(Reuters) – Dell Inc is close to a deal to combine shares that track its VMware Inc virtualization-software unit in an effort that would result in a public listing for the personal computer and data storage company, the Wall Street Journal said on Sunday. Citi... More »
BOSTON (Reuters) – Billionaire investor John Paulson’s top real estate executives are launching their own investment firm with $1 billion and the hedge fund manager’s blessing, sources familiar with the matter said. Michael Barr, a portfolio manager who headed... More »
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s finance minister on Wednesday defended a euro zone reform blueprint agreed with France against criticism by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives that it could undermine monetary stability. Members of Merkel’s conservative bloc ... More »
BERLIN (Reuters) – The leaders of Germany and France agreed on Tuesday to create a budget for the euro zone and hailed a “new chapter” for the currency union, but they left the details to be worked out later with other members of the 19-country bloc. Their mee... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Shares in lender CYBG rose as much as 3 percent on Monday after it announced a revised bid for rival Virgin Money (VM.L), increasing the likelihood of a deal that would create a new competitor to Britain’s biggest banks. CYBG, owner of Clyde... More »
HONG KONG (Reuters/IFR) – Chinese smartphone and connected device maker Xiaomi plans to raise up to 30 percent of its blockbuster $10 billion IPO by selling shares in mainland China while offering the remainder in Hong Kong, said people with knowledge of the m... More »
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd will inject some of its online pharmacy business into a listed unit in a deal valued at HK$10.6 billion ($1.35 billion), the firm said in a statement on Tuesday. Alibaba Health Information... More »
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Deutsche Boerse, the German stock exchange operator, is planning a major shakeup of the composition of three key indexes later this year that affects technology stocks. Technology shares will now be included in the midcap index MDAX and t... More »
BOSTON (Reuters) – Hedge fund Pagoda Asset Management is shutting down at the end of the month, becoming the latest casualty in the $3.2 trillion industry after a period of sluggish returns, a source with knowledge of the move said on Thursday. New York-based ... More »
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Two Chinese bitcoin mining equipment makers plan to raise up to $1 billion each from Hong Kong listings this year, riding on strong global interest in cryptocurrencies, IFR reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the plans. Canaa... More »
ZURICH (Reuters) – Nestle will pay Starbucks $7.15 billion as part of a global coffee alliance in which the Swiss-based food giant is getting the rights to market the U.S. coffee company’s products around the world outside Starbucks’ coffee shops. Starbucks sa... More »
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple Inc (AAPL.O) was not the only one to leap on a chance to buy its stock at a fat discount last quarter as Warren Buffett stepped in to scoop up an additional 75 million shares for Berkshire Hathaway (BRKa.N) at the same time. Bet... More »
OMAHA, Neb. (Reuters) – Warren Buffett said he would be happy if his conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway Inc owned more than 5 percent of Apple Inc’s stock, including if the iPhone maker bought back more of its shares. Buffett made his assessment before tens of th... More »
(Reuters) – Apple Inc’s stock hit an all-time high on Friday after Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc disclosed it bought an additional 75 million shares of the iPhone maker in the first three months of the year. Buffett’s increased stake, which was confi... More »
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s largest-listed wealth manager AMP announced the resignations of its chairwoman and legal counsel on Monday, and slashed its directors’ fees by a quarter as it races to stem the fallout from damaging revelations of misconduct at t... More »
HONG KONG (Reuters) – When Hong Kong unveiled plans last year to encourage biotech companies to list in the city by loosening listing rules, the financial industry and investors cheered. Hong Kong was an obvious financing center for a growing number of Chinese... More »
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Biotechs without revenue can apply to list in Hong Kong from Monday under new rules aimed at attracting listings, mostly from China’s fast-developing market. The move is part of a bold effort to rival New York’s Nasdaq, the biggest and be... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Nasdaq Inc has asked regulators to allow it to give small companies a choice of trading on a single U.S. stock exchange, rather than all 13 of them, in an effort to make it easier for buyers and sellers of the stocks to find each other. Cu... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. companies are on track to buy back a record amount of their own stock this year, but a decades-old markets rule aimed at preventing manipulation makes these trades easy to game and has probably cost companies billions in recent years.... More »
