* AIRBUS AIR.PA – South Korea’s largest air carrier, Korean Air 003490.KS, plans to buy around twenty A350 wide-body aircraft from Airbus, the Bloomberg agency reported on Monday, citing five sources familiar with the matter.
* VINCI SGEF.PA reported on Friday motorway traffic down 2.1% and airport passenger traffic up 14.4% year-on-year in February.
➦ Traffic in February at Vinci Autoroutes fell by 2.1% year-on-year
* TOTALENERGIES TTEF.PA announced on Sunday that it had exceeded 1.5 gigawatt (GW) of long-term contracts for the production and supply of solar electricity on sites for businesses, which the group has concluded with around 600 industrial and commercial customers in the world.
➦ TotalEnergies is growing in on-site solar for businesses
* ALSTOM ALSO.PA is leaving the CAC40 index this Monday and will be replaced by the hotel group ACCOR ACC.PA as part of the recalibration of the Parisian index announced at the beginning of the month by Euronext ENX.PA.
* VALNEVA VLS.PA announced on Monday the postponement of the start date for repayment of the loan taken out with the American funds specializing in the health sector Deerfield Management Company and OrbiMed.
➦ Valneva postpones the start of repayment of the loan contracted with Deerfield and Orbimed
* EUROPEAN AUTOMOTIVE SECTOR – Tesla TSLA.O announced this weekend its intention to increase the price of its Model Y electric SUV by around 2,000 euros, or an equivalent amount, in several European markets from March 22.
➦ Tesla will raise the price of its Model Y in certain European markets
* HALEON HLN.L announced Monday that Pfizer PFE.N would sell around 630 million of its shares, the American group thus reducing its stake to around 24% in the British consumer health giant.
* UBS UBSG.S will look for merger and acquisition opportunities in the United States in the coming years, its president said in an interview with the newspaper NZZ, published on Sunday.
➦ UBS is looking for acquisition opportunities in the USA, says its president
* LOGITECH LOGN.S announced Monday that its financial director, Charles Boynton, would leave the group in May.
(Writing by Claude Chendjou, editing by Zhifan Liu and Kate Entringer)