Earnings Report

Deutsche Bank says it saw its profit improve by 67 percent in the first quarter, though revenue dropped 9 percent as proceeds from trading declined sharply.

Anglo-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca says first quarter earnings jumped 74%, buoyed by emerging markets and the success of new cancer treatments.

Royal Bank of Scotland says first-quarter earnings fell 12.5% as economic uncertainty linked to Brexit curtailed lending.

Japanese entertainment and electronics company Sony Corp. has reverted to profitability for the quarter through March, boosted by robust demand for game software and network services, as well as gains from Spotify.

Asian shares were mixed Thursday, with the Shanghai benchmark sharply lower, after U.S. stocks gave back some gains from Tuesday's rally on Wall Street.

The Latest on Amazon's first quarter earnings (all times local): ____ 6:00 p.m. Amazon says its free shipping for Prime members will be even faster, promising one-day shipping on most items instead of two-day delivery.

Amazon's push into advertising and cloud computing is paying off, helping the online shopping giant's first quarter profit more than double from a year ago.

Starbucks Corp. is raising its profit outlook for 2019 after better-than-expected results in its most recent quarter.

Southwest Airlines' first quarter performance managed to beat Wall Street's view, even as the airline said it came under pressure due to thousands of flight cancellations related to Boeing's 737 Max 8.

Ford earnings fell in the first quarter, but the automaker's shares rallied in extended trading as Ford said a restructuring is starting to take hold.

___ Walmart experiments with AI to monitor stores in real time LEVITTOWN, N.Y.

The earnings beat came days after Luckin filed for its initial public offering in a bid to raise $100 million.

Disappointingly weak earnings reports from 3M and other industrial companies kept U.S. stock indexes in check on Thursday, blotting out a set of blowout results from big-name tech companies.

Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily on Thursday: Microsoft Corp., up $4.14 to $129.15

The carmaker is in the midst of a major international restructuring effort.

The e-commerce giant posted earnings per share of $7.09, beating the $4.27 expected by analysts polled by Refinitiv.

T-Mobile, the third-largest U.S. wireless carrier by subscriber count, is awaiting approval of its deal to buy smaller rival Sprint Corp as it strives for more scale to compete with bigger rivals Verizon Communications Inc and AT&T Inc.

The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local): 9:35 a.m.