Pathology business Australian Clinical Labs Ltd. has made an all-stock offer for larger rival Healius Ltd. worth A$1.58 billion ($1.1 billion) that would create the largest player in the country as the industry struggles in the wake of Covid-19.
The Bank of England is expected to push through yet another increase in interest rates, one of the key events set to shape a turbulent week for the UK economy and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
Britain’s property owners are continuing to bump up asking prices despite fears of a slump in the housing market, a survey showed.
Staff at Teleperformance are still reviewing TikTok’s most disturbing content, including child sexual abuse, despite the company’s pledge to exit the business following shareholder backlash last year.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is expected to seek India’s assistance to forge a broader and stronger coalition to punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine when he meets Narendra Modi on Monday, adding pressure on New Delhi to choose between major world democracies and a key supplier of energy and weapons.
Newcleo, a company developing small nuclear reactors powered by radioactive waste, has started a plan to raise as much as 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion).
The Chinese president’s trip to Russia marks his most ambitious effort yet to weigh into Europe’s bloodiest conflict since the Second World War.
Currency markets fluctuated after Switzerland brokered a rescue of Credit Suisse Group AG, with traders weighing the deal’s impact on the Federal Reserve’s monetary-tightening path.
Oil steadied at the week’s open as the world’s most powerful economies took aggressive steps to contain the worst global banking crisis since 2008, bolstering the allure of risk assets including commodities.
President Vladimir Putin flew into the occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol in Donetsk. The unannounced trip, which wasn’t planned in advance, came hours after he visited Crimea for “reunification” events marking the 9th anniversary of Russia’s annexation of the peninsula.
