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Berkshire slashes Wells Fargo, JPMorgan stakes- adds Barrick Gold

(Reuters) – Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKa.N) said on Friday it has sold shares of some of the largest U.S. banks, slashing its stakes in Wells Fargo & Co (WFC.N) and JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) and exiting an investment in Goldman Sachs Group I... More »

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Saudi information security firm Elm to acquire Tabadul

DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi information security company Elm is to acquire digital services company Tabadul from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, Elm said in a statement on Sunday. The Public Investment Fund (PIF) also owns Elm and was considering an initial ... More »

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Qualtrics float would be ‘win-win’ proposition: SAP CEO

BERLIN (Reuters) – SAP’s (SAPG.DE) plans to float online sentiment tracking business Qualtrics would be a “win-win” proposition, CEO Christian Klein said on Monday, as the business software group confirmed its second quarter results and guidance. SAP would ret... More »

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Mednax CEO, board directors replaced amid settlement with Starboard

BOSTON (Reuters) – Healthcare services company Mednax’s (MD.N) stock price closed up nearly 4% on Monday after its founder and chief executive and several board members were replaced, half a year after activist investor Starboard Value began pressing for chang... More »

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Ackman’s blank check company raises IPO target to $4 billion

(Reuters) – Pershing Square Tontine Holdings Ltd, the blank check company backed by billionaire investor Bill Ackman, has increased the size of its initial public offering by $1 billion to $4 billion, the largest ever IPO by a special purpose acquisition compa... More »

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Sony to take full control of listed financial arm for $3.7 billion

TOKYO (Reuters) – Sony Corp (6758.T) will turn its financial arm, Sony Financial Holdings Inc (8729.T), into a wholly owned unit through a tender offer worth about 400 billion yen ($3.72 billion), the Japanese electronics and entertainment giant said on Tuesda... More »

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WeWork directors seek to preserve right to sue owner SoftBank

(Reuters) – A special committee of WeWork board members filed a motion in Delaware on Monday to prevent it from being disbanded, as it pursues legal action against majority owner SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) over an abandoned $3 billion tender offer for the of... More »

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Ferrari slowed by coronavirus, but not driven off course

MILAN (Reuters) – Luxury sports car maker Ferrari (RACE.MI) still expects to make more than $1 billion in core profit this year, providing a relative beacon of stability in an auto industry ravaged by the coronavirus crisis. The company, known for its red Form... More »

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Norwegian Air could soon run out of cash unless debt plan approved

OSLO (Reuters) – Norwegian Air (NWC.OL) could run out of cash by mid-May unless its proposed financial rescue plan is approved by creditors and shareholders, the budget carrier warned on Monday. If approved by bondholders, leasing companies and shareholders, t... More »

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Microsoft to divest AnyVision stake, end face recognition investing

(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp on Friday said it would sell its stake in AnyVision, an Israeli facial recognition startup, and said it no longer would make minority investments in companies that sell the controversial technology. The decision marks a policy change... More »

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Buffett calls for more accountability for corporate directors

(Reuters) – Warren Buffett on Saturday called on corporate America to make their boards of directors more accountable to shareholders and less beholden to chief executive officers, perhaps by reducing their pay and requiring that they buy more stock. In his an... More »

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Timeline: NMC Health’s expansion and ailments

(Reuters) – NMC Health (NMC.L) said on Monday its founder BR Shetty had resigned as joint non-executive chairman, months after the UAE healthcare group was thrown into turmoil by doubts over its finances. NMC is the largest private healthcare company in the Un... More »

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William Hill names DS Smith’s Adrian Marsh as CFO

(Reuters) – British bookmaker William Hill (WMH.L) on Monday named cardboard maker DS Smith’s (SMDS.L) Chief Financial Officer Adrian Marsh as its finance head. Marsh will join William Hill later this year, taking over from Ruth Prior whose departure was annou... More »

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Valaris settles with Luminus, hands board seat to hedge fund

BOSTON (Reuters) – Oil drilling firm Valaris PLC reached a settlement with Luminus Management and said on Monday that it has appointed one of the hedge fund’s partners to its board. Luminus’ Adam Weitzman, an expert in offshore oil drilling who has experience ... More »

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Walmart sacks 56 executives in India as part of restructuring

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Walmart Inc, the world’s largest retailer, has fired 56 of its executives in India as it restructures in the country. The move underscores the challenges Walmart has faced in expanding its wholesale business in India. The Bentonville, Ark... More »

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ABN Amro names PwC’s former Dutch chairman as new CEO

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – ABN Amro (ABNd.AS) said on Thursday that Robert Swaak, a former chairman of accounting firm PwC in the Netherlands, is to succeed Kees van Dijkhuizen as the Dutch bank’s chief executive. Swaak will take over from Van Dijkhuizen at the com... More »

