On Tuesday, the Taiwanese firm Yageo stated its subsidiary is set to acquire the US electronic component manufacturing and design company Pulse Electronics in a $740M cash deal.
On Tuesday, Germany's investment house ATON stated it had raised its stake in Murray & Roberts, the South African builder, to nearly 40%.
Emirates NBD has clinched a deal worth $3.19B to acquire Turkey's lender Denizbank from Russia's Sberbank, which would be its largest ever acquisition.
As the Sony and EMI deal announced this morning goes through, Sony was set to become the world's largest music publisher.
The prices for crude oil increased on Tuesday morning, as the price per barrel for Brent oil was nearing the $80 mark.
Sony is set to acquire control of EMI Music Publishing in a deal valued at $2.3B, as the tech firm seeks to bolster entertainment content assets, shifting away from the low-margin consumer electronics.
On Monday, Amazon.com stated it had hired the former NBC executive Vernon Sanders to help the company run its TV productions, appointing him as the co-head of television.
The Governor of Bank of Japan on Tuesday announced that the bank will announce the end of ultra-easy policy when rules for reaching the bank's price goal are made more robust.
The President of the US recently signed a congressional resolution, which overhauls a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's rule that was aimed at baring discrimination in auto lending.
The New York Stock Exchange has appointed Stacey Cunningham as the president of the Chief Operating Officer.
Representatives of the US and China are near to closing a deal, which would lift the sales ban set on Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE Corp.
The Governor of the Bank of Japan Haruhiko Kuroda stated that the Bank is set to take into consideration the side effects of easy monetary policy.
Adobe Systems stated that it is likely to purchase Magento Commerce, the provider of e-commerce services, form private equity company Permira for $1.68B in cash.
The US online lender for small businesses Kabbage announced plans to launch payment services by the end of this year, in a bid to diversify and compete directly with Square and PayPal.
Micron Technology stated that it is set to buy back up to $10B of the company's shares or nearly 16% of its market value, making the biggest ever buyback of memory chip maker.
The President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Patrick Harker said raising inflation in the US should result in two or three more hikes by the Fed this year.
The French government is set to absorb around €35B in debt of the state railway operator SNCF amid reforms in the company, the newspaper Les Echos reported on Monday.
Oil prices reached new multi-year highs on Monday in response to raising concerns about tighter oil supply from Venezuela and Iran.
On Monday, CEO of HMD Global Florian Seiche stated that a company which owns exclusive rights to use Nokia brand on cell phones has attracted $100M of investments to boost its growth in the nearest few years.
Netflix stated that the former President of the US Barack Obama and the former First Lady of the US Michelle Obama have signed an agreement with the streaming company to produce films, series and documentaries.
China is planning to end the limit imposed on the number of children in each family after decades of one-child policy due to the rapidly aging population and falling birth rates.
On Monday, Amazon executive claimed that a company is planning to expand its cloud operations service in Latin America after opening Amazon Web Services unit in Buenos Aires.
General Electric confirmed that the company was unloading the largest share of the transportation business, which makes engines for trains, to Wabtec Corp in a $11.1B worth deal.
Luxury Britain's car producer Aston Martin was still in the black in the March quarter of this year, though the company's pretax profit dropped amid weaker investments and US dollar.