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Agricultural and construction machinery company Deere (NYSE:DE) missed Wall Street’s revenue expectations in Q4 CY2024, with sales falling 18.9% year on year to $8.51 billion. Its GAAP profit of $3.19 per share was 1.8% below analysts’ consensus estimates.

Healthcare products company West Pharmaceutical Services (NYSE:WST) reported Q4 CY2024 results topping the market’s revenue expectations, with sales up 2.3% year on year to $748.8 million. On the other hand, the company’s full-year revenue guidance of $2.89 billion at the midpoint came in 5% below analysts’ estimates. Its non-GAAP profit of $1.82 per share was 5.3% above analysts’ consensus estimates.

Talks to end the Ukraine war have partly cut across the hot U.S. inflation report for world markets, reining in both oil prices and capping aggravated U.S. borrowing rates - while also lifting the euro and European shares. Long-flagged by U.S. President Donald Trump as a priority, Wednesday's news that he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on talks to end the war dragged crude oil lower. With Russia still the world's third-largest oil producer, the prospect of some future lifting of sanctions on its crude exports saw U.S. oil prices fall back to $70 per barrel and close to the year's lows - down some 4% from Tuesday's close.

Honda's U.S.-listed shares are rising in premarket trading after the Japanese automaker and ailing domestic rival Nissan said they have called off merger plans announced in December.

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Semiconductor maker Himax Technologies (NASDAQ:HIMX) reported Q4 CY2024 results exceeding the market’s revenue expectations, with sales up 4.2% year on year to $237.2 million. On top of that, next quarter’s revenue guidance ($212.3 million at the midpoint) was surprisingly good and 5.8% above what analysts were expecting. Its GAAP profit of $0.14 per share was 40% above analysts’ consensus estimates.

(Reuters) -The S&P 500 ended higher on Thursday, lifted by gains in Nvidia, Apple and Tesla, after U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled a roadmap for charging reciprocal tariffs on U.S. trading partners. A White House official said the tariffs would match the higher duties charged by other countries and could be imposed within weeks as Trump's trade and economic team studies bilateral tariff and trade relationships. Healthcare, with a nearly 20% weighting in the core PCE, declined 0.06%.