By the standards of sharper-elbowed markets, the recent dust-up between activist investor Strategic Capital and the Tokyo Stock Exchange is positively mild. For Japan’s historically sleepy stock ...

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The $33 billion offer to buy out Toyota Industries rests on shareholders acquiescing in effectively financing a large slug of the deal. As a shocking example of how to engineer around Japan’s ...

Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people worldwide every day. Reuters provides business, financial, ...

Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people worldwide every day. Reuters provides business, financial, ...

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The S&P 500’s surge to $51 trln comes in the face of a weakening labor market, presaging a drag on the US economy’s consumption engine. Investors seem to anticipate that bad news could lead to ...

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The porn-heavy platform is in talks to sell to a US investor group. An $8 bln valuation implies a lower multiple than the ...

BPCE, the Paris-based mutual, is buying Novo Banco for 6.4 bln euros. The valuation looks reasonable, and Lisbon seems on ...

Breakingviews provides financial professionals with unique agenda-setting insight on the major financial news stories as they break globally every day.

Breakingviews provides financial professionals with unique agenda-setting insight on the major financial news stories as they break globally every day.