UK's Legal & General has closed a deal on Thursday to insure $5.73B of the historic pension liabilities of British Airways.
Canada's New Gold is considering a sale as the miner is facing operating challenges and rising development costs at its newly-built mine, sources familiar with the matter reported.
On Wednesday, France's Natixis stated it would sell a couple of specialised finance business lines to BPCE, the French cooperative lender and its owner, in a deal worth $3.1B.
Comcast Corp stated on Wednesday that the Sky shareholders would consider the bid from the US cable giant worth £14.75 per share until October 6.
HG Vora Capital Management has built a 4.9% stake in Caesars Entertainment, as the hedge fund seeks to push the US casino operator for divestitures or a sale of the company.
Meituan Dianping, China's online food delivery company, has raised $4.2B in the world's largest internet-focused initial public offering in four years, pricing the float nearly at the top of indicative range.
DNB and Nordea announced on Thursday they had agreed on a sale of 60% stake in the Baltic bank Luminor to Blackstone's private equity consortium in a deal valued at $1.16B.
Alejandro Diaz de Leon, the Governor of the Mexico Central Bank, stated that he anticipates inflation to be close to the bank's target of 3% in the 2020 first half.
Adobe Systems, the image-editing software maker, was in talks to buy Marketo, a cloud-based marketing software firm, according to sources familiar with the matter.
The British government and Barclays launched a fund to secure up to £1B in finance to small house-builders, aiming to tackle England's housing shortage.
Confidence among Japan's manufacturers slipped in the month of September from seven-month high seen in August, a Reuters poll revealed, a sign that the trade war between Beijing and Washington kept exporters on edge.
The RICS stated that house prices in London dropped last month at the fastest pace five months, though with relatively strong rise away from the South of England, indicating a broadly flat prospect overall.
Japanese core machinery orders firmly exceeded forecasts in July, bouncing back from the prior month's drop and firming up the view that capex would continue to expand and boost economic growth.
Oil prices decreased on Thursday, reversing strong gains from the prior session, with economic concerns raising doubts over the ongoing growth in fuel demand.
Hershey stated that the company would buy Pirate Brands from B&G Foods for $420M, providing the chocolate producer rights to snack brands such as Pirate's Smart Puffs, Booty and Original Tings.
China's fiscal revenue growth slowed to 4% year on year in August, a decline from the 6.1% growth in July, amid measures to cut fees and taxes, official data shows.
The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appointed Nicholas Haysom as the head of the UN peacekeeping mission in Somalia and as the special representative in the country.
The European Council should decide on meaningful migration policy and avoid improvised solutions, the European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker says.
Greece on Wednesday sold $944.66M of debt at the cost of 1.09%, the same rate as the previous issue, the Greek finance ministry reports.
On Wednesday, the US security regulator claimed that United Technologies Corp would pay $13.9M to settle charges regarding illegal payments to Indonesia, Azerbaijan, China, South Korea, Kuwait, Pakistan and Thailand.
On Wednesday, the US military officials claimed that Japan and the US have successfully tested Aegis, a new missile defence system developed by Lockheed Martin Corp.
On Wednesday, Macy's stated it was planning to hire 80K temporary workers for the upcoming holiday season, with nearly 24K seasonal workers to be employed at its US fulfilment centres.
The American investors Centerbridge and Blackstone are thinking over a $3.5B worth bid for the headquarters of Banco Santander in the Spanish capital of Madrid, sources reported on Wednesday.
China's conglomerate Fosun International is in talks to acquire UK-based commodities broker Marex Spectron, in a potential deal that could expand Fosun's portfolio, according to two industry sources.