  | | | | (Reuters) - Investors are bracing for Facebook's Wall Street debut on Friday after the world's No.1 online social network raised about $16 billion in one of the biggest initial public offerings in U.S. history. | | | | | HONG KONG (Reuters) - High-end jeweler Graff Diamonds is forging ahead with an initial public offering to raise up to $1 billion, setting a price range on Friday for its Hong Kong flotation despite a sell-off in equity markets. | | | | | | (Reuters) - Billionaire investor Warren Buffett sought to buy Residential Capital (ResCap) from Ally Financial before the U.S. auto and mortgage lender put its home-lending unit into bankruptcy, Bloomberg said, citing three persons familiar with the matter. | | | | | | TAIPEI (Reuters) - Private equity firm Carlyle Group is in talks to sell its stake in Taiwan's Ta Chong Bank to Yuanta Financial in a deal worth up to T$37 billion ($1.25 billion), two sources familiar with the situation said. | | | | | | MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian investment and trading group Summa has agreed with businessman Sergei Generalov to buy control of transport group FESCO for around $1 billion, an industry source familiar with the deal said on Friday. | | | | | | MILAN (Reuters) - Struggling Italian insurer Fondiaria-SAI said on Friday its board has offered peer Unipol a 61 percent stake in the insurer after a planned four-way merger needed to bring the insurer's solvency ratios back to legally required levels. | | | | | | MOSCOW (Reuters) - VTB Capital, an investment arm of VTB , Russia's No.2 lender, has acquired a minority stake in Siberian gold miner Zapadnaya Gold Mining, which tried unsuccessfully to list in London last year. | | | | | | LONDON (Reuters) - British bus and rail operator Stagecoach has agreed to buy some of struggling Coach America's U.S. businesses, helping it grow its rapidly expanding North America operation. | | | | | HONG KONG (Reuters) - Global insurers Manulife Financial Corp , Metlife and Prudential Financial Corp are among suitors expected to place first-round bids on Friday to buy ING Groep's Asia life insurance unit in a deal worth about $6.5 billion to $7 billion, sources familiar with the matter said. | | | | | | AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch food and chemicals firm DSM is buying the world's biggest producer of a fish oil extract believed to boost brain power for about 420 million euros ($534 million), as it targets parts of the food sector resistant to economic swings. | | | |  |  | | | 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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