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Dealmakers Eye $4 Trillion-Plus M&A Haul in 2025
Date: December 19, 2024
By Anirban Sen, Anousha Sakoui and Kane Wu LONDON/NEW YORK/HONG KONG (Reuters) – Top dealmakers expect global mergers and acquisitions (M&A)volumes to surpass $4 trillion next year, the highest in four years, buoyed by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s promise of less regulation, lower corporate taxes and a broadly pro-business stance. Following are comments from investment...
Italy Govt Calls Confidence Vote Over Deficit-Cutting 2025 Budget
Date: December 19, 2024
By Giuseppe Fonte ROME (Reuters) - Italy's government on Thursday called a vote of confidence in parliament on its deficit-cutting 2025 budget, a way of speeding up its approval to ensure the package...
Self-Proclaimed Bitcoin Inventor in Contempt of Court Over $1.2 Trillion UK Lawsuit
Date: December 19, 2024
LONDON (Reuters) - An Australian computer scientist who falsely claimed he invented bitcoin was on Thursday found in contempt of court for bringing a 911 billion-pound ($1.2 trillion) lawsuit against...
Czech Central Bank Pauses Easing Cycle as Inflation Lingers
Date: December 19, 2024
By Jason Hovet PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech National Bank (CNB) paused its year-long rate-cutting campaign as expected on Thursday, leaving its main rate at 4.00% as lingering inflation pressures,...
UK Watchdog Plans to Simplify Investment Information, in Shift From EU
Date: December 19, 2024
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain plans to simplify often complex and unclear documentation handed to investors to boost confidence and drive investments, in what one lawyer called the biggest shift to date...
Factbox-Who Received the Longest Jail Terms in the Gisele Pelicot Rape Trial?
Date: December 19, 2024
AVIGNON, France (Reuters) - A French court found all 51 defendants guilty on Thursday in a mass rape case including Dominique Pelicot, who repeatedly drugged his then wife, Gisele, and allowed dozens...