NEW YORK (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Thursday stopped short of approving Deutsche Bank AG's $75 million settlement with women who said that Jeffrey Epstein abused them, and that the German bank facilitated the late financier's sex trafficking.

The Gap Inc on Thursday beat a shareholder lawsuit claiming the company's directors breached their duties by making misleading statements in securities filings about the retailer's commitment to racial diversity in its leadership ranks.

Electric truck maker Nikola Corp may execute a reverse stock split if its stock does not comply with Nasdaq's minimum bid price requirements within a certain period, its chief executive Michael Lohscheller said on Thursday.

Federal Reserve emergency lending to banks edged down in the latest week, driven by a decline in "other credit" to government wind-downs of failed banks, to $188.1 billion on Wednesday from $192.6 billion a week earlier, according to Fed data released on Thursday.

Boeing Co will "stand down" from preparations for its first crewed Starliner test flight to space, which was planned for July, after the company discovered a flammable tape material and issues with the spacecraft's parachutes, a Boeing official said on Thursday.

A federal appeals court, in a decision unsealed Wednesday, upheld the dismissal of a whistleblower lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson as a sanction for the plaintiffs' misuse of confidential records they obtained through related litigation.