The government of Brazil divested its ownership stakes in two major airports to groups of multiple buyers as part of its strategy to improve the country's infrastructure in time for the World Cup.

The government of Finland would be opening a junk bond market to attract investors who are interested to gain higher yields in the best-rated nation in the Euro Zone.

Gold might not have been a great investment, which was evident in a Reuters report about John Paulson not making any additional investments on buillion as his PFR Gold Fund lost 63% this year so far.

The three-person management team of private limousine service Uber had severed ties with the company six months after the car service company launched its services in the capital of Germany.

Alpine Data Labs, creator of open source software framework named Hadoop, received USD16 million in new funding from investors including Sierra Ventures and Mission Ventures.

IK Investment Partners had sold its full ownership in Europe Snacks Group to a French private equity firm Apax Partners for an undisclosed amount and will be completed before the year ends.

As emerging markets were becoming too volatile for some bond and stock investors, a report said majority of them had turned to frontier markets to generate better returns.

The fate of the joint venture firm of Founder Securities and Credit Suisse have yet to be known after the former reveals its plans to sell its stake in the joint venture and merge with China Minzu Securities.

A flush of mergers and acquisitions was expected to come in as early as the end of the year, according to a report from financial news magazine Barron's.

The consolidation of US Bancorp Fund Services and Quintillion Limited would allow the former to expand its operations in Europe via its new strategic headquarters in Dublin.

The USD15 million in new investment Apartment List managed to raised in its recently-concluded Series A financing would go towards the efforts of making the platform more friendly to apartment renters.

Counterpoint Asian Macro Fund is a new macro fund established through a venture between former HSBC Holdings Plc economist Geoff Barker and City Financial Investment Co.

Three unnamed sources told Bloomberg that Deutsche Telekom AG was approaching to close the sale of its digital-classifieds business Scout24 Holding to Hellman & Friedman LLC for EUR2 billion or USD2.7 billion, including debt.

Roark Capital emerged victorious over rival bidders TriArtisan Capital Partners and Pamplona Capital Management to acquire restaurant group CKE Inc, which is the parent company of fast food chains Hardees and Carl's Jr.

The real estate loan portfolio GE Capital Real Estate acquired from Deutsche Postbank contained commercial property loans that had been backed against prime real estate located in central London, France and Germany.

The potential sale of the indices platform of Barclays, which includes the Barclays US Aggregate Bond Index, came at the heels of an approach by MSCI, an equity index provider, to acquire the index business.

Prior to meeting with UK's Members of the Parliament regarding claims that Royal Mail's shares in its initial public offering were undervalued, UBS issued a note to investors saying that they need to divest their shares in the postal service.

Sources told Bloomberg that the planned stock sale of India's top two mobile phone operator had postponed its original target completion this month, and was pushing for a stock sale next year.

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.

India's Department of Disinvestment, which oversees the divestment of ownership stakes of the state of India in several companies, were pushing for a float to happen to capitalize on the rally of stocks on the financial bourse.

According to the joint statement by MTR Gaming Group, Inc and Eldorado HoldCo LLC, the amendments of the merger agreement included increases in cash consideration, payment per share to MTR, of which will be funded by Eldorado.

TCAS Online, a student accommodation management systems provider based out of Dublin, Ireland, received EUR650,000 in fresh funding from private investors including Kernel Capital Partners.

Tekni-Plex, one of the largest specialty plastic films makers in North America, was acquired by private equity firm American Securities from two other private equity firms who had majority ownership stakes in Tekni-Plex for the last five years.

Index, a startup that provides software to enhance customer experience in physical stores, received USD7 million in Series A investment from investors including Innovation Endeavors, of which Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt is a co-founder.

Atomico's Fund III was intended to provide financial support to startups who are raising money via later-stage funding rounds to aid them in scaling their businesses.

Hightail, which was formerly known to many as the file-sharing service name YouSendIt, has raised a total of USD83 million after it nabbed USD34 million in new funding from an investment round led by Western Digital.

According to a Reuters report, the sale of Exxon Mobil Corp's controlling interests in utility and power firms Castle Peak Co Ltd and Hong Kong Pumped Storage Development Co would help the global oil firm return money to investors and focus more on its core businesses.

A most notable reason of Russian oil company Bashneft planned to launch an initial public offering was to avoid the chances of a hostile takeover by a potential investor, said one investment firm analyst.

Proceeds to be received from the planned initial public offering of New Zealand aviation company Airwork would go towards a stock buyback program, repay debts to affiliates and inject working capital into the firm.

The Wall Street Journal said it was highly unusual for a bank or an entity to withdraw from its role as an underwriter for an initial public offering or any similar deal, much less weeks before the deal is scheduled to begin.