U.S. cable company Comcast took control of Sky on Tuesday after it acquired the 39 percent of the company owned by Twenty-First Century Fox, the rival it defeated with a $40 billion knock-out bid for the European pay-TV group last month.
Global asset manager Bain Capital’s specialty finance arm on Tuesday filed for an initial public offering, seeking to list on the New York stock exchange under the symbol “BCSF”.
The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq rose on Tuesday, boosted by a rebound in technology stocks, but gains, including on the blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average, were kept in check by concerns on slowing global growth.
Ford is building an electric delivery van in Europe using technology provided by Deutsche Post startup StreetScooter, as German cities clamp down on diesel emissions.
U.S. stocks opened lower on Tuesday, pressured by rising yields and after the International Monetary Fund cut its global growth forecasts, squarely blaming the Sino-U.S. trade war.
U.S. authorities are investigating whether Standard Chartered breached Iran-related compliance rules as recently as 2013, a year after it settled with them over earlier allegations of breaches and pledged to improve internal controls.
Ireland’s data protection regulator said on Tuesday that it would seek more information from Alphabet Inc’s Google regarding a security issue that may have exposed the data of at least 500,000 users to hundreds of external developers.
Microsoft Corp said on Tuesday its expanded Azure cloud service to help government clients save data on their own servers would be available by the end of the first quarter of 2019, as it battles with Amazon.com for a $10 billion Pentagon contract.
Proxy advisory firm Glass Lewis had recommended shareholders vote in favour of Unilever’s proposed move to the Netherlands before the plan got scrapped last week.
Qualcomm Inc said on Tuesday it named Martin Anstice, chief executive officer of chip gear maker Lam Research Corp, and Irene Rosenfeld, former chairman and CEO of U.S. snack foods company Mondelez International Inc, to its board.
European stocks were sucked back into the red on Tuesday, as a four-day global selloff took Asia to a 17-month low and left Wall Street on course to equal its longest losing streak of the year.
European Union nations will seek a compromise on Tuesday over how ambitious to be on cutting vehicle emissions and climate goals for U.N. talks, with Germany warning that targets that are too tough risk harming industry and costing jobs.
Energy companies are betting demand for natural gas will rise at break-neck pace for decades, undermining warnings that tackling climate change would require a rapid switch to renewable energy.
International and Dutch unions filed a complaint with a global trade body on Tuesday accusing Chevron Corp. of funneling billions of euros through letter box companies in the Netherlands to avoid taxation.
European Union countries are on the verge of agreeing to start negotiations with the United States to allow more U.S. beef into Europe, in what could be a major move to defuse transatlantic trade tensions.
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