  | | | | LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will list a majority stake in the Royal Mail postal service on the stock market in the next nine months, promising free shares for workers fiercely opposed to the country's biggest privatization in around 20 years. | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - QVT Financial LP, the third-largest shareholder in obesity drugmaker Vivus Inc , intends to vote for the full slate of nine directors proposed by dissident investor First Manhattan Co, a source familiar with QVT's thinking said on Wednesday. | | | | | | BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators will approve a $4 billion bid by Baxter International Inc for Sweden's Gambro AB after the U.S. company offered to sell a unit to ease competition concerns, two people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. | | | |  | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - SoftBank Corp will move rapidly to use airwaves from Clearwire Corp to bolster Sprint Nextel Corp's wireless service, but it does not plan any big personnel changes once it takes over the No. 3 U.S. mobile carrier, a top SoftBank executive told Reuters. | | | | | | LONDON (Reuters) - The Association of British Insurers (ABI) - whose members manage assets of nearly $3 trillion, or about a quarter of the British economy - wants rules for listing on the London Stock Exchange changed to protect minority shareholders. | | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. commodities brokerage INTL FCStone Inc said on Wednesday it has dropped plans to buy an online commodities exchange in Asia due to complications posed by newly-issued financial regulations. | | | |  | | | | SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea is set to decide next week whether to proceed with an auction on supplying 60 next generation fighter jets worth 8.3 trillion won ($7.31 billion) after rounds of failed bidding, a defense official said on Thursday. | | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Health Management Associates Inc has attracted interest from Community Health Systems Inc and other rivals about buying the $4 billion hospital operator, three people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. | | |  | | | | (Reuters) - Dell Inc shareholder Yacktman Asset Management threw its support behind Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management's buyout proposal for the PC maker. | | |  | | | | | (Reuters) - Glencore Xstrata PLC is looking to sell its Dakota Growers Pasta Co business as it continues to divest assets acquired from its $6 billion purchase of Canadian grain handler Viterra last year, according to three sources with knowledge of the process. | | | |  |  | | | 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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