  | | | | LONDON (Reuters) - Europe's biggest defense contractor BAE Systems on Friday said it had won a 446 million pound ($709.58 million) deal to provide engineering support for Eurofighter Typhoon jets, helping sustain some 600 jobs in Britain. | | | | | TOKYO/SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's SK hynix said on Friday it has made a preliminary bid for Japan's Elpida Memory, while sources said U.S.-based Micron Technology also plans to enter the fray for taking over the bankrupt memory chipmaker. | | | | | | SINGAPORE/JAKARTA (Reuters) - DBS Group , Southeast Asia's biggest lender, is making a bid for a controlling stake in Indonesia's Bank Danamon worth about $3.2 billion and owned by an arm of Singapore state investor Temasek Holdings , sources said on Friday. | | | |  | | | | LONDON (Reuters) - African Barrick Gold (ABG) sees increased opportunities for deals in Africa as asset prices ease and potential sellers begin to consider their options in the face of a still-uncertain economic outlook, the mining company said on Tuesday. | | | | | | NAIROBI (Reuters) - The World Bank's private-sector lending arm said on Wednesday it plans to invest up to $3.5 billion in Sub-Saharan Africa this year, mainly in the infrastructure sector. | | | | | | TOKYO/LONDON (Reuters) - Japanese brewer Asahi is working to finalise the purchase of eastern European brewer StarBev from private equity owner CVC Capital Partners in a deal likely to be worth around $3 billion, said people familiar with the matter. | | | | | | PERTH/TOKYO (Reuters) - Xstrata Plc and Tohoku Electric Power Co have settled the first Japanese annual coal import contract for the fiscal year beginning April 1 slightly above $115 per metric ton, sources told Reuters on Friday, a level which could be followed by the rest of Japan's utilities. | | | | | | TOKYO/SYDNEY (Reuters) - Japan's Marubeni Corp , steelmaker POSCO and shipbuilder STX Corp will buy 30 percent of an Australian iron ore project for A$3.5 billion ($3.6 billion), the latest in a series of investments by Asian firms in the country's iron ore sector. | | | | | (Reuters) - Bombardier Inc's train unit has won orders worth $208 million to provide 16 TWINDEXX Vario multiple units to Deutsche Bahn AG. | | |  | | | | | TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo Electric Power Co, or Tepco, said on Friday it had notified Japan's trade ministry it was dropping plans for two more nuclear reactors at its Fukushima Daiichi plant, paralyzed last year by a devastating earthquake. | | | |  |  | | | 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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