The London Stock Exchange Group said on Monday it had gained approval from the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment for its US$27 billion takeover of analytics firm Refinitiv, judging there were no national security concerns with the deal.
Lockheed Martin Corp said on Monday Marillyn Hewson will step down as chief executive officer, effective June 15.
A German supermarket chain called on Monday for students whose universities have shut due to the coronavirus crisis to help it refill its shelves after shoppers stockpiled many essential goods, known as "hamstering" in German.
Starbucks Corp has moved to a "to go" model in all its company-owned stores in the United States and Canada for at least two weeks to facilitate social distancing among customers amid the spread of coronavirus, the coffee chain said on Sunday.
When Japanese conglomerate Marubeni booked a loss of 3.9 billion yen (US$35 million) at its U.S. grain trader Gavilon in November, it blamed adjustments for "inappropriate transactions" with Italy and Spain.
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) is halting production for two weeks at most of its European plants to help protect staff against the coronavirus pandemic and adjust to a slump in demand, the Italian-American carmaker said on Monday.
Airlines made unprecedented cuts to flights, costs and staffing on Monday, and stepped up calls for emergency government aid, as coronavirus lockdowns and new travel restrictions hit more major routes.
Ryanair said on Monday it would ground most of its aircraft in Europe over the next seven to 10 days, expects to cut seat capacity by 80per cent for the next two months, and could even ground its entire fleet, given travel restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Argentina's ambitious target to strike a deal with bondholders to revamp almost US$70 billion in debts by the end of March was never going to be easy. Now a coronavirus outbreak and crashing bond markets threaten to complicate things further.
Stock markets were routed and the dollar stumbled on Monday after the Federal Reserve slashed U.S. interest rates in an emergency move and its major peers offered cheap U.S. dollars in a bid to prevent global lending markets seizing up.
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