SEOUL (Reuters) – Hyundai Motor (005380.KS) said it will cancel $890 million worth of treasury shares, its first stock cancellation in 14 years – a plan that comes amid heavy shareholder pressure to improve returns, restructure and bounce back from dismal earn... More »
(Reuters) – Hedge fund Elliott Advisors has become the second activist investor to call for Whitbread (WTB.L) to split its hotel and coffee shop businesses after emerging as the largest shareholder in the British company. Elliott, which disclosed a 6 percent s... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Gatemore Capital Management has built a stake in Wincanton and called on the British logistics company to break itself up by selling one of its two divisions, according to a letter sent by Gatemore to its own investors. The asset management ... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Shire, the London-listed rare diseases specialist that is a potential takeover target for Japan’s Takeda Pharmaceutical, is selling its oncology business to unlisted French drugmaker Servier for $2.4 billion. The deal suggests there is value... More »
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Warburg Pincus LLC [WP.UL] is in talks to invest in a fundraising round for China’s Ant Financial Services Group [ANTFIN.UL] expected to be worth at least $8 billion, people with knowledge of the matter said. The New York-based private eq... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Micro Focus shares surged on Thursday, with traders citing a Bloomberg report that hedge fund Elliott Management has taken a stake in the UK software firm. The shares jumped as much as 12 percent to their highest in a month before swinging b... More »
BOSTON (Reuters) – Folger Hill Asset Management, a hedge fund run by former SAC Capital Advisors LP executive Sol Kumin, will merge with Schonfeld Strategic Advisors after a period of sluggish returns. “It became clear that the best path forward for the Folger... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. exchange operator CME Group has made a $5.5 billion offer to buy NEX Group to create a cross-border powerhouse for investors trading in the multi-trillion dollar foreign exchange and government debt markets. Shareholders in NEX, a finan... More »
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian billionaire Vladimir Potanin’s Interros Holding said it had completed the purchase from businessman Roman Abramovich of a 2 percent stake in Norilsk Nickel, which has been the subject of a legal battle. Abramovich struck a provisiona... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Citadel, one of the world’s largest hedge fund managers, has cut staff by more than 30 percent in one of its stock-picking units in what several people with direct knowledge of the layoffs described as a surprise move. From late February t... More »
FILE PHOTO: Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett waits to play table tennis during the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting weekend in Omaha, Nebraska, U.S. May 7, 2017. REUTERS/Rick Wilking/File Photo (Reuters) – A giant hurricane, earthquake or other conflagra... More »
((This Feb. 22 story corrects paragraph 4 to clarify NBIM’s partnership with Crown Estate)) By Noor Zainab Hussain and Esha Vaish (Reuters) – The sovereign wealth fund of Norway bought a 245 million pounds ($342 million) stake in British property group Shaftes... More »
FILE PHOTO: A view shows Saudi Aramco’s Wasit Gas Plant, Saudi Arabia December 8, 2014. Saudi Aramco/Handout/File Photo via REUTERS LONDON (Reuters) – It’s the burning question in the oil industry: when will Saudi Arabia pull the trigger on the Aramco stock ma... More »
FILE PHOTO: The logo of commodities trader Glencore is pictured in front of the company’s headquarters in Baar, Switzerland, November 20, 2012. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/File Photo TORONTO/MELBOURNE (Reuters) – As shareholders push the world’s cash-rich miners to ... More »
FILE PHOTO: Jennifer Salke, president NBC Entertainment, speaks at the Hollywood Radio and Television Society Newsmaker Luncheon featuring the TV network entertainment presidents in Beverly Hills, California October 11, 2011. REUTERS/Fred Prouser (Reuters) – A... More »
A Dell gaming computer is shown at the E3 2017 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, California, U.S. June 13, 2017. REUTERS/ Mike Blake (Reuters) – U.S. computer maker Dell Technologies Inc is exploring a range of options that could see the world’s la... More »
A logo of Fujitsu Ltd. is pictured at the CEATEC JAPAN 2017 (Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies) at the Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan, October 2, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai (Reuters) – Japan’s Fujitsu Ltd said on Friday it was in talks about selling i... More »
FILE PHOTO – William Ackman U.S. on November 10, 2015. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo NEW YORK (Reuters) – Billionaire investor William Ackman said on Thursday that his hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management made a new bet on sportswear company Nik... More »
FILE PHOTO: A logo of Toshiba Corp is seen on a printed circuit board in this photo illustration taken in Tokyo July 31, 2012. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao/File Photo TOKYO (Reuters) – Toshiba Corp is considering an IPO of its prized memory chip business if an agreed ... More »
