Portugal Telecom shareholders postpone vote on asset sale

Portugal Telecom SGPS (PTC.LS) shareholders on Monday postponed until Jan. 22 a vote on the sale of its former operations by its merger partner, Brazil's Oi (OIBR3.SA), complicating the 7.4 billion euro ($9 billion) deal and possibly casting doubts on the long-agreed deal.


Microsoft, Google tangle over Windows security patch

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Medical device maker Smith & Nephew CEO: Big not always beautiful

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Oil dives anew, falling 5 percent on Goldman downgrade, outages

Oil fell 5 percent to its lowest in nearly six years on Monday, extending the second-deepest rout on record, after Goldman Sachs warned that prices would fall further and Gulf oil producers showed no sign of cutting output.


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