(Reuters) -Aon said on Wednesday it will sell the majority of NFP’s wealth business to private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners in a deal valued at about $2.7 billion. (Reporting by Manya Saini in Bengaluru; Editing by Shinjini Ganguli)
By Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) -Topshop, the British fashion brand that set trends in its early 2000s heyday, will return to high streets across the country in John Lewis department stores next year, the companies said on Wednesday. A selection of Topshop pieces including denim, jackets and wardrobe staples will be available in 32 John …
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Berlin (Reuters) – Der Automarkt in Deutschland schwächelt trotz eines Anstiegs im August weiter. Insgesamt wurden zwar im abgelaufenen Monat mit 207.229 Autos fünf Prozent mehr verkauft als vor einem Jahr, wie aus Daten des Kraftfahrt-Bundesamtes hervorgeht, die am Mittwoch veröffentlicht wurden. Seit Jahresauftakt schrumpfte die Zahl der Neuzulassungen jedoch um 1,7 Prozent auf knapp …
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By Elvira Pollina and Klaus Lauer MILAN/BERLIN (Reuters) -MFE-MediaForEurope has secured a stake of above 70% in ProSiebenSat.1 following its takeover bid for the German broadcaster, sources close to the matter told Reuters on Wednesday. The takeover is part of wider push by MFE, controlled by Italy’s Berlusconi family, to create a European ad-funded TV …
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By Ju-min Park and Joyce Lee SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shook hands with the speaker of South Korea’s National Assembly, Woo Won-shik, in Beijing on Wednesday, Woo’s office said. The pair shook hands before the start of a military parade they were attending in China to celebrate the formal surrender …
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By Karen Freifeld and Wen-Yee Lee (Reuters) -Washington has revoked TSMC’s fast-track status for U.S. chip manufacturing equipment exports to its main plant in China – a move that comes days after revocations of the same privilege for South Korean chipmakers. Keen for China not to benefit too much from advanced American technology, U.S. President …
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September 3 (Reuters) -The euro zone economy kept expanding at a snail’s pace in August as weaker services growth offset improved manufacturing output, despite the first rise in overall new orders since May last year, a survey showed on Wednesday. The HCOB Eurozone Composite Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI), compiled by S&P Global, inched up to …
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Athen (Reuters) – Griechenland verschärft seinen Kurs in der Migrationspolitik. Das Parlament verabschiedete am Mittwoch ein Gesetz, das härtere Strafen für abgelehnte Asylbewerber vorsieht und Rückführungen in Heimatländer beschleunigen soll. In dem EU-Land kommen zwar nicht mehr so viele Menschen wie 2015 und 2016 an. Allerdings machten sich zuletzt mehr Einwanderer von Libyen aus auf …
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By Pratima Desai LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s financial watchdog has approached commodity trader Mercuria inquiring about its large London Metal Exchange aluminium holding, which has distorted prices for contracts with short maturities, two sources familiar with the matter said. No rules have been broken, but disruptions to the LME’s largest-volume market leave consumers in the transport, …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin said on Wednesday that German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s views on Ukraine peace talks should be disregarded after he made what Moscow called a series of “unfavourable” remarks about Russian President Vladimir Putin. Merz said in an interview with broadcaster ProSieben.Sat1 aired on Tuesday that Putin was “perhaps the most serious war …
