International stocks trading in New York were mixed on Thursday.
The BNY Mellon index of American depositary receipts edged up 0.61%
to 137.21. The European index increased 0.63% to 134.67, the Asian
index improved 1% to 141.61, the Latin American index fell 1.2% to
226.09 and the emerging markets index increased 0.53% to 263.13.
Among the companies with shares that actively traded was
Anheuser-Busch InBev SA (BUD, ABI.BT).
Anheuser-Busch InBev is launching an e-commerce app called Bud
Light Button that will make it possible for consumers in
Washington, D.C., to stay on the couch while someone else makes a
beer run. It is the latest push by a major brewer to enter the
world of e-commerce and jumpstart delivery of alcoholic beverages.
Shares of the world's biggest beer maker rose 71 cents to
$114.24.
BP PLC (BP, BP.LN) plans to lay off about 300 people in the
North Sea hub of Aberdeen, Scotland, the biggest sign yet of the
problems besetting the U.K.'s main oil-producing region. As oil
prices continue to slide, some of the North Seas's reserves may be
too expensive to develop. Other big oil companies such as Chevron
Corp., BG Group PLC and Statoil ASA are already reassessing major
capital-spending decisions that might have helped extend the oil
region's life. BP shares rose six cents to $35.73.
UBS AG (UBS) has agreed to pay $14.4 million to settle
Securities and Exchange Commission charges related to its dark-pool
trading operations, the U.S. agency's largest ever penalty against
an alternative trading system. Shares rose five cents to
$16.53.
Write to Tess Stynes at tess.stynes@wsj.com
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