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...The Internet of (Five) Things 1. Bravo for more buyoutsBuyout firm Thoma Bravo is looking to raise $35bn to continue its software spree, reports Antoine Gara....
...Shares in Qiagen, which has previously produced testing equipment used during the Sars and swine flu outbreaks, rose 1.2 per cent to €41.61 on Thursday, giving its equity a value of €9.4bn....
...Frankfurt-listed shares in Qiagen, which has a large operational presence in Germany, climbed 3.1 per cent to €41.97....
...Over 1,500 students are enrolled in the programme, over half of them from sub-Saharan Africa....
...Pimco , the $1.8tn bond manager, has bases in London and Munich and funds domiciled in Ireland and Luxembourg. It does not expect significant disruption....
...More than half of the $1.2tn worth of acquisitions in the first quarter — the fastest start to a year ever — have been worth in excess of $5bn....
...South Korea’s Kospi was down 1.4 per cent as Samsung Electronics fell 4.7 per cent. Japan’s Topix was off 0.2 per cent while Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 bucked the trend, edging up 0.1 per cent....
...In Portugal, adjusted earnings were down 1.3 per cent to €265m on a 3.1 per cent drop in revenue to €566m....
...Actavis Holdco U.S., Inc.; Actavis Pharma, Inc.; Ascend Laboratories, LLC; Apotex Corp.; Dr....
...Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.1 per cent while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng was off 0.1 per cent. Futures tip the FTSE 100 and the S&P 500 to open flat....
...Stocks in Hong Kong closed down 1.9 per cent, its biggest fall in two months, led by property companies, while havens such as US government bonds gained....
...The index tracking the greenback is down 0.1 per cent at 92.968, around its lowest level since May 2016. The euro is up 0.3 per cent at $1.1833, with the pound up 0.1 per cent at $1.3218....
...Westinghouse and CBI agreed at signing to a “target” balance sheet that called for Stone to have $1.2bn in net working capital at closing....
...Tesco’s adjusted operating profit was slightly better than expected at the start of the year, rising 30 per cent to £1.28bn. The group cut net debt by 27 per cent in the year, paying back £1.9bn....
...In total Philips expects to receive about $1.5bn in cash from the deal before tax and other costs are taken into account. It will retain a 19.9 per cent stake in the business....
...It lands a heavy blow on the semiconductor-to-nuclear conglomerate’s efforts to rebuild investor confidence after a 2015 accounting scandal in which the group admitted inflating its net profits by $1.3bn...
...previous evening that it could book "several billion dollars” of impairment losses on part of its Westinghouse nuclear business in the US — a key engine of Toshiba’s efforts to revive its fortunes after a $1.3bn...
...Group and Mizuho Financial were down between 1.9 per cent and 2.5 per cent....
...The Nasdaq biotech sector fell 3.6 per cent, pulling the broader Nasdaq Composite down 1 per cent....
...The press release noted debt financing would come from Goldman Sachs Bank USA and Goldman Sachs Lending Partners LLC. The bank also provided M&A advice to Thermo Fisher....
...“Bob dutifully replied that his firm’s policy was that he could not accept a gift worth more than $1,” Ariane recounts....
...Czech software company Avast Software is buying its rival AVG Technologies for $1.3bn, the two security software developers announced this morning....
...Endemol Shine’s recent shows include Humans, The Fall, MasterChef and One Born Every Minute, and its estimated revenues for 2014 were £1.5bn — significantly more than the next biggest independent European...
...The majority thought copper would be trading at $5,800 a tonne in a year’s time ($5,300 now); aluminium at $1,450 ($1,592); zinc at $2,000 ($1,833); nickel at $9,650 ($10,520) and tin at $16,000 ($15,900...
...Under Mr Crozier, ITV has continued this push, spending £1.4bn including future earn-outs to buy production companies in Europe and the US....
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