  | | | | (Reuters) - Netflix Inc adopted a poison pill defense to prevent a hostile takeover, acting just days after activist investor Carl Icahn disclosed he had bought a stake in the streaming video and DVD-by-mail subscription service. | | | | | TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israeli officials plan to meet executives of Canada's Potash Corp in the next week before deciding on whether to allow the fertilizer producer's proposed $13.5 billion takeover of Israel Chemicals (ICL) to move forward. | | | | | | (Reuters) - U.S. industrial conglomerate Emerson Electric Co reported a sharply lower quarterly net profit on Tuesday, reflecting a goodwill charge in its network power business, and said it expects earnings to grow by at least a single-digit percentage rate in fiscal 2013. | | | | | | LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Office of Fair Trading on Tuesday said it would scrutinize Barclays' planned takeover of Dutch rival ING's British retail banking business to make sure it would not restrict competition. | | | | | | TOKYO (Reuters) - Marubeni Corp , which in May sealed a $5.6 billion deal to buy U.S. grain merchant Gavilon, said on Tuesday it's still waiting for Chinese regulators to approve the deal, but denied tensions between Tokyo and Beijing are causing the holdup. | | | | | | MOSCOW (Reuters) - Shell has sealed a two-year deal worth up to $4 billion to supply oil to mid-sized Russian refiner and retailer Bashneft , the Russian firm said on Tuesday, extending an existing agreement between the two sides. | | | | | | DUBAI (Reuters) - Credit Suisse and Qatar's sovereign wealth fund have set up an asset management joint venture as the gas-rich Gulf state looks to beef up its financial centre and the Swiss bank seeks to tap strong growth in the region. | | | | | | (Reuters) - Private equity firm Warburg Pincus has agreed to sell Scotsman Industries Inc to Italian food service equipment firm Ali Group for about $575 million, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the deal. | | | | | NEW YORK, Nov 5 (IFR) - Abbott's new pharmaceuticals business AbbVie Inc completed the biggest ever dollar-denominated debt issue in the US high-grade market on Monday, raising $14.7 billion in a six-part deal. | | | | | | (Reuters) - Harbinger Group Inc , a holding company controlled by billionaire hedge fund manager Philip Falcone, said on Monday it will form a joint venture with Exco Resources Inc , paying $372.5 million for a 75 percent stake in Exco's conventional oil and natural gas assets. | | | |  |  | | | 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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