Industry
Japan's Nikkei buys Financial Times for $1.3 bn from Pearsons
24 Jul 2015
The acquisition of Financial Times is the biggest by the Japanese media group, which had to outbid Germany’s biggest news publisher Axel Springer AG to clinch the deal
UPS in talks to buy Coyote Logistics for $1.8 bn
23 Jul 2015
Thoratec Corp accepts US heart device maker St Jude Medical's $3.4-bn offer
22 Jul 2015
The deal will accelerate St. Jude Medical’s growth strategy by adding Thoratec’s complementary products and technologies to its own portfolio of heart failure products
Horizon Pharma raises offer to buy Depomed to $33 per share
22 Jul 2015
Irish biopharmaceutical company Horizon Pharma Plc yesterday raised its offer to buy smaller US rival Depomed Inc to $33 per share in abid to nearly double its drugs portfolio
Oil steadies after Monday’s rout as dollar slips
21 Jul 2015
Last week, the International Energy Agency had projected that global oil demand growth would slow next year to 1.2 million barrels per day (bpd) from 1.4 million this year - far lower than needed to balance growing stocks
Pearson explores sale of Financial Times daily newspaper
21 Jul 2015
Pearson was sounding out possible bidders for the Financial Times and a sale may value the 127 year-old newspaper at £1 billion
SunEdison to buy Vivint Solar for about $2.2 bn
21 Jul 2015
Xiaomi unveils smart water purifier in India
20 Jul 2015
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HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
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Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
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Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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