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Exclusive: EU antitrust regulators to okay Siemens Healthineers’ $16.4 billion Varian buy – sources By Reuters

BRUSSELS/MUNICH (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators are set to grant conditional clearance to German health group Siemens Healthineers' $16.4-billion bid for U.S. peer Varian Medical Systems Inc (NYSE:VAR), three people familiar with the matter said. The EU green light will come after Siemens Healthineers last month offered concessions to address competition concerns about interoperability, the sources said. Such a...

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Exclusive: Equinor considers more U.S. asset sales in global strategy revamp By Reuters

By Dmitry Zhdannikov and Nerijus Adomaitis OSLO (Reuters) - Norway's Equinor is looking to sell more assets in the United States and exit several other countries as part of a major global reshuffle as it tries to return to profit after writing down $25 billion of U.S. assets over the past decade. While the company, like other energy majors, has been hit...

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France fines Google 1.1 million euros over hotel rankings practices By Reuters

PARIS (Reuters) - Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Ireland and Google France have agreed to pay a 1.1 million euros ($1.34 million) fine after a probe found that Google's hotel rankings could be misleading for consumers, France's finance ministry and fraud watchdog said on Monday. The ministry and watchdog also said in a statement that Google has amended its hotel rankings practices since September 2019....

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Dollar on back foot as market optimism lifts riskier currencies By Reuters

By Iain Withers LONDON (Reuters) - The safe haven dollar started the week pinned near two-week lows on Monday, as optimism about COVID-19 vaccine rollouts and a planned $1.9 trillion U.S. stimulus package drove up riskier currencies and stock markets across Europe and Asia. Among the gainers versus the weaker greenback, the British pound broke $1.39 for the first time in nearly...

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Vodafone’s Vantage expands portfolio, affirms guidance pre IPO By Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - Vantage Towers, the infrastructure business spun out by Vodafone (LON:VOD), said on Monday it had expanded its tower portfolio as it confirmed its outlook ahead of its expected initial public offering in Frankfurt. The world's second-largest mobile operator, Vodafone plans to float Vantage on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in March in a share offering worth around 3...

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One-off wealth tax might help fix COVID hit to UK budget: lawmaker By Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - A one-off wealth tax might be a way for British finance minister Rishi Sunak to plug the huge hole in the country's public finances caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, an influential lawmaker said on Monday. Mel Stride, chair of parliament's Treasury Committee, said other countries such as France and Switzerland had introduced wealth taxes only to row back on...

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As Lebanon’s banks struggle to raise capital, a deadline looms By Reuters

By Tom Arnold and Ellen Francis BEIRUT (Reuters) - Paralysed by financial crisis and riven with political risk, a number of Lebanon's banks are struggling to meet a central bank target to raise their capital defences by 20% by the end of this month. Less than half of the country's dozen or so large banks are expected to meet the requirement, which...

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