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Corona owner invests another $4 billion in cannabis producer Canopy

Corona beer maker Constellation Brands will infuse another $4 billion into Canada’s top cannabis producer Canopy Growth, the biggest investment in the industry, to capitalize on booming dema...

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Exclusive: Standard Chartered sells principal finance business to Actis and ICG

Standard Chartered is in talks to sell its private equity business to Intermediate Capital Group, a source with direct knowledge of the deal said on Monday, as part of a broader disposal of...

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Nissan to invest $900 million on new assembly plant in China: Nikkei

Japan’s Nissan Motor Co will spend around $900 million to build a new auto assembly plant in China that will increase production capacity in the company by 30 percent, the Nikkei newspaper r...

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Qatar plans to invest billions of dollars in Germany

Qatar plans to invest billions of dollars more in Germany and will broaden its focus to the country’s medium-sized companies, business newspaper Handelsblatt said in a report due to be publi...

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Goldman Sachs secures $1.5 billion sale, leaseback of London HQ

Goldman Sachs said on Wednesday it had sold its new, unfinished European headquarters in London to South Korea’s National Pension Service for 1.17 billion pounds ($1.49 billion) before movin...

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Oil and gas company Santos buys competitor Quadrant Energy for $ 2.15 billion

Macquarie Group and Brookfield Asset Management sold their assets to an Australian company

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Canada's Barrick Gold to buy Randgold for $6.5 billion

Canada’s Barrick Gold Corp has agreed to buy Randgold Resources Ltd in an all-stock deal valuing the Africa-focused miner at $6.5 billion, to create the world’s largest gold producer in an i...

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(Updated) Michael Kors Buys Fashion Label Versace for $2.2 Billion

Kors changes name to Capri as it becomes a house of brands. Donatella Versace will continue to lead creative direction.

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Volkswagen to invest $4 billion to build digital businesses, software

Volkswagen will invest 3.5 billion euros ($4 billion) by 2025 to build digital businesses and products including a cloud computing-based platform to connect vehicles and customers to offer s...

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Enbridge to buy Spectra Energy for $3.3 billion

Enbridge Inc, Canada’s largest pipeline operator, said on Friday it would buy its U.S. master limited partnership Spectra Energy Partners for a sweetened deal of $3.3 billion.

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Murdoch's Fox Corp to buy fintech Credible Labs in $397 million deal

U.S. broadcaster Fox Corp. on Monday agreed to buy Credible Labs Inc. in a deal valuing the online finance broker at $397 million, as the Murdoch-controlled firm hunts for growth following t...

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Mastercard to buy part of payments company Nets for $3.19 billion

Payments processor Mastercard Inc (MA.N) said on Tuesday it would buy a majority of the corporate services businesses of Scandinavian payments group Nets for about 2.85 billion euros($3.19 b...

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Salesforce to buy Israel's ClickSoftware for $1.35 billion

U.S. cloud-based service provider Salesforce (CRM.N) agreed to buy U.S.-Israeli software developer ClickSoftware for $1.35 billion in cash and shares, in a bid to accelerate growth of its cl...

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Barrick Gold plans to sell Tongon gold mine in Ivory Coast - BBG

Barrick Gold Corp. is looking to sell its Tongon gold mine in the Ivory Coast and is working with Bank of Nova Scotia to identify buyers, Bloomberg said here on Thursday.

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Porsche family seeks iPO buyout after tearful defeat

More than a decade after Porsche's billionaire clan said goodbye to their crown jewel, the family is set to regain a more direct influence over the sports car maker.

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Toyota to invest about $500 million in Uber for driverless cars

Toyota Motor Corp will invest about $500 million in Uber Technologies Inc to jointly work on developing driverless vehicles, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familia...

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China's BAIC buys 5% Daimler stake to cement alliance

China’s Beijing Automotive Group Co Ltd (BAIC) has bought a 5% stake in Daimler (DAIGn.DE), cementing their long-standing alliance after China’s Geely emerged as a potential rival by also ta...

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Amazon in talks to buy stake in India's Reliance Retail

Amazon.com Inc. is in talks with Reliance Industries Ltd’s retail unit to buy a stake in India’s biggest brick-and-mortar retailer, two sources with knowledge of the talks told Reuters on Fr...

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PayPal to invest $500 million in Uber: Refinitiv IFR

Online payments company PayPal Holdings Inc plans to invest $500 million in Uber Technologies Inc as the ride-hailing firm readies to unveil terms for its initial public offering on Friday,...

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China's Geely building new plant to make 250,000 bigger-sized cars: sources

China’s Geely is building a new plant to produce a quarter of a million bigger-sized cars that will help meet a goal of selling more than 2 million vehicles by 2020 and power its growth, two...

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