Internet search company Google Inc bought a 5.94 percent stake in China’s Lenovo Group Ltd last month for $750 million, according to a disclosure on the Hong Kong stock exchange. Google acquired 618.3 …
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U.S. private equity firm Warburg Pincus has bought a majority stake in a European exchange traded fund provider, in a deal that will give the asset manager new funds to expand offerings and grow through …
Sacyr (SCYR.MC), the Spanish building company leading a consortium to expand the Panama Canal, said it risks losing $574 million in guarantees and advance payments if a spat over cost overruns at the multi-billion dollar project is not resolved. In an interview with Reuters, Sacyr Chairman Manuel Manrique on Friday played down the row and […]
Royal Dutch Shell’s (RDSA.L) 23.1 percent stake in Australian oil and gas group Woodside Petroleum (WPL.AX) is seen as more likely to be split up and/or sold to institutional shareholders than to go in one piece to a strategic buyer, bankers said. The holding, worth about $6.4 billion and left over from Shell’s abortive attempt […]
AstraZeneca has agreed to buy Bristol-Myers Squibb’s stake in a diabetes joint venture between the two drugmakers for an initial $2.7 billion plus up to $1.4 billion in additional payments. The move, announced …
The U.S. government sold its last shares in General Motors Co on Monday, leaving taxpayers saddled with a total shortfall of about $10 billion on the automaker’s 2009 bailout.
Brazilian oil company OGX, which is in bankruptcy and controlled by former billionaire Eike Batista, said on Monday that Malaysia’s Petroliam Nasional Bhd (PETR.UL) (Petronas) had rescinded a deal to buy a 40 percent stake in two of its oil blocks. OGX Petróleo e Gas Participações SAm said in a filing that it is analyzing […]
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc on Thursday disclosed a new $3.45 billion stake in Exxon Mobil Corp , after buying 40.1 million shares in the world’s largest publicly traded oil company.
The Dravidian parties — the DMK, the AIADMK, the MDMK of Vaiko — have been exerting disproportionate political pressure on central governments at all times over the issue of Sri Lankan Tamils. The Congress has been more vulnerable on this issue …
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