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...Patrick McGee in Frankfurt Agribusiness megadeals under scrutiny The future contours of the industry providing farmers with seeds and crop chemicals will be decided in 2017....
...Wesfarmers has not commented on the future of the UK investment plans although media reports said chief executive Richard Goyder deemed the sector “resilient”....
...John Nallen, Fox’s chief financial officer – and the financial architect of the now expired proposal – brought in JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank to handle the debt financing....
...‘The allegations by Mr Budde were previously raised with Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc and its non-management directors in the spring of 2008....
...After a stint at the BBC’s corporate strategy unit under Lord Birt, he became an adviser to Mr Blair on media, telecoms and the internet and was an architect of the Communications Act behind the 2003 launch...
...Four months after hiring Deutsche Bank to carry out a strategic review at Virgin Atlantic, the number of parking stands available for a suitable merger looks limited....
...German carrier Lufthansa rose 2.1 per cent to €11.48, while in Dublin, Aer Lingus climbed 3.7 per cent to €0.73 and Ryanair was up 1.3 per cent to €3.80....
...From Reuters: Chinese search engine Baidu Inc shares jumped 16.8 percent to $451.50 in premarket trade on Wednesday as rival Google Inc threatened to quit operations in China, warnings...
...But for Josef Ackermann, the most prominent of the Mannesmann six, the real battle is over the future of Deutsche Bank and his position as chief executive....
...However, bargain hunters sensed an opportunity among some of the casulties of the recent sell-off, helping Deutsche Lufthansa up 4.7 per cent to €13.73, while Beiersdorf, maker of nivea skin cream, gained...
...Air France-KLM fell 1.4 per cent to €16.61 and Lufthansa eased 0.4 per cent to €13.79. But the oil and gas sector itself edged higher as US benchmark oil futures hit $73 a barrel....
...Lufthansa, which reported a 0.4 per cent rise in traffic, shed 3.2 per cent to €14.33, while Ryanair dropped 2 per cent to €7.38....
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