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Google's Android and Apple's iOS are facing fresh scrutiny from Britain's competition watchdog, which announced investigations Thursday targeting the two tech giants' mobile phone ecosystems under new powers to crack down on digital market abuses. The Competition and Markets Authority said it launched separate investigations to determine whether the mobile ecosystems controlled by Apple and Google should be given “strategic market status” that would mandate changes in the companies' practices.

Boat and marine products retailer MarineMax (NYSE:HZO) fell short of the market’s revenue expectations in Q4 CY2024, with sales falling 11.2% year on year to $468.5 million. Its non-GAAP profit of $0.17 per share was significantly above analysts’ consensus estimates.

Global airline American Airlines (NASDAQ:AAL) announced better-than-expected revenue in Q4 CY2024, with sales up 4.6% year on year to $13.66 billion. Its non-GAAP profit of $0.86 per share was 30.1% above analysts’ consensus estimates.

Commercial lighting and retail display solutions provider LSI (NASDAQ:LYTS) reported Q4 CY2024 results beating Wall Street’s revenue expectations, with sales up 35.5% year on year to $147.7 million. Its non-GAAP profit of $0.26 per share was 30% above analysts’ consensus estimates.

Electronic Arts shares are tumbling in premarket trading Thursday, a day after slumping demand for its EA SPORTS FC 25 video game prompted the company to cut its outlook.

Industrial conglomerate General Electric (NYSE:GE) reported Q4 CY2024 results topping the market’s revenue expectations, with sales up 27.2% year on year to $10.81 billion. Its non-GAAP profit of $1.32 per share was 26.9% above analysts’ consensus estimates.

Shares of GE Aerospace surged Thursday morning after the company reported fourth-quarter results far above analysts' estimates.

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Nissan Motor plans to procure batteries for electric vehicles sold in the U.S. from South Korea's SK On from around 2028 onwards, the Nikkei newspaper said on Thursday, as the troubled Japanese automaker looks to ramp up its EV business as part of a planned turnaround. Separately, a Nissan executive said the automaker was considering plans to produce compact EVs at its plant on Japan's southern island Kyushu, confirming a 2024 Reuters report. Nissan, which is in talks to merge with Honda Motor, has been seeking to slash 9,000 jobs and 20% of its global manufacturing capacity in a turnaround plan laid out last year.

The Chinese government is trying to encourage people to spend more by ensuring that share prices will rise, ordering pensions and mutual funds to invest more in domestic stocks to help jolt its languid markets out of the doldrums. Officials told reporters in Beijing on Thursday that beginning this year mutual funds should increase holdings of onshore stocks, called A-shares, by at least 10% a year over the next three years. Commercial insurance funds will have to put 30% of their annual new premium revenue into share markets beginning this year, they said.