FILE PHOTO: The logo of SoftBank Group Corp is displayed at SoftBank World 2017 conference in Tokyo, Japan, July 20, 2017. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo TOKYO (Reuters) – SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) said on Monday it was considering listing its Japanese wirel... More »
FILE PHOTO: A journalist takes picture of Xiaomi’s new mobile phone Mi Max at its launch in Beijing, May 10, 2016. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/File Photo HONG KONG (Reuters) – Xiaomi has tapped CLSA, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley as joint sponsors for its propos... More »
FILE PHOTO: A logo of Ant Financial is displayed at the Ant Financial event in Hong Kong, China November 1, 2016. REUTERS/Bobby Yip/File Photo BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Ant Financial Services Group has received approval to issue consumer credit-backed securi... More »
FILE PHOTO: The logo of SoftBank Group Corp is displayed at SoftBank World 2017 conference in Tokyo, Japan, July 20, 2017. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo BERLIN (Reuters) – German used-car dealing platform Auto1 said a 460 million euro ($561 million) financial ... More »
FILE PHOTO: Marijuana is seen for sale at Harborside, one of California’s largest and oldest dispensaries of medical marijuana, on the first day of legalized recreational marijuana sales in Oakland, California, U.S., January 1, 2018. REUTERS/Elijah Nouvelage/F... More »
FILE PHOTO: A woman exits the Viacom Inc. headquarters in New York, U.S. on April 30, 2013. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo (Reuters) – Viacom Inc (VIAB.O) and CBS Corp (CBS.N) are not in active merger discussions, although controlling shareholder Shari Redst... More »
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German residential property developer Instone Real Estate is targeting a flotation on the Frankfurt stock exchange in March, adding to a growing pipeline of spring listings in Germany, people close to the matter said. The company is worki... More »
FILE PHOTO – Nelson Peltz founding partner of Trian Fund Management LP. speak at the WSJD Live conference in Laguna Beach, California October 25, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo NEW YORK (Reuters) – Billionaire investor Nelson Peltz has a message for Ameri... More »
The Kodak logo is shown on a booth during the 2017 CES in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., January 6, 2017. REUTERS/Steve Marcus SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Shares of Eastman Kodak Co (KODK.N) more than doubled on Tuesday after the one-time leader in photography became ... More »
BOSTON (Reuters) – A handful of hedge funds ended 2017 with double digit returns, their investors said, at a time the $3 trillion industry took in fresh money and posted its best returns in years, industry data show. Activist hedge fund Marcato Capital Managem... More »
FILE PHOTO: Brokers trade at their computer terminals at a stock brokerage firm in Mumbai, India, February 17, 2016. REUTERS/Shailesh Andrade MUMBAI/HONG KONG (Reuters) – Funds raised in India through share sales reached the most in a decade this year thanks t... More »
The logo of German real estate company Vonovia SE, a member of the German DAX-30 stock market index, is seen at a Vonovia building in Essen, western Germany May 10, 2016. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay/File Photo FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Germany’s Vonovia (VNAn.DE) has ... More »
A sign marks a building housing Oracle offices in Burlington, Massachusetts, U.S., June 21, 2017. REUTERS/Brian Snyder Sydney (Reuters) – Australia’s Aconex Ltd (ACX.AX) said on Monday it had received a A$1.56 billion ($1.2 billion), or A$7.80 in cash-per-shar... More »
FILE PHOTO: A logo of Siemens is pictured on a building in Mexico City, Mexico, May 16, 2017. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido/File Photo FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Siemens said it has agreed to buy Luxembourg-based Fast Track Diagnostics to boost its molecular-testing offer... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – British car dealership Pendragon (PDG.L) is to sell its U.S Motor Group business after concluding a strategic review following a profit warning, it said on Monday. The firm, which warned on profit in October due to a fall in demand for new c... More »
FILE PHOTO: A sign to the campus offices of chip maker Broadcom Ltd, who announced on Monday an unsolicited bid to buy peer Qualcomm Inc for $103 billion, is shown in Irvine, California, U.S., November 6, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo (Reuters) – Chipmak... More »
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro looked to the world of digital currency to circumvent U.S.-led financial sanctions, announcing on Sunday the launch of the "petro" backed by oil reserves to shore up a collapsed economy. More »
FILE PHOTO – Paul Tudor Jones, founder and chief investment officer of Tudor Investment Corporation, speaks at the Sohn Investment Conference in New York, May 5, 2014. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz BOSTON (Reuters) – Paul Tudor Jones, one of Wall Street’s most promine... More »
