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CEO TALKS: Galeries Lafayette’s Nicolas Houzé Talks Big Investment Bets as ‘Boring Retail Is Dead’
PARIS — Retail runs in Nicolas Houzé’s blood. A fifth-generation member of the French family behind Galeries Lafayette, Houzé joined the…
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Sembcorp confirms talks to buy Australia’s Alinta Energy from Chow Tai Fook
Sembcorp Industries on Monday (Dec 8) confirmed that it is in talks to buy Australian’s Alinta Energy, the country’s fourth biggest…
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SoftBank in talks to buy data-centre investor DigitalBridge
SoftBank is in talks to acquire DigitalBridge Group, a private equity firm that invests in assets such as data centres, as it seeks to…
Culture
Warner Bros begins exclusive deal talks with Netflix
The traditional TV business is in the midst of a major contraction as viewers shift to streaming Warner Bros Discovery has entered…
Culture
Netflix in exclusive talks to buy Warner Bros Discovery assets: source
Netflix is in exclusive talks to buy Warner Bros Discovery’s film and television studios along with its streaming assets after offering…
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Oil settles up on expectations of Fed rate cut, Ukraine peace talks stalling
US crude futures briefly rose more than US$1 a barrel earlier in the session as global shares rose Oil prices settled up on Thursday (Dec…
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Databricks in talks to raise capital at US$134 billion valuation: report
Data analytics firm Databricks is in talks to raise US$5 billion at a valuation of US$134 billion, which is roughly 32 times this year’s…
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Oil falls on drawn-out Ukraine peace talks, all eyes on upcoming Opec+ meeting
Saudi Arabia is expected to lower its January crude price for Asian buyers for a second month to its lowest in five years Crude futures…
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Oil prices settle up in low volume on US holiday; Russia-Ukraine talks in focus
Oil prices rose on Thursday as market participants weighed the likelihood that talks to end the war in Ukraine will yield an agreement,…
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Nvidia-Google AI chip rivalry escalates on report of Meta talks; Nvidia shares drop
Meta Platforms is in talks to spend billions on Google’s AI chips, The Information reported, adding to a months-long share rally as the…
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Nvidia-Google AI chip rivalry escalates on report of Meta talks; Nvidia shares drop 6%
Meta Platforms is in talks to spend billions on Google’s AI chips, The Information reported, adding to a months-long share rally as the…
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Nvidia-Google AI chip rivalry escalates on report of Meta talks; Nvidia shares down 2.6%
Meta Platforms is in talks to spend billions on Google’s AI chips, The Information reported, adding to a months-long share rally as the…
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Europe: Shares recover on US rate-cut optimism; Ukraine peace talks in focus
Stoxx 600’s gains this year have been driven in part by defence stocks on prospects of higher Nato spending European shares ended higher…
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Oil falls as Ukraine peace talks edge toward a solution
Oil prices slipped on Monday, extending losses from last week, as Russia-Ukraine peace talks edged closer to a solution and the US dollar…
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Indigenous people reflect on the meaning of their participation in COP30 climate talks
BELEM, Brazil (AP) — Indigenous people filled the streets, paddled the waterways and protested at the heart of the venue to make their…
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COP30 climate talks evacuated after fire breaks out
The UN climate talks COP30 have been evacuated due to a fire breaking out inside the venue in Belém, Brazil. BBC journalists saw flames…
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Christopher Guest Talks with Ariel Levy
On October 24, 2025, the actor and director Christopher Guest took the stage for a discussion with the New Yorker staff writer Ariel Levy,…
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CDL in advanced talks to sell Quayside Isle @ Sentosa Cove, which was put on market for S$111 million
Group also reports it is in advanced talks over the sale of Sentosa Cove’s Quayside Isle City Developments Ltd (CDL) and its joint venture…
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Carlsberg may sell some Asia operations, Sapporo in talks
DANISH brewer Carlsberg is considering selling part of its Asian operations, and Sapporo Holdings has emerged as a top candidate to make…
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Singtel shares surge 4.9% to new high on Bharti Airtel sale, talks for data centre deal
In a bourse filing on Friday morning, Singtel acknowledged that it was is in talks about STT GDC as part of a consortium Shares of Singtel…
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Singtel shares surge 5.1% to new high on Bharti Airtel sale, talks for data centre deal
In a bourse filing on Friday morning, Singtel acknowledges that it is in talks about STT GDC as part of a consortium Shares of Singtel…
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Singtel shares end 2.9% higher on Bharti Airtel share sale, talks for data centre deal
Shares of Singtel surged as much as 5.1 per cent on the back of news that one of its units will sell US$1.2 billion worth of Bharti Airtel…
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India in talks to create bigger banks, including via mergers, finance minister says
India has 12 state-owned banks, which together hold assets totalling 171 trillion rupees (S$2.51 trillion) as of March India needs more…
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Singtel jumps 4.9% to all-time high on talks to buy local data-centre firm
Singtel and KKR & Co are in the late stages of discussions to buy more than 80% of ST Telemedia Global Data Centres for over S$5 billion…