Canada's second-largest insurance firm Great-West Lifeco is considering to sell its insurance contracts portfolio worth as much as $2.0B, sources reported on Wednesday.
Yunji Weidian, China's e-commerce portal, has tapped investment banks for its planned initial public offering in the United States next year.
China's Dalian Wanda Group is thinking over cutting its stake in the world's biggest cinema operator AMC Entertainment Holdings, sources reported.
The Chinese group Anbang Insurance has hire JPMorgan to manage its sale of the Dutch insurance unit Vivavt worth up to $2.0B.
Tribune Media, the American TV station owner, has launched new sale talks, following a collapse of the $3.9B deal with Sinclair Broadcast Group, as it failed to receive the regulatory clearance.
On Thursday, Novartis announced it would sell its dermatology and generic oral solids parts of Sandoz US to the Indian firm Aurobindo Pharma in a deal wort $900M.
Ireland's overseas visitors spent a total of €2.27B in the first half of this year, up 8.5% compared with the 2017 same period, the report by the CSO showed.
Toyota Motor was recalling more than 1M Prius and C-HR compact crossover hybrid vehicles, from which 554K were to be recalled in Japan and 192K in the US, due to fire risk.
Pricing practices within the foreign-exchange unit of American Express was being probed by the FBI on pricing practices, sources familiar with the matter stated.
The UK drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline stated that it would cut nearly 650 jobs in the United States within a global restructuring program, which was announced in July.
Uber Technologies was on track for initial public offering next year and revealed no plans to sell the company's self-driving car research unit, Dara Khosrowshahi, the Chief Executive, stated.
Facebook stated on Thursday that it is set to build the first data centre in Asia in the country of Singapore, making more than $1B of investments.
The Finnish economy is likely to slow down in the next few years due to the weak performance of the global economy, shows data published by the Nordea Bank.
There are no signs of debt crisis in African countries, the president of the African Development Bank Akinwumi Adesina says.
The construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline kicked off in the Gulf of Finland on Wednesday, the project operator Nord Stream 2 AG says.
The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo plan to discuss the situation in Syria on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres asks the people of Mauritania for the peaceful conduct of elections in their country.
The members of the United Nations Security Council support the UN-led political process in Yemen, the statement released on Wednesday shows.
The State Councilor and Minister of National Defence Wei Fenghe met with Singapore's Chief of Defence Force Lieutenant-General Melvyn Ong to discuss military cooperation between two countries.
The Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe met with the senior Communist Party of China official Wang Huning after the 2018 Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation.
On Wednesday, Shinhan Financial Group announced it would acquire a 59.15% stake in its former South Korean unit Orange Life Insurance in a $2.06B deal.
Citi has won a tender to acquire the rest of the Israeli government 5.37% stake in the country's second biggest bank Leumi, according to the Finance Ministry report on Tuesday.
SS&C Technologies Holdings, the financial software company, is getting closer to a deal to acquire the data-sharing platform Intralinks, in its third significant takeover this year.
The US gambling unit of the betting firm William Hill has clinched a joint venture deal with Eldorado Resorts, the US casino operator, as the UK company seeks further expansion in the US market.