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UPDATE 1-Renault sales warning drags on European shares

French carmaker Renault dragged European shares lower on Friday, while the sharpest contraction in the Chinese economy in nearly three decades exacerbated worries about slowing global growth. Renault slumped 12.7% to lowest since 2013 after the company cut its full-year revenue and profit forecast amid a broad-based slump in auto sales. The fall put the wider auto and auto parts index on course for its biggest percentage drop in two-and-a-half weeks, and pulled the Paris index down 0.2%, lagging its European peers. …read more […]

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Marriott International Is Near Deal for Elegant Hotels

(Bloomberg) — Marriott International Inc. agreed to take over Elegant Hotels Group Plc in a transaction that will deepen the lodging giant’s reach into the Caribbean.Marriott International will pay 110 pence a share in cash for Elegant Hotels, a 57% premium to its Thursday close, according to a statement Friday that confirmed an earlier Bloomberg News report. That values the company at about 101 million pounds ($130 million), or $199 million including debt, the company said in the statement.Elegant Hotels shares gained as much as 56% in London trading Friday morning, the most on record. The deal is subject to …read more […]

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ING Vies With Credit Suisse for Oil Tycoon’s London Flats

(Bloomberg) — Two of Europe’s biggest banks want to seize oil trader Igho Sanomi’s London homes. Let the battle commence.ING Groep NV and Credit Suisse Group AG are vying for the Nigerian tycoon’s properties in Chelsea, Belgravia and Kilburn over $5 million in unpaid debts they allege is owed by his company Taleveras Energy. ING’s Brussels and Geneva branch is owed $2.2 million, ING lawyer Rupert Cohen said Wednesday in written submissions to a London court.Credit Suisse is owed about $3 million, according to a filing the lender made in April. The Swiss bank seized Sanomi’s private jet, Bloomberg reported …read more […]