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Roche enters $1.15 billion licensing deal for Sarepta gene therapy

ZURICH (Reuters) – Roche (ROG.S) entered into a $1.15 billion licensing agreement with Sarepta Therapeutics (SRPT.O) to obtain the right to launch and commercialize Sarepta’s investigational gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) outside the United... More »

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Toshiba to extend tender offer period for NuFlare until Jan. 16

TOKYO (Reuters) – Toshiba Corp said on Monday it would extend the period of its tender offer for chip equipment unit NuFlare Technology Inc until Jan. 16. The extension of the offer, from the originally set Dec. 25, was requested by NuFlare to give its shareho... More »

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France’s Sanofi to buy biotech firm Synthorx for $2.5 billion

PARIS (Reuters) – Sanofi (SASY.PA) said on Monday it had agreed to buy California-headquartered biotechnology firm Synthorx in a cash deal worth about $2.5 billion aimed at beefing up the French drugmaker’s pipeline of drugs for cancer and auto-immune disorder... More »

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Morgan Stanley fund offer for PNE too low: shareholders group SdK

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners’ (MS.N) offer for PNE (PNEGn.DE) which values the German renewable firm at 306 million euros ($337 million) is too low, small shareholders group SdK said on Tuesday. The 4.00 euro per share bid runs ... More »

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U.S. Mayo Clinic partners with Abu Dhabi to operate hospital

ABU DHABI (Reuters) – Abu Dhabi has partnered with U.S. non-profit organization Mayo Clinic in a joint venture to operate one of the largest hospitals in the United Arab Emirates as it seeks to become a regional hub for world-class healthcare. State-owned Abu ... More »

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Gojek CEO quits to join Indonesian cabinet, replacements named

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Gojek CEO and co-founder Nadiem Makarim said on Monday he had resigned to join Indonesia’s cabinet, and the ride-hailing and payments company said two senior officials would jointly take over running operations of the $10 billion firm. Pres... More »

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De Benedetti plans relaunch of Italian publisher GEDI: newspaper

MILAN (Reuters) – Carlo De Benedetti, at odds with his three sons over the fate of Italy’s GEDI (GEDI.MI), publisher of the La Repubblica and La Stampa newspapers, plans a two-stage relaunch of the firm including investment in digital, he said in an interview ... More »

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Italy’s Del Vecchio calls on Mediobanca to grow through M&A

MILAN (Reuters) – Mediobanca’s third-biggest investor Leonardo Del Vecchio called for it to get bigger through acquisition on Friday, stepping up his questioning of the Italian merchant bank’s strategy. The 84-year-old billionaire bought a 7% stake in Medioban... More »

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Factbox: U.S. lawsuits take aim at vaping

(Reuters) – Several deaths and potentially hundreds of illnesses tied to e-cigarettes, which allow users to inhale nicotine vapor, often flavored, without smoking, have been reported by U.S. health agency. Lawsuits on behalf of young consumers have been filed ... More »

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Exclusive: Grab in talks to merge Indonesian payment firms to…

JAKARTA (Reuters) – SoftBank-backed ride hailer Grab is in talks to merge OVO, an Indonesian digital payments firm in which it owns shares, with an Ant Financial-backed local peer to build heft and power ahead of archrival Gojek, people familiar with the matte... More »

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ABB’s largest shareholder pleased with new CEO appointment

ZURICH (Reuters) – ABB’s (ABBN.S) largest shareholder Investor AB (INVEb.ST) is pleased with the appointment of Bjorn Rosengren as the new chief executive of the engineering group, the Swedish investment company said on Monday. “We welcome the appointment of B... More »

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Deal-hungry Takeaway.com delivers $10 billion Just Eat takeover

LONDON/AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Amsterdam-based online food delivery firm Takeaway.com (TKWY.AS) has agreed to buy Just Eat (JE.L) in an all-share deal valuing the combined group, which will be one of the sector’s largest, at about 8.2 billion pounds ($10.1 billi... More »

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Elliott outspends rivals as corporate activism turns to Germany

FRANKFURT/BOSTON (Reuters) – Elliott Management Corp has invested more than rivals in its push for corporate change so far this year and there has been an increasing focus among activist investors on German companies. Elliott, Paul Singer’s $35 billion hedge f... More »

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HomeStreet defeats activist Roaring Blue Lion in proxy contest

BOSTON (Reuters) – HomeStreet Inc defeated Roaring Blue Lion Capital Management’s campaign to unseat one director and install its own candidate, ending a two-year standoff between the financial services company and the activist investor, the company said on Th... More »

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Ocado sows $22 million ‘vertical farming’ seed to diversify

