Tesla Inc on Thursday announced plans to raise $2 billion in a stock offering, tapping into an astronomical jump in its share price over the past few months and reversing the electric-car maker’s often-stated policy of avoiding sales of new stock.

Alphabet Inc-owned Google said on Thursday it has completed its $2.6 billion buyout of privately held big-data analytics firm Looker Data Sciences after winning clearance from Britain’s competition watchdog.

Investment group Exor will have around $13 billion in cash provided it closes a deal to sell its reinsurance unit PartnerRe and it would spend most of that on acquisitions.

France’s AXA had agreed with Austrian insurer Uniqa to sell its operations in Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia for 1 billion euros ($1.09 billion).

EU antitrust regulators opened on Thursday an in-depth investigation into EssilorLuxottica’s 7.2 billion euro bid for Dutch opticians group GrandVision, saying the deal could push up prices.

Intercontinental Exchange Inc, the owner of the New York Stock Exchange, said on Tuesday it had approached e-commerce company eBay Inc to explore “a range of potential opportunities”.

Payments company Worldline agreed on Monday to buy French rival Ingenico in a 7.8 billion euro ($8.7 billion) deal, creating a European leader in a sector trying to keep up with fast-changing consumer habits and technologies.

Hitachi Ltd said on Friday it would spend about $4.84 billion to take full control of listed industrial equipment unit Hitachi High-Technologies through a tender offer.