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WASHINGTON – U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday told CBS that Congress needs to pass by the end of the month a bill that would give Ukraine …

(Reuters) – London’s West End focused commercial landlords Capital & Counties Properties Plc and Shaftesbury Plc are in advanced talks about a 3.5 billion pound ($4.32 billion) merger, Sky News …

(Reuters) – Canada’s Commissioner of Competition intends to oppose Rogers Communications Inc’s proposed C$20 billion ($16 billion) merger with Shaw Communications Inc, the companies said in a statement early Saturday. …

By Niket Nishant (Reuters) -Bausch + Lomb was valued at $6.48 billion in its U.S. market debut on Friday as the eye-care company’s shares opened nearly 3% above an offer …

By Gram Slattery and Roberto Samora RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil’s Petrobras posted a first-quarter net income that beat forecasts on Thursday, just minutes after Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro railed …

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Energy intends to commit $2.25 billion for projects to store carbon dioxide underground and help fight climate change, it said on Thursday. The funding …

By Simon Jessop and Tommy Wilkes LONDON – Financial institutions face losses of at least $225 billion from risks related to water, with a third of them doing nothing to …

By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – Stanford University received $1.1 billion, its largest ever gift, from venture capitalist John Doerr to fund a new school focused on climate change, fueling a …

BRUSSELS – EU competition regulators on Wednesday approved a 11-billion-euro ($11.58 billion) German scheme to help companies hit by sanctions against Russia, similar to those proposed recently by other EU …

(Reuters) -Exxon Mobil Corp said on Tuesday it will sell its Romanian upstream unit to gas producer Romgaz for over $1 billion as the oil major focuses its investment on …

By Promit Mukherjee and Emma Rumney JOHANNESBURG – Coca-Cola’s estimated $3 billion initial public offering (IPO) for its African bottling unit will likely take place in the third quarter after …

ROME – Italy on Monday approved a new stimulus package worth 14 billion euros ($14.71 billion) to shield firms and families from the economic impact of the war in Ukraine, …

NEW YORK – The U.S. Treasury said on Monday it expects to pay down $26 billion in debt the second quarter, down from a January borrowing estimate of $66 billion, …

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS – Alphabet unit Google on Monday urged Europe’s second-highest court to dismiss a 1.49-billion-euro ($1.6 billion) fine imposed by EU antitrust regulators three years ago …

(Reuters) – Brazilian lender Itau Unibanco said on Friday it has acquired an 11.36% stake in brokerage XP Inc for around 8 billion reais ($1.61 billion). The deal does not …

(Reuters) – Chilean copper producer Codelco posted on Friday a first quarter pre-tax profit of $1.521 billion, a 7% decrease from the year-ago period. The state-owned company’s quarterly production totaled …

NEW YORK – The International Monetary Fund on Friday approved a $9.8 billion Flexible Credit Line (FCL) for Colombia, which the South American country said will be treated as “precautionary,” …

(Reuters) – Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk sold about 5.23 million shares in the electric vehicle maker, worth about $4.5 billion, in multiple open market sales on April …

By Tom Hals (Reuters) – Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover of Twitter is helping provide ammunition for an upcoming trial where an investor will argue the CEO’s $56 billion pay …

FRANKFURT – German car parts supplier Continental said on Friday it expects energy, logistics and materials cost to rise by 3.5 billion euros ($3.7 billion) this year due to COVID-19 …

(Reuters) – Videogame publisher Activision Blizzard Inc said on Thursday that its shareholders approved Microsoft Corp’s $68.7 billion proposal to buy the “Call of Duty” maker. More than 98% of …

By Julie Zhu and Scott Murdoch HONG KONG – Plans by Full Truck Alliance Co Ltd, China’s ‘Uber for trucks’, to raise $1 billion in a Hong Kong listing this …

ZURICH – The Swiss National Bank reported a first quarter loss of 32.8 billion Swiss francs ($33.75 billion), the central bank said on Thursday, as lower bond prices and the …

By Joey Roulette and David Shepardson WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders asked lawmakers to delete language from a bill that would fund development of a new lunar lander for …