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Manchester City owner to sell $500 million stake valuing itself at $4.8 billion: FT

The owner of English Premier League champions Manchester City is selling a $500 million stake to private equity firm Silver Lake, valuing the soccer club’s owner at $4.8 billion, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing people with knowledge of the deal.

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Rio Lifts Iron Ore Spending to $4 Billion on Firm China Demand

(Bloomberg) — Rio Tinto Group lifted its spending on new iron ore projects in Australia to more than $4 billion with the approval of a replacement mine at a key hub, providing a further sign of the industry’s confidence in demand led by China.London-based Rio will invest $749 million to bring the Western Turner Syncline Phase 2 project into production from 2021, according to a statement Wednesday. It will help extend the life of operations around the Tom Price mine, which began exporting in 1966.While the new project is aimed only at replacing output that’ll be lost from aging pits, …read more […]

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Musk won’t settle ‘pedo guy’ defamation lawsuit, lawyer says

An attorney for Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of electric car maker Tesla , said on Tuesday that his client had no intention of settling a defamation suit brought by a British cave explorer before the case goes to trial on Dec. 3. Vernon Unsworth is suing Musk for calling him a “pedo guy” in one of a series of tweets. Musk posted the tweets after Unsworth accused Musk in a CNN interview of grandstanding by offering to help Unsworth’s diving team rescue 12 b

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UPDATE 2-FAA says it will be the sole issuer of new 737 MAX airworthiness certificates

The Federal Aviation Administration said on Tuesday it notified Boeing Co that the agency will be the only issuer of airworthiness certificates for all new 737 MAX planes, a role that it had shared with the aircraft maker in the past. The U.S. air regulator also repeated that it has not completed its review of the 737 MAX aircraft design changes and associated pilot training. …read more […]