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The United Auto Workers and General Motors ratify a contract to end the strike at General Motors plants across the United States.
2023-11-17

A planned US$66 billion merger between British semiconductor company Arm Ltd. and American hardware company Nvidia is cancelled after facing regulatory pressures from the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, and China. Arm says that it will instead go public sometime before March 2023. If the deal were successful, it would have been the largest merger in the history of the semiconductor industry.
2022-02-8

Kioxia, the Japanese computer memory manufacturer spun off from Toshiba, postpones its initial public offering on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, citing the volatility of the semiconductor industry caused by both the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing trade war between China and the United States. Its initial public offering, which would have launched on October 6, was projected to be Japan's largest for this year.
2020-09-28

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission approves new rules that will allow companies that wish to raise capital, and be listed on the New York Stock Exchange, to use direct listings instead of IPOs.
2020-08-26

Uber makes its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange, starting by selling stocks at $42 and closing at $41.60. Uber's market cap drops from over $80 billion to about $72 billion.
2019-05-10

The European Court of Human Rights rules that the United Kingdom breached provisions in the European Convention on Human Rights in relation to mass surveillance practices exposed by American whistleblower Edward Snowden.
2018-09-13

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) and the United Auto Workers (UAW) reach a new tentative four-year labor agreement, averting a threatened strike of the automaker’s U.S. operations. The agreement must be ratified by a vote of FCA's 40,000 U.S. union workers, who rejected the previous proposal earlier this month. If ratified, the UAW intends to use the pact as a template for negotiations with General Motors Co. and Ford Motor Company.
2015-10-8

The New York Stock Exchange, the largest stock exchange in the United States and the world, is sold to Atlanta-based IntercontinentalExchange.
2012-12-20

General Motors announces that it will pay its United States hourly workers more than $4000 each as a share of profits. [http:--www.freep.com-article-20110214-BUSINESS0101-110214013-1318-HSS1201-GM-says-ll-pay-hourly-workers-bonuses-topping-4-000 ("Detroit Free Press")]date=May 2020
2011-02-14

United States car maker General Motors files for an Initial Public Offering.
2010-08-18