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Imperial Oil to sell Esso brand gas stations to Canadian distributors

Imperial Oil has entered into an agreement to sell its 497 Esso retail fuel stations for about C$2.8 billion. This transaction reflects the company's aim to widen its refining and oil sands businesses.


Whole Foods Plans For Solar Systems In A Bid To Reduce Utility Expenses

Whole Foods has been witnessing tremendous pressure from rival super market chains offering specialty and organic foods at lower prices. Solar providers supply power at reduced prices compared to commercial power tariff. To cope up with the market competition, Whole Foods has reached agreement with SolarCity and NRG for installation of solar systems in its several outlets.

US Imposed Sanctions on ZTE Corp for Export Violation to Iran

U.S. Commerce Department puts export restriction on ZTE for violating export restriction to Iran. Starting Tuesday, ZTE will not be able to acquire U.S. products without export license

Perry Capital Delays In Investment Eyeing Another Credit Event Like 2008

Perry Capital has recently invested $1 billion in investment grade bonds. The investment firm possesses a hedge fund of $10 billion and prepared to make investment. But Perry Capital leader Richard Perry waits for the suitable moment of investment.


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Money manager Jeffrey Gundlach foresees the possibility of Standard& Poor's 500 index moving two percent upside and 20 percent downside. He considers the recent rebound in the market as a 'bear market rally.'
Statoil Energy Ventures announced its first investment worth at about US$3 million in United Wind. The fund plans a total investment of $200 million in wind energy over a period of 4 to 7 years.
It's a race for Toshiba Medical Unit between Canon, Fujifilm Holdings, Konica Minolta and Permira Holdings. Nikkei said Canon has the highest bid amounting to $6.2 billion. Whoever the winner is, will be decided on Wednesday.
The volume of Philadelphia's venture capital (VC) investments is showing a mixed pattern. Though VC investment grew in 2015 when compared with investments in 2014, the fifth largest city in the US has attracted venture capital investment less than its due share of total funding.
Cisco Systems Inc is investing $500 million in Germany and $150 million in Slack Technologies Inc. The technology major is working closely with German public sector companies on technology projects and the government in formulating technology policies.
Drug makers Sanofi and Merck & Co. will part ways by the end of the year sealing their partnership for the European vaccines joint venture. Sales has been declining and both companies agreed it is better if they were better off running their own businesses.
Member of Dunkin' Donuts's reward program in Rhode Island Massachusetts can now enjoy a mobile ordering service via "Dunkin VIP" mobile app, available for iOS devices. The company is seeking to roll out the program nationally and is collecting consumer data to achieve that goal.
Atlas Solution, a subsidiary of Facebook on Monday confirmed to cancel plan to integrate buying platform to its advertising platform. Bots and low quality ads has been the main reason.
Hyperloop, a high-tech futuristic transportation system initiated by Elon Musk, is now in progress with the help of crowdsourced teams formed after Musk open-sourced its blueprint. The technology will be tested this summer at SpaceX headquarters and is expected to be operating by 2020.
Long reluctance to e-commerce have delayed Costco operation to fully utilize the power of Internet retail. However, it seems the company has to start further the initiative as slow growth in Q2.