  | | | | ZURICH (Reuters) - Roche Holding AG on Monday extended its $5.7 billion cash bid for gene decoder Illumina for a second time as the Swiss drugmaker sticks to its tried and tested M&A strategy of playing a long game. | | |  | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc has appointed three new independent directors as it prepares for a proxy fight with activist hedge fund investor Daniel Loeb. | | | | | | SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore offshore services firm Swiber Holdings Ltd said on Monday it had secured a $273 million contract in the Gulf of Mexico. | | | |  | | | | HONG KONG (Reuters) - China Eastern Airlines Corp Ltd , the country's third largest airline by market value, said on Monday that it expects its joint venture with Australia's Qantas Airways Ltd to be profitable in the third year. | | | | | | ABUJA (Reuters) - General Electric has signed a memorandum of understanding with Nigeria to invest $10 billion in new power plants, in which it will take a 10-15 percent equity stake, a power ministry spokesman told Reuters. | | | | | | MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska is ready to buy RUSAL's 25 percent blocking stake in Norilsk Nickel to resolve a shareholder dispute at the world's largest aluminium producer, a source close to the RUSAL board said on Monday. | | | |  | | | | ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Shares in Turkey's Akbank fell nearly five percent on Monday after Citigroup said it plans to reduce its stake to below 10 percent from 20 percent, with uncertainty over the sale method and purchaser weighing on the stock. | | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hedge fund Elliott Management sent a letter to Ally Financial's board last week saying a bankruptcy filing for its mortgage subsidiary would trigger a protracted legal battle against the lender and make its proposed public offering "nearly impossible" for several years. | | | | | (Reuters) - U.S. clinical research firm Contract Research Solutions Inc, also known as Cetero, filed for bankruptcy protection early on Monday, court filings show. | | | | | | KUWAIT (Reuters) - Kuwait will launch in coming weeks an initial tender for construction of a second terminal at its international airport, a project worth around 700 million to 800 million dinars ($2.5-$2.9 billion), state-run news agency KUNA said on Monday. | | | |  |  | | | A daily digest of breaking business news, coverage of the US economy, major corporate news and the financial markets. Register Today | | |  | |  | | | The latest Reuters articles on M&A, IPOs, private equity, hedge funds and regulatory updates delivered to your inbox each day. Register Today | | | | | | » MORE NEWSLETTERS | |
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