The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported on Thursday including Omnicom, General Motors, Deutsche Telekom, Devon Energy and others
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US Fed Reserve's bond-buying program only benefits the rich - report
Economic data obtained by International Business Times revealed that the USD80 billion bond-buying program of the US Federal Reserve had only benefited those who can afford to hold on to their investments.
BC Partners, Onex and American Securities vie for Ikaria - sources
Ikaria Inc is being fought over by BC Partners Ltd, Onex Corp and American Securities LLC, of which the bidding war could fetch up to USD 2 billion for the former, according to sources who were familiar with the matter.
SAP debating moves to cloud, may impact 2015 sales target
German enterprise software group SAP announced on Friday that it was debating internally whether to accelerate moving more of its business to the cloud, a quick change in its overall strategy that could have a small impact on its target to grow sales to more than EUR20 billion.
Private equity firms fuel consolidation of IT services and BPO in India
In a report, the Business Standard said private equity firms are a significant contribution to the consolidation of IT services and BPO sector in India. There were five private equity transactions closed this year that totaled USD1.13 billion in value.
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Sources name the Carlyle Group LP and a combined group from Danaher Corp and Blackstone Group LP to have successfully advanced to the final stage of sale negotiations for J&J's diagnostics unit
The scheduled $35.1 bilion tie-up of both advertising giants Omnicom and Publicis, would be pushed to mid-2014 as the latest date, as announced by both Chief Executives on Thursday.
Reforms made in the financial services industry through the retail distribution review or RDR implemented in January by a UK regulator has brought private equity to the arms of wealth managers, according to a report from Citywire.
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan and Federal Reserve Board Governor Jerome Powell will be among bank executives and regulators speaking at an industry conference in New York hosted by The Clearing House Association, which represents interests of the biggest commercial banks.
The United States could start missing payments on its obligations some time between March and June if lawmakers don't raise a legal limit on borrowing by early February, congressional analysts said on Wednesday.
Federal Reserve officials felt they could decide to start scaling back the U.S. central bank's massive asset purchase program at one of its next few meetings, provided this was warranted by economic growth, minutes of the Fed's October policy meeting showed.
One of the first things you usually do when meeting a new financial adviser is to answer a series of questions to determine how much risk you can stomach.
An article on Bloomberg provided its observations on how the stock rally had influenced the increasing number of initial public offerings on the Japan bourse starting this year.
According to China's Ministry of Commerce, investments from the European Union increased the most in the world's second largest economy in the first 10 months of the year.
