ADR Shares End Mixed; Anheuser-Busch InBev Shares Edge Up

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.

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