  | | | | LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A group spear-headed by former basketball great Earvin "Magic" Johnson agreed to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team for a record $2 billion, team owner Frank McCourt announced on Tuesday, capping a two-year drama that started with McCourt's divorce and wound its way through bankruptcy court. | | | | | PARIS (Reuters) - HIG European Capital Partners has offered to buy three French alumina plants from mining group Rio Tinto , Olivier Boyadjian, managing director of the private equity firm's French unit said on Wednesday. | | | | | | (Reuters) - Continental Resources Inc said it will buy privately held Wheatland Oil Inc's assets for $340 million, to add to its position in the Bakken basin, which makes up more than half its output. | | | |  | | | | ABU DHABI/DUBAI (Reuters) - Talks to sell a stake in Britain's state-owned Royal Bank of Scotland are being held at the level of the Abu Dhabi ruling family, sources told Reuters. | | | | | | TAIPEI (Reuters) - It promises to revolutionize television in the way the iPad did computing, and the chance to make Apple Inc's much-anticipated smart TV could explain Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry's bold move to buy into 100-year-old Japanese firm Sharp . | | | | | | BRUSSELS (Reuters) - ArcelorMittal said on Wednesday it had completed its sale of 134.3 million shares and the same number of warrants in Turkey's biggest steelmaker Erdemir as it shifts away from non-core activities and focuses on cutting debt. | | | |  | | | | TOKYO (Reuters) - Sharp Corp, which is in a partnership with Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry on LCDs, said on Wednesday it will announce an agreement with Sony Corp at 11 a.m. (0200 GMT) on its main Sakai plant in Osaka. | | | | | | ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland is nearing deals with Germany and the United States over hidden offshore accounts, including paying U.S. officials 5 billion Swiss francs ($5.5 billion) to settle allegations of aiding tax evasion, according to reports on Wednesday. | | | | | PARIS (Reuters) - France's competition watchdog said on Wednesday that it would open an extended inquiry of a 2006 deal that saw Vivendi's pay-TV unit Canal+ buy its main satellite competitor TPS. | | | | | | SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Samsung Construction & Trading has taken a 15 percent stake in a $4.8 billion power station and carbon capture and storage project in Britain owned by 2Co Energy, the companies said in a statement on Wednesday. | | | |  |  | | | 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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