Earphones are seen on a tablet screen with a Spotify logo on it, in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, February 20, 2014. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Photo – S1BETDCCQSAB (Reuters) – The music group of China’s Tencent Holdings Ltd and Sweden’s Spotify AB are in talks... More »
FILE PHOTO: Elon Musk, founder, CEO and lead designer at SpaceX and co-founder of Tesla, speaks at the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition II in Hawthorne, California, U.S., August 27, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake (Reuters) – Elon Musk-led SpaceX has raised $100 mill... More »
FILE PHOTO: Cans of beer move along a production line at a factory of Saigon Beer Corporation (Sabeco) in Hanoi, Vietnam June 23, 2017. REUTERS/Kham/File Photo SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Vietnam’s biggest brewer Sabeco SAB.HM has received a strong response from pot... More »
FILE PHOTO: A man arrives at the Uber offices in Queens, New York, U.S., February 2, 2017. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] plans to move ahead with a deal to bring in Japanese technology co... More »
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Swiss specialty chemicals company Clariant is seen at the company’s headquarters in Pratteln, Switzerland October 29, 2017. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann ZURICH (Reuters) – Clariant (CLN.S) on Friday rejected its largest shareholder White Tale’... More »
An employee works inside an office of Rovio, the company which created the video game Angry Birds, in Shanghai June 20, 2012. REUTERS/Aly Song/Files HELSINKI (Reuters) – Angry Birds maker Rovio Entertainment (ROVIO.HE) fell short of market expectations for qua... More »
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Toshiba Corp is seen as window cleaners work on the company’s headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, February 14, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai/File Photo TOKYO (Reuters) – Toshiba Corp’s plan to raise some $5.4 billion through a sale of new shares w... More »
BARCELONA/LONDON (Reuters) – Vivendi’s Universal Music Group (UMG) could be worth more than $40 billion, Chief Executive Arnaud de Puyfontaine said on Friday, helping to buoy shares in the French media group after third-quarter results in which UMG was a highl... More »
FILE PHOTO: The logo of commodities trader Glencore is pictured in front of the company’s headquarters in Baar, Switzerland, July 18, 2017. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/File Photo LONDON (Reuters) – London hedge fund giant Lansdowne Partners lost $100 million from a ... More »
A proposal by the U.S. Senate to change the way shares in startup companies are taxed incited panic and dread in Silicon Valley on Monday, with startup founders and investors warning of nothing less than the demise of their industry should the proposal become ... More »
The U.S. unit of the French insurer AXA has filed for an initial public offering (IPO), according to a U.S. regulatory filing on Monday. More »
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The former chairman of fund manager Man GLG and the ex-president of Vornado Realty Trust are behind a buyout vehicle that will seek deals in the real estate and hospitality sectors, according to marketing materials seen by Reuters on Thursday. More »
Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) is cutting prices of products from third-party sellers on its website, moving beyond its more typical method of discounts on items it sells directly. More »
Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] said on Friday it hired a new chief legal officer to guide the company through its many legal quandaries, filling one of the crucial vacancies in its leadership. More »
China's central bank has sent queries to some banks to gauge market demand for two-month reverse repurchase agreements, a person with knowledge of the matter said on Thursday, as fresh worries about liquidity buffeted its financial markets. More »
Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO.O), the world’s largest networking gear manufacturer, is nearing a deal to buy U.S. telecommunications software firm BroadSoft Inc (BSFT.O) for close to $2 billion, a person familiar with the matter said on Sunday. More »
China Literature Ltd, China's largest online publishing and e-book company, launched an initial public offering for up to $1.1 billion on Monday, seeking funds for acquisitions and to expand its digital publishing business. More »
Activist investor William Ackman, currently battling for board seats at Automatic Data Processing Inc (ADP.O), on Thursday said the human resource software company should buy rival Ceridian, in a move that could woo customers with a better product. More »
State-owned Saudi Aramco has asked FTI Consulting (FCN.N) to suspend its investor relations advisory work related to the oil company's planned initial public offering, people familiar with the matter told Reuters. More »
Shares of Switch Inc, which provides data center services to Amazon, eBay and JP Morgan among others, rose as much as 45 percent in their market debut on Friday, giving the company a market capitalization of more than $5.6 billion. More »
