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Microsoft set to buy Minecraft maker
September 10th, 2014
Months after closing its $7 billion deal for Nokia’s handset business, Microsoft is eyeing another major acquisition. According to Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal, the company is near a deal to scoop up video game studio Mojang AB, ...
Is bigger better for ASEAN in a mega-regional world?
September 10th, 2014
Big-block trade agreements or ‘mega-regionals’, revolving around one or more major powers, are the latest trend in trade policy negotiations. ASEAN is involved in two: the American-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Chinese-led Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). But ...
OSB Daily Technical Analysis – Currency pairs
September 10th, 2014
OSB Daily Technical Analysis for September 10, 2014 EUR/USD pair found support close to the 1.2850 area only to turn back up and close positive for the day. The pair is oversold and might have put in a short ...
Phone Giants close to Joint Bid for Telecom Italia’s Brazil Unit
September 10th, 2014
América Móvil of Mexico, Oi of Brazil and Telefónica of Spain are coming together on a joint offer to buy Telecom Italia’s Brazil operations, TIM Participações, a person with close knowledge of the negotiations said on Tuesday. TIM’s market ...
Jack Ma, ‘capital-lite’ model impress at Alibaba’s Boston IPO event
September 10th, 2014
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has two major things going for it as it prepares for an initial public offering that could raise more than $21 billion: founder Jack Ma and a “capital-lite” business model. While corporate governance remains a ...
Hertz CEO steps down for accounting errors
September 9th, 2014
Mark Frissora has resigned as chief executive of Hertz Global Holdings Inc, citing personal reasons, as pressure from investors mounts following a series of accounting errors. Hertz’s shares rose as much as 5 percent after the No. 2 U.S. ...
GSK China consumer healthcare unit linked to DOJ probe in 2012
September 9th, 2014
A U.S. anti-bribery probe into GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK.L) touched on the firm’s Chinese consumer healthcare business in 2012, internal documents show, suggesting the drugmaker’s compliance problems in China could go wider than previously revealed. GSK confirmed it had conducted ...
Gold Remains Under $1260 on U.S. Dollar Strength
September 9th, 2014
Gold hovered near its lowest in three months on Tuesday after sharp overnight losses as the dollar traded at 14-month highs against a basket of major currencies, dimming the metal’s appeal as a currency hedge. Spot gold had slipped ...
Morgan Stanley to pay $95 million in U.S. mortgage-debt settlement
September 9th, 2014
Morgan Stanley (MS.N) has agreed to pay $95 million to resolve a lawsuit accusing the Wall Street bank of misleading investors in mortgage-backed securities in the run up to the 2008 financial crisis. The settlement, disclosed in court papers ...
Dollar sweeps higher, Japan shares shy from peaks
September 9th, 2014
The U.S. dollar held on to broad-based gains in Asia on Tuesday in a boon for shares of Japanese exporters but a burden for oil, gold and stocks in the energy majors. As the dollar finally broke to a ...
