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Diesel cheating inquiries widen to Renault and Fiat

January 13, 2017 by · Leave a Comment 

By Gilles Guillaume, Simon Carraud and Agnieszka Flak PARIS/MILAN (Reuters) – European carmakers were drawn into widening investigations into diesel emissions cheating on Friday, with French prosecutors examining Renault and British authorities seeking answers from Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV. Volkswagen's admission that some of its diesel vehicles were fitted with devices which hid their true level of emissions has sparked a global regulatory push to

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Bitcoin jumps above $1,000 for first time in three years

January 2, 2017 by · Leave a Comment 

By Jemima Kelly LONDON (Reuters) – Digital currency bitcoin kicked off the new year by jumping above $1,000 for the first time in three years late on Sunday, having outperformed all central-bank-issued currencies with a 125 percent climb in 2016. Bitcoin – a web-based “cryptocurrency” that has no central authority, relying instead on thousands of computers across the world that validate transactions and add new bitcoins to the system – jumped 2.5 percent to $1,022 on the…

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Chinese firms ordered to pay Disney, Pixar $194,000 for copying ‘Cars’: Xinhua

January 1, 2017 by · Leave a Comment 

A Shanghai court ordered two Chinese firms to pay Walt Disney Co and Pixar more than 1.35 million yuan ($194,440) compensation for copying parts of their hit movies “Cars” and “Cars 2”, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday. The ruling is the latest in a slew of intellectual property wins for large foreign firms, who have complained about widespread copyright infringement in China. Disney and Pixar took the Chinese firms to court saying the characters, titles and posters from local animation “The Autobots” were substantially similar…

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Iran seals $17 billion Boeing deal, close to Airbus order

December 12, 2016 by · Leave a Comment 

By Tim Hepher and Sami Aboudi PARIS/DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran signed a $16.6 billion deal for 80 Boeing passenger jets on Sunday and was said to be close to another for dozens of Airbus planes to complete what would be the biggest package of firm contracts with Western companies since Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution. The deal between IranAir and U.S. planemaker Boeing includes 50 narrow-body 737 MAX aircraft and 30 long-haul 777s, split equally between the 777-300ER, which is badly in need of an order boost, …

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Japan’s Honda ties up with ride-hailing service Grab

December 12, 2016 by · Leave a Comment 

Southeast Asian ride-hailing service Grab disclosed on Monday that Japan's Honda Motor Co had invested in the firm, as part of a $750 million funding announced previously, to collaborate on motorbike-hailing services. …

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France’s Amundi to buy Pioneer from UniCredit for $3.75 billion

December 12, 2016 by · Leave a Comment 

French fund management company Amundi is to buy asset manager Pioneer from Italian bank UniCredit for 3.55 billion euros ($3.75 billion), and will finance the deal with a debt and equity issue. The deal is one of various disposals being pursued…

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Starbucks, Amazon pay less tax than a sausage stand, Austria says

September 4, 2016 by · Leave a Comment 

Multinationals like coffee chain Starbucks and online retailer Amazon pay less tax in Austria than one of the country's tiny sausage stands, the republic's center-left chancellor lamented in an interview published on Friday. Chancellor Christian Kern, head of the Social Democrats and of the centrist coalition government, also criticized internet giants

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Medivation agrees to open its books to Sanofi

July 6, 2016 by · Leave a Comment 

San Francisco-based Medivation shares jumped as much as 4.2 percent after Reuters first reported that Medivation and Sanofi were in talks over a confidentiality pact, adding to similar agreements Medivation has with Pfizer Inc and Celgene Corp , which have also expressed interest in an acquisition. The move comes after Medivation rejected Sanofi's $9.3 billion offer in April, prompting Sanofi to embark on a campaign to convince Medivation shareholders to oust Medivation's

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Exxon CEO back at Russia shindig after hiatus over Ukraine: sources

June 14, 2016 by · Leave a Comment 

By Denis Pinchuk MOSCOW (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil Chief Executive Rex Tillerson is to attend a major investment forum in Russia this week, two industry sources said, ending a two year absence from the event that began when sanctions were imposed on Russia over the crisis

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ConAgra Foods stock seen rising 30 percent: Barron’s

May 29, 2016 by · Leave a Comment 

ConAgra Foods' stock could climb up to 30 percent in the coming months as the U.S. packaged food company seeks to shed businesses, improve existing brands and achieve lower overheads, Barron's said in its …

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