General Electric Co. is planning to spin off parts of GE Capital through an initial public offering as it pursues its aim to cut the size of the business, Jeffrey Immelt, company's chief executive, said.

Belgium's Delhaize plans to make sale of its businesses in the U.S. as it aims at minimizing costs in the region.

Mexican real estate investment trust is set to have a total of 233 properties after it completes its acquisition of a Mexican property portfolio from U.S. Kimco Realty Corp. and its partner American industries for $600 million.

The Netherlands wants governments to keep majority holders in Urenco and plans sell to its $33 percent share in the facility

Spanish bank Caixabank could be selling its stake, which it paid for in 2008, in Grupo Finaciero Inbursa amid high provisions on bad loans.

Spanish lender Ibercaja reached deal to buy smaller bank Caja 3. (Photo : Reuters)Spain's central bank made green signal to the private capitalisation plans of banks Popular (POP.

Royalty Pharma lowered the acceptance threshold for its increased bid with $6.4 billion for Elan to 50 percent plus one share as it seeks enough support to acquire Elan, an Irish drug firm .

BTG is set to make two acquisitions to create interventional medicine business. (Photo : Reuters)Medical bills are culprit of more than 60 percent of U.

Hospitals team with medical research facilities to protect themselves against higher costs (Photo : Reuters)Hospitals with improved medical care for elderly patients, and reduced deadly errors are estimated to get millions of dollars under an incentive program that aims to cut overall Medicare costs.

Bank of Ayudhya Pcl saw its shares increased after a local newspaper reported that a financial market source said that Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) proposed to buy General Electric's stake in the Thai bank for 40 baht per share.

Clearwire Corp. has agreed on the buyout offer from Sprint Nextel Corp. despite disappointed minority shareholders .

VL Automotive, a venture between Former General Motors Co. executive Bob Lutz, China's Wanxiang Group and industrialist Gilbert Villarreal, is bidding to acquire Fisker Automotive through a prepackaged bankruptcy deal.

SoftBank Corp. aims to name a security director to the board of Sprint Nextel once it becomes successful in its proposed takeover bid.

VTB, Russia's second largest bank, decides to sell its 10 percent stake in Soceite Generale's Russian unit Rosbank

Petronas, whose real business name is Petroliam Nasional Bhd, offered higher price to buyout shipping company.

German media conglomerate Bertelsmann has said that it is making sale of a stake in RTL group. Germany's Bertelsmann has announced that it is planning to sell a stake in broadcasting company RTL Group worth as much as 1.

Randstad and USG People reached a deal in which the former will buy some of the latter's European operations for 20 million euros.

International Airlines Group said it will be buying 18 787 Dreamliners from Boeing, which faced over lithium-ion battery overheating concerns.

Vodafone shareholders are thinking about whether they should sell the entire company to Verizon or just sell its 45% stake.

Nationwide Financial has announced that it is acquiring 17 equity and bond mutual funds with $3.6 billion in assets from Union Bank's HighMark Capital Management.

Absolute Software agrees to a deal in which its software for tracking stolen devices will be embedded by Samsung's Galaxy phones.

Ireland’s Takeover Panel is urging United State's Royalty Pharma to firm offer for Irish drugmaker Elan by May 10.

Valeant increases its offer to acquire Obagi after Merz Pharma tops its previous offer last month. Cosmetics products maker Obagi Medical Products Inc.

Hess Corp. has announced that it is selling its Russian unit, Samara-Nafta, to LUKOIL in a $2.05 billion deal as activist investors besiege the company for a business change

Dubai's flagship carrier Emirates and Australia's Qantas Airways ltd.have announced their alliance which include an extension of their partnerships to include including ground services and catering

Shares in PT Visi Media Asia Tbk have increased dramatically following a buyout offer from Chairul Tanjung, the fifth richest man in Indonesia.

MetroPCS is urging its shareholders to approve its merger with Deutsche Telekom AG's unit T-Mobile USA Inc. amid criticisms.

Toronto-based Dominion Diamond Corp. said regulators have approved its plan to buy BHP Billiton's Ekati diamond operations in Northwest Territories, Canada.

The auto parts maker has dodged a proxy war with investors Oskie Capital Management LLC and Marcato Capital Management LLC by deciding to increase its share buyback program.

The proposed merger of MetroPCS Communications and T-Mobile owned by Deutsche Telekom AG appears to have more critics and oppositions in a bid to force Deutsche to offer sweet deal.