidence weakened.

The US government has given Chevron and four oil service providers permission to keep working in Venezuela for another three months, extending their exemption from oil sanctions that have hit the rest of the industry in the South American country to a full year.

Stamps.com rallied more than 20 per cent late on Monday after UPS said it had partnered with the company to provide discounted shipping rates to customers.

Wall Street rallied on Monday, boosted by trade optimism and tracking gains in global stocks, while the pound fluctuated against the backdrop of the Brexit drama.

Halliburton pledged to keep cutting costs in its North American operations during the current quarter in news that propped up its share price and helped a softening outlook.

Germany’s central bank warned the country’s economy may have shrunk for its second consecutive three-month period, which would mean the eurozone’s biggest economy has entered its first recession in six years.

BHP, the world’s largest miner, said it expected to make a multimillion-pound provision this year due to a switch from coal to renewable sources of energy in Chile.

The pound held its recent gains on Monday as traders waited to find out whether Boris Johnson would be granted another vote on his Brexit deal, after a Commons defeat at the weekend left him scrambling to meet his commitment that the UK would leave the EU by October 31.

Namal Nawana has quit as chief executive of Smith & Nephew after 18 months because the UK medical devices company could not meet his pay demands.

ESR Cayman, an Asia-focused logistics company backed by Warburg Pincus, is looking to raise as much as $1.45bn in a revived Hong Kong initial public offering, in the latest example of a company opting to brave the political unrest that is rocking the Asia finance hub.