| KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian state oil firm Petronas will renew a bid for gas producer Progress Energy Resources, Petronas sources said, seeking to assure the Canadian government that the C$5.17 billion ($5.2 billion) deal will benefit the country. | | | | LONDON (Reuters) - Pearson said it would merge Penguin Books with Bertelsmann's Random House to create the world's leading consumer publisher, a day after Rupert Murdoch's Sunday Times said his News Corp group could bid for Penguin. | | | | | (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co said it has agreed to sell its climate control business, the automaker's last remaining automotive components operation, to Detroit Thermal Systems LLC for an undisclosed price. | | | | | LONDON (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has indicated it will make a "substantial cash offer" for media conglomerate Pearson's Penguin Group, joining the race for the book publisher, the Sunday Times reported. | | | | | BANGKOK (Reuters) - Shareholders of PTT Exploration and Production Pcl gave the green light to a 98 billion baht ($3.1 billion) share sale, Thailand's biggest ever, that the country's top oil and gas explorer needs to pay for aggressive expansion plans. | | | | | (Reuters) - Waste management company Clean Harbors Inc said it will buy privately held Safety-Kleen Inc, a re-refiner and recycler of used oil in North America, for $1.25 billion in an all-cash deal. | | | | | FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Telefonica SA is expected to sell shares in its German O2-branded subsidiary at the lower end of its indicative price range, four people involved with the initial public offering (IPO) told Reuters. | | | | | MADRID (Reuters) - A group of foreign investors from Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Singapore, Hong Kong and Qatar is eyeing the purchase of up to 20 percent in Spanish oil major Repsol , Expansion newspaper reported on Monday. | | | | LONDON/TOKYO (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline has raised its bet on a promising drug for HIV/AIDS by redrawing a deal with Japan's Shionogi which gives it a much bigger economic interest in the new product. | | | | COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Danish industrial enzymes maker Novozymes on Monday said it has agreed a 90 million-euro ($116 million) joint venture deal with Beta Renewables for biofuel projects, whereby Novozymes is to buy a 10 percent stake in Beta Renewables. | | | | | | | 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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