| | MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch's News Corp boosted its share of Australia's pay-TV market after shareholders in Consolidated Media Holdings Ltd voted in favor of a A$2 billion ($2.1 billion) takeover offer from News. | |  | | | (Reuters) - PVH Corp has agreed to buy apparel firm Warnaco Group Inc for about $2.9 billion, in a deal to bring all Calvin Klein clothing under its control. | | | | | | LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co agreed to buy filmmaker George Lucas's Lucasfilm Ltd and its "Star Wars" franchise for $4.05 billion in cash and stock, a blockbuster deal that includes the surprise promise of a new film in the series in 2015. | | | | | | PERM, Russia (Reuters) - Russia will sell a 5.66 percent stake in Rosneft to British major BP next year but will refrain from a wider privatization of the country's largest oil company in 2013, Energy Minister Alexander Novak said in an interview. | | | | | | SYDNEY (Reuters) - Noble Group Ltd and POSCO dropped a A$1.2 billion ($1.24 billion) takeover bid for Australia's Arrium Ltd on Wednesday, balking at paying more after the company's board rejected a sweetened offer. | | | | | | FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's Bayer is to buy U.S. vitamins maker Schiff Nutrition International for an agreed $1.2 billion as it seeks stable sources of growth to complement its more volatile prescription drugs business. | | | | | | MOSCOW (Reuters) - Boeing Co will sell 35 of its 737 MAX airliners to an aircraft leasing arm of Russian Technologies (Rostech) in a deal worth $3.5 billion, the companies said on Tuesday. | | | | | | DUBAI (Reuters) - Dana Gas has been in discussions with holders of its $920 million Islamic bond maturing October 31 on a restructuring of the sukuk, the company said in a brief statement on Wednesday. | | | | | ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss drugmaker Novartis said on Wednesday it would spend more than $500 million on a new biotechnology production site in Singapore to support its growing pipeline of biologics. | | | | | | ZAGREB (Reuters) - Four financial advisory firms have bid to advise Croatia in the sale of its biggest insurer, Croatia Osiguranje (CO) , as the Balkan country seeks to reduce its budget gap. | | | |  |  | | | 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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