Europe's top court on Thursday referred Hutchison's challenge against an EU veto of its 13-billion-pound bid to acquire O2 UK from Spain's Telefonica seven years ago back to a lower tribunal.
Berkshire Hathaway Inc on Monday disclosed it has begun investing in Capital One Financial Corp while exiting investments in four other stocks, as the company run by Warren Buffett cut back its exposure to equities.
The U.S. stock market rally this year is so narrow that the S&P 500 index's gains have been entirely driven by just a handful of stocks, which are now significantly more expensive than more than 95% of the broader market.
Europe's stock markets and the euro sagged on Thursday as investors waited for another European Central Bank rate rise after the U.S. Federal Reserve signalled that its marathon hiking run may finally have gone far enough.