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Ocado is plowing 17 million pounds ($22 million) into the emerging “vertical farming” industry, further diversifying the online grocer and technology group’s business. Vertical farming involves producing food indoors, with crops gr... More »

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Uniper chairman calls for signal from Fortum to resolve dispute

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Uniper’s chairman on Sunday said talks with major shareholder Fortum to resolve a dispute between the two companies were on hold after two of the German utility’s board members resigned. Fortum and Uniper have been at loggerheads since th... More »

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Soros Fund Management increases stake in Tesla convertible bonds:…

(Reuters) – Billionaire George Soros’ investment firm, Soros Fund Management Llc, raised its stake in Tesla Inc’s (TSLA.O) convertible bonds due in 2021 by 17.5 million convertible bonds to 37.5 million convertible bonds as of the end of the first quarter, acc... More »

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Buffett’s Berkshire unveils $861 million Amazon stake

(Reuters) – Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc said it owned $860.6 million of Amazon.com Inc shares at the end of March, after the billionaire admitted to underestimating the online retailer and its Chief Executive Jeff Bezos. The size of the investment ... More »

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Mitsubishi plans $1.4 billion rescue for plant engineering firm…

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese trading house Mitsubishi Corp and MUFG Bank plan to rescue plant engineering company Chiyoda Corp with a $1.4 billion lifeline, betting on a turnaround fueled by greater LNG demand, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Monday. Chiyoda, o... More »

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Exclusive: Advent readies new $2.2 billion Latam private equity…

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – U.S. private equity firm Advent International Corp is preparing to launch a $2.2 billion fund to invest in Latin American companies, two people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The fund launched in coming days will be Advent’s s... More »

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Sports Direct opposes any Debenhams plan that wipes out equity

LONDON (Reuters) – British sportswear group Sports Direct said any restructuring option pursued by Debenhams that could result in no equity value for the department store group’s shareholders “is not a workable solution”. Debenhams said on Friday it was seekin... More »

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Warren Buffett says Berkshire overpaid for Kraft Heinz

(Reuters) – Warren Buffett said on Monday his Berkshire Hathaway Inc overpaid in the 2015 merger that created Kraft Heinz Co, but he had no plans to flee the struggling packaged foods company. Buffett spoke four days after Kraft Heinz took a $15.4 billion writ... More »

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Aramco amps up in South Korea with $1.6 billion bet on refiner…

SEOUL (Reuters) – State-owned Saudi Aramco plans to invest up to $1.6 billion for a nearly 20 percent stake in South Korean refiner Hyundai Oilbank, expanding its foothold in one of its biggest Asian buyers of crude oil. Saudi Aramco is already the biggest sha... More »

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U.S. lifts sanctions on Rusal, other firms linked to Russia’s…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration on Sunday lifted sanctions on aluminum giant Rusal and other Russian firms linked to oligarch Oleg Deripaska, defying a Democratic-led push in the U.S. Congress to maintain the restrictions. E... More »

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Rusal chairman resigns as part of deal to lift U.S. sanctions-…

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Aluminum giant Rusal said on Monday Jean-Pierre Thomas had resigned as chairman and director of the company as a pre-requisite for a decision by the United States to lift sanctions on the company. Shares in Hong Kong-listed Rusal jumped m... More »

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Hedge fund Tiger Global ended 2018 with a 13.6 percent gain

BOSTON (Reuters) – Investment firm Tiger Global Management, which oversees $23 billion in assets, told investors its hedge fund gained 13.6 percent last year. Tiger Global’s hedge fund invests some $8 billion in assets and gained 0.9 percent in December. That ... More »

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Green Growth to launch hostile bid for pot producer Aphria

(Reuters) – U.S. cannabis retailer Green Growth Brands Ltd (GGB.CD) said on Thursday it would make a hostile takeover bid for Aphria Inc (APHA.TO) in an all-stock deal valuing the Canadian pot producer at C$2.8 billion ($2.06 billion). Several companies are lo... More »

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Papa John’s adopts rights plan to limit founder’s stake

(Reuters) – Papa John’s International Inc (PZZA.O) on Sunday adopted a shareholder rights plan, or a “poison pill”, with a 15 percent trigger to deter existing stockholders from amassing a controlling stake in the company. The company also declared a dividend ... More »

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Blackstone wins EU approval to buy Thomson Reuters unit

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – U.S. private equity firm Blackstone Group (BX.N) has secured EU antitrust approval to acquire a majority stake in Thomson Reuters’ (TRI.TO) Financial and Risk unit, the European Commission said on Monday. The EU enforcer said it did not se... More »

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Japan’s Takeda gains U.S. approval for $62 billion Shire buy

