Takeda Pharmaceutical has won shareholder approval for its $59 billion takeover of London-listed Shire , creating a global powerhouse that has a stronger drugs pipeline but is also saddled with massive debt.
American International Group Inc has racked up an estimated $750 million to $800 million in catastrophe losses so far during the 2018 fourth quarter, its chief executive officer said on Wednesday.
Oil rose on Wednesday ahead of a meeting of the world’s biggest exporters who will discuss cutting output to help shore up prices and curb excess supply.
In a vast warehouse complex 40 miles north of London, staff are wrestling with ways to cram in more goods after a surge in demand from companies building stockpiles ahead of Brexit.
Russian oil producer Gazprom Neft will keep its plan to raise oil output by 50,000 barrels per day in 2019 regardless of the outcome of talks between OPEC and other oil producers, Alexander Dyukov, the company’s head, said on Wednesday.
OPEC and its allies led by Russia are discussing the idea of cutting oil output next year by reverting to production quotas agreed in 2016, Russia’s TASS news agency reported on Wednesday,
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he would soon give formal notice to the U.S. Congress to terminate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), giving lawmakers six months to approve a new trade deal between the United States, Mexico and Canada to replace it.
Pharmacy chain and benefits manager CVS Health Corp on Wednesday said as of Jan. 1 it will offer a new prescription benefit option guaranteeing its health plan clients 100 percent of any rebates, discounts or other fees paid by drugmakers.
Oil recouped some of its early losses on Wednesday, echoing a modest recovery in global equities, but concern about the outlook for global growth and evidence of yet more crude supply kept gains in check.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he believed Chinese President Xi Jinping was being sincere at their meeting on trade and that Beijing had been sending “strong signals” since then.
Brazilian investigators said on Wednesday that “top executives” of trading giants Vitol, Trafigura and Glencore had full knowledge that their employees paid millions in bribes to executives of state-controlled oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA in return for business.
Thumbing through a thick binder detailing European mid-sized and family-owned firms, JP Morgan’s Doug Petno has his sights set on a business Europe’s banks have kept to themselves.
Brazil prosecutors alleged on Wednesday that trading giants Vitol, Trafigura and Glencore paid over $30 million in bribes to employees at state-owned oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA in return for business.
Global stocks tumbled to one-week lows on Wednesday, as declines by long-dated U.S. bond yields and a renewal of trade concerns stoked fears of a downturn in the United States, the world’s largest economy.
Thomas Cook’s shares climbed 45 percent on hopes that it would not need to issue new equity, although its bond prices extended their losses to record lows on Wednesday, amid deepening worries about the UK travel group’s debt.
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