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U.S. retailer Walmart Inc
has decided to sell Japanese supermarket chain Seiyu and has
already approached major retailers and private equity funds, the
Nikkei business daily reported on Thursday.
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Broadcom Inc plans to acquire
U.S. business software company CA Inc in a $19 billion
deal aimed at diversifying Broadcom beyond semiconductors, but
Wall Street analysts were immediately skeptical.
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French insurer CNP,
which has been at the centre of recent merger speculation, said
its chief executive Frederic Lavenir had resigned for "personal
reasons" and added it was working on finding his successor.
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British Prime Minister Theresa
May will set out a blueprint on Thursday for what her government
calls "a principled and practical Brexit", putting at its core a
plan for a free trade area for goods that has angered many in
her party.
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Long dominated by deals
struck in secret, the $230 billion liquefied natural gas
industry is slowly seeing light as global traders push for more
transparency in the booming market.
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U.S. President Donald Trump’s former
campaign manager Paul Manafort may face evidence at trial about
alleged wrongdoing in the 1980s and lost a bid to stay at a jail
where he said he was being treated like a "VIP," court papers on
Wednesday showed.
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Comcast Corp on
Wednesday raised its all-cash offer for Britain's Sky
to $34 billion, topping a raised bid of $32.5 billion for the
pay-TV group from Rupert Murdoch's Twenty-First Century Fox
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Glencore Plc faces at
least two lawsuits by U.S. shareholders accusing the big
Anglo-Swiss mining company of having made false and misleading
disclosures before it received a subpoena in a corruption probe,
and its stock tumbled.
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A Brazilian Senate committee
investigating credit card interest rates on Wednesday
recommended that the central bank lift a ban on overdraft
protection and revolving credit fees, a move advocates say would
give lenders greater latitude to cut rates.
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Australian shares look to start lower on
Thursday, mirroring turmoil in global equity markets spurred by
prospects of a Sino-U.S. trade war.
Australian commodity stocks might bear the brunt of the fall
as oil and base metal prices also slumped after Washington
threatened to impose tariffs...