The board of Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL], including two new appointees of former Chief Executive Travis Kalanick, will meet on Tuesday to consider proposals that diminish the co-founder's influence, strip early investors of supervoting power and secure a m... More »
Angry Birds maker Rovio Entertainment's shares got off to a flying start on the Finnish firm's stock market debut. More »
Software startup Slack Technologies Inc said it raised $250 million from SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) and other investors in its latest funding round, boosting the company's valuation to $5.1 billion. More »
U.S. hedge fund Elliott Management Corp said on Monday it has a stake of just over 5 percent in Hitachi Kokusai Electric (6756.T), further complicating a stalled bid by U.S. buyout firm KKR & Co LP (KKR.N) to acquire the company. More »
ZhongAn Online Property and Casualty Insurance Co Ltd, China's first internet-only insurer, secured Hong Kong stock exchange approval for its planned initial public offering which could raise more than $1 billion, sources with direct knowledge of the deal said... More »
The maker of hit mobile phone game "Angry Birds" is planning an initial public offering to raise around 30 million euros ($36 million) and potentially use its shares to make acquisitions. More »
Britain's Aveva Group said on Tuesday it had agreed to combine with Schneider Electric's software business to create a London-listed leader in industrial software worth more than 3 billion pounds ($3.88 billion). More »
Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd (HKEX) (0388.HK) is still in talks with oil giant Saudi Aramco, with the bourse's planned IPO investment link with China key to clinching the potential listing, Chief Executive Charles Li told Reuters on Tuesday. More »
Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] officially welcomed its new Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi, who has led online travel business Expedia Inc for 12 years, in a note sent to employees of the world's biggest ride-services company late on Tuesday. More »
Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] said on Tuesday it was cooperating with a preliminary investigation led by the U.S. Department of Justice into possible violations of bribery laws. More »
The Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] board of directors said on Sunday it had voted on its pick for a new chief executive officer, but declined to disclose its choice publicly until informing employees. More »
Shares of India's Infosys Ltd fell as much as 4.6 percent on Monday to a near three-year low, slumping for a second consecutive session, after brokerages including Nomura downgraded the stock following the resignation of its chief executive. More »
China Unicom's $11.7 billion ownership reform plan does not violate rules, the nation's securities regulator said, helping shares in the telecom group's units surge as they resumed trade on Monday after speculation that the deal was under scrutiny. More »
Egypt's Beltone Financial will launch a $1 billion investment fund in fixed income instruments in September, its chief executive officer told Reuters on Monday. More »
Saudi Arabia favours New York for the main foreign listing of state oil giant Aramco, even though some financial and legal advisers have recommended London as a less problematic and risky option, people familiar with the matter told Reuters. More »
Ride-services company Uber is facing a divided board of directors and angry shareholders after investor Benchmark Capital filed a lawsuit against the company's ousted chief executive, Travis Kalanick, dealing another blow to the firm as it struggles to recover... More »
FILE PHOTO: Apoorva Mehta, CEO of Instacart speaks during 2016 TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, California, U.S. September 14, 2016. The bloom is off seed funding, the business of providing money to brand-new startups, as investors take a more measured app... More »
FILE PHOTO: Headphones are seen in front of a logo of online music streaming service Spotify in this February 18, 2014 illustration picture. Spotify now has 60 million paying subscribers, adding 10 million subscribers in less than five months, a spokeswoman fo... More »
FILE PHOTO – A woman photographs a banner for Snap Inc. on the facade of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on the morning of the company’s IPO in New York City, NY, U.S. March 2, 2017. MSCI Inc has proposed leaving shares of Snap Inc (SNAP.N) and other compan... More »
The sign outside the Wells Fargo & Co. bank in downtown Denver April 13, 2016. Britain’s Equiniti Group Plc said it would buy Wells Fargo & Co’s share registration business for $227 million as it looks to enter the United States, the largest and most active sh... More »
Razer Inc, a gaming hardware maker backed by Intel Corp and Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, plans to go public toward the end of October in an IPO that will value the company at up to $5 billion, a person familiar with the deal said on Wednesday. More »
FILE PHOTO: Hosain Rahman, CEO and co-founder of Jawbone, speaks during the Samsung keynote with Jawbone products displayed in the background at the International Consumer Electronics show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada January 5, 2015. REUTERS/Rick Wilking Consum... More »