TOKYO (Reuters) – Takeda Pharmaceutical Co Ltd on Tuesday said it has received U.S. approval for its $62 billion acquisition of London-listed Shire Plc, taking the Japanese firm one step closer to its goal of becoming a global top 10 drugmaker. Takeda in a pre... More »

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Blackstone sees scope for Italian deals despite political strife

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Alternative asset manager Blackstone Group LP (BX.N) is still open to doing deals in Italy despite political turmoil in the euro zone country, President and Chief Operating Officer Jon Gray said on Wednesday. “Sure. It’s a function of pric... More »

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Australia’s Santos gets final sweetened $10.8 billion bid from…

(Reuters) – U.S.-based Harbour Energy made a final offer of $10.8 billion for Australia’s Santos Ltd (STO.AX) on Monday, hiking its bid for a fifth time in nine months after a steep rise in oil prices and potentially deterring any rival bids. Shares in the oil... More »

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French government urges Air France to pursue reforms as strikes bite

PARIS (Reuters) – The French finance minister on Sunday raised the pressure on Air France managers and unions to resolve a stand-off over wages, saying the government would not ride to the carrier’s rescue as it grapples with worker strikes and a leadership va... More »

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Buffett owns 5 percent of Apple. He’d like to own 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 »

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Apple hits record high after Buffett’s Berkshire increases stake

(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 »

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Xerox says CEO, board to stay after agreement with Icahn, Deason…

(Reuters) – Xerox Corp (XRX.N) said on Thursday its current board and management team, which included Chief Executive Jeff Jacobson, will stay, after a settlement agreement it had reached with dissenting shareholders to oust them expired. Xerox had said on Tue... More »

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Tyson Foods backs Israeli startup to grow meat in the lab

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Tyson Foods (TSN.N), the largest U.S. meat processor, has invested in an Israeli biotech company developing a way to grow affordable meat in a laboratory that takes live animals out of the equation. Future Meat Technologies focuses on pro... More »

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Deutsche Telekom sees T-Mobile-Sprint deal clearing anti-trust…

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Deutsche Telekom (DTEGn.DE) CEO Tim Hoettges expressed confidence on Monday that the $26 billion takeover of Sprint Corp (S.N) by its U.S. unit T-Mobile US (TMUS.O) would clear anti-trust hurdles. Hoettges, speaking after the all-stock de... More »

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South Korea says to join forces to normalize GM’s Korea unit

SEOUL (Reuters) – The South Korean government said on Monday it would join forces to help normalize General Motors Co’s South Korean unit. The government said in a statement that it respected a tentative wage deal struck between the company and the union. Sour... More »

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Elliott adds voice to calls for Whitbread break-up

(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 »

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Carl Icahn sells Tropicana casinos in $1.85 billion deal

(Reuters) – Hedge fund manager Carl Icahn is cashing out of casino business Tropicana Entertainment Inc (TPCA.PK) in a deal selling most of its properties and operations for $1.85 billion, Icahn Enterprises and the companies involved said in statements on Mond... More »

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Micro Focus shares jump on report Elliott takes stake

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 »

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Analyst View: China’s Xi promises to open economy, lower tariffs

SYDNEY/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday promised to open the country’s economy further and lower import tariffs on products including cars, in a speech that struck a conciliatory tone on the rising trade tensions between China and t... More »

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Toyota, Suzuki to produce cars for each other in India

TOKYO (Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) and Suzuki Motor Corp (7269.T) agreed on Thursday to produce cars for each other in India as Toyota aims to increase its market share in the world’s fifth-largest passenger car market. The agreement follows an R&D t... More »

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Concerns over Hyundai Motor Group overhaul rattle Mobis investors

SEOUL (Reuters) – Worries that Hyundai Motor Group’s planned restructuring will benefit the controlling family ahead of some shareholders have hit Hyundai Mobis Co Ltd (012330.KS), which is set to be the group’s de facto holding firm, sending its shares sharpl... More »

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Embattled Abraaj frees private equity investors from capital…

FILE PHOTO – Arif Naqvi, Founder and Group Chief Executive of Abraaj Group attends the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, January 17, 2017. REUTERS/Ruben Sprich NEW YORK/DUBAI (Reuters) – Embattled private equity firm Abraa... More »

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BlackRock says outside commentaries on index funds could pose risk

FILE PHOTO: The BlackRock logo is seen at the BlackRock Japan headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, October 20, 2016. REUTERS/Toru Hanai/File Photo NEW YORK (Reuters) – BlackRock Inc, the world’s largest asset manager, on Wednesday said that commentary by third partie... More »

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Geely covets Daimler tech with $9 billion stake, shares surge

FILE PHOTO: Li Shufu, founder and chairman of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, attends the Volvo’s S90 news conference in Shanghai, China November 2, 2016. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo HONG KONG/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd’s (0175.HK) shares... More »