According to a report by Bloomberg, the charts produced by market-data provider Nanex LLC caused the ire of some traders, who insisted that Nanex's charts caused unnecessary investor anxiety.
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Gazprom expands media business with Profmedia acquisition
Despite investor criticism it received for paying more investment attention on its non-core division, Gazprom announced on Tuesday in a joint statement that it had acquired Profmedia from metals tycoon Vladimir Potanin.
Repsol to give recommendation to YPF deal for less than half of its value - sources
On Wednesday, sources disclosed that the board of directors of Spanish oil major Repsol will resolve to agree on compensation for its 51% ownership stake in YPF, of which the latter will be nationalized by the government of Argentina.
Men's Wearhouse retaliates by offering a USD1.5 billion bid to acquire Jos A Bank
The USD1.5 billion acquisition bid Men's Wearhouse Inc offered to Jos. A. Bank Clothiers Inc was the former's form of retaliation after receiving pressure from its largest shareholder Eminence Capital LLC to accept the takeover bid Jos A Bank extended earlier.
Be wary of vanity metrics in Web startups - venture capitalists
Snapchat's rejection of Facebook's USD3 billion acquisition offer raised the question about the true measure of a startup's viability as a profitable company in terms of the number of likes, snaps, and even signups.
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In its efforts to restructure the company, Bank of Cyprus hired former deputy chief executive Euan Hamilton from the Royal Bank of Scotland as a consultant. Bank of Cyprus's efforts to turn the state of the company around has been hindered by political infighting as well as heavy criticism over its lack of transparency.
Indian company TTK Group is moving forward with its plans to seize back market share it lost after the ending of its partnership with Reckitt Benckiser Group Plc a year ago by increasing sales shipments of its own brand of prophylactics.
Despite the offer at a 27% premium from yesterday's trading close of Algeta ASA's shares, the Norwegian company said through a spokesperson that it does not guarantee that it will accept Bayer AG's offer.
Due to the swing of gold prices, South African mining company Gold Fields Ltd had resorted to negotiating with its creditors for an extension of its loan maturities, said Gold Fields CEO Nick Holland.
China Banking Regulatory Commission's new rules will prohibit banks to circumvent lending limits via loan restructuring and other means, according to sources who had disclosed the new banking measures to Bloomberg.
ZTE is currently devoting its resources to developing a new smartwatch that would be released to the Chinese market in the first quarter of next year. The device would be almost the same as the Samsung Galaxy Gear, but would be cheaper and could only connect to other ZTE mobile devices.
The New York Times cited reports that have suggested that Level 3 Communications, which controls most of the fiber optic cables that connect everyone to the Internet, may have greenlighted the NSA to tap data from Yahoo and Google. Both companies have announced that they will now start encrypting their data.
Tyber Medical, a privately-held medical device company, said it was able to successfully close its initial funding round. Names of the private equity investors who participated, as well as the amount raised were not disclosed.
Greenko Group said it had completed Matrix, its fourth wind farm located in the state of Karnataka. Greenko is a renewable power company based in India backed by the sovereign wealth fund of Singapore.
