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Singapore’s Global Logistic, GIC to invest $8.1 bn in US logistics portfolio
08 Dec 2014
Global Logistic is the leading provider of modern logistics facilities in China, Japan and Brazil
Merck & Co in talks to buy Cubist Pharmaceuticals for more than $7 bn
06 Dec 2014
Cubist Pharmaceuticals develops drugs for potentially life-threatening infections caused by dangerous bacteria categorised as serious and urgent public health threats
ICICI Bank to exit Russia with sale of banking unit to lender Sovcombank
06 Dec 2014
ICICI Bank, India’s largest private-sector lender, plans to sell its Russian subsidiary ICICI Bank Eurasia Limited Liability Company to Sovcombank, a mid-sized Russian bank, for an undisclosed sum
Canary Wharf owner Songbird rejects revised $4.07 bn bid from QIA and Brookfield
05 Dec 2014
London's prestigious Canary Wharf owner Songbird Estates today rejected a sweetened £2.6 billion bid from Qatar Investment Authority and Brookfield Property Partners
GSK abandons sale of older drugs portfolio
05 Dec 2014
QIA - Brookfield Property raise bid for Songbird Estates to £2.6 bn
05 Dec 2014
Qatar Investment Authority and Brookfield Property Partners yesterday raised their bid for London's prestigious Canary Wharf owner Songbird Estates to £2.6 billion
Barnes & Noble to buy Microsoft's 17% stake in Nook e-reader unit
05 Dec 2014
The largest US bookstore chain, Barnes & Noble Inc operates Nook, one of the web's largest e-commerce sites, which features more than two million titles for its electronic reader, Nook Bookstore
Australian broadcaster Ten Network attracts several prospective buyers
04 Dec 2014
Beleaguered Australian broadcaster Ten Network Holdings yesterday confirmed that several parties have shown interest in taking control of the group
Telenor and TeliaSonera to merge Danish operations into equal JV
03 Dec 2014
The merged entity will have a combined mobile subscriber base of around 3.5 million, market share of approximately 40 per cent, revenues of more than DKK 9 billion ($1.5 bn) and significant synergy potential
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
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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
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
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Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
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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