  | | | | TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan has excluded Nomura Holdings from working on the government's sale of roughly $6 billion worth of Japan Tobacco shares, in a blow to Japan's largest broker as it grapples with an insider trading scandal. | | |  | | | | (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is close to buying business software company Yammer Inc for more than $1 billion, according to a source familiar with the details. | | | | | | (Reuters) - Canada's Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd's RiverStone runoff unit will buy Brit Insurance Ltd of London from Brit Group for about $300 million to expand in the reinsurance market. | | | | | | LONDON (Reuters) - PLUS Markets Group shareholders have backed the sale of its loss-making stock market to broker ICAP , which wants the business as a launch pad into futures trading. | | | | | | (Reuters) - Yamana Gold Inc will buy Extorre Gold Mines Ltd for C$412.9 million in a cash-and-stock deal, Yamana Gold said. | | | | | | (Reuters) - Private equity firm Oaktree Capital Management LP terminated talks over a standstill pact with toymaker Jakks Pacific Inc after failing to agree on terms. | | | |  | | | | TOKYO/LONDON (Reuters) - Tesco , the world's No.3 retailer, has ended a nine-year attempt to crack Japan's tough retail market by effectively paying Aeon Corp , the country's No.2 general retailer, to take its loss-making business there off its hands. | | | | | | (Reuters) - British buyout group Melrose Plc is in talks to buy German utility-meter maker Elster Group SE in a deal worth $2.3 billion, which if completed would mark its first major deal in four years. | | | | | RIYADH (Reuters) - The catering unit of Saudi Arabian Airlines is seeking to raise 1.3 billion riyals ($350 million) by floating 30 percent of its shares, the prospectus showed as the initial public offer opened to retail investors on Monday. | | |  | | | | | LONDON (Reuters) - Mobile phone group Vodafone's 1.04 billion-pound ($1.63 billion) offer for Cable & Wireless Worldwide looked certain to succeed on Monday after the British fixed line operator's biggest shareholder dropped its opposition. | | | |  |  | | | 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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