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Masayoshi Son, the billionaire creator of Japan's SoftBank Group Corp, will satisfy Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday, a. source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. While the matter of discussion was not immediately clear,. the go to comes as SoftBank eyes more expert system. and technology bets in Asia's third-largest economy. The source included that Kid satisfied Mukesh Ambani - India's. wealthiest male and chairman of oil-to-telecoms conglomerate. Dependence Industries - on Tuesday. The duo discussed. prospective expert system chances in India. Son's last schedule might alter, the source said. They did. not want to be...

Alimentation CoucheTard CEO Alex Miller stated on Tuesday the Canadian seller would remain relentless in its efforts to pursue a handle Japan's Seven && . i and continue a friendly approach with the 7Eleven. operator. Couche-Tard had actually first approached 7 & & i in August for the. largest-ever foreign buyout of a Japanese business. It had. used $38.5 billion, but raised it to $47 billion after Seven. & & i declined the preliminary quote. Miller's remarks echo Couche-Tard's chairman and co-founder. Alain Bouchard's comments about ruling out a hostile. takeover bid for Seven & & i from an interview...

Sony's India unit said on Friday it had actually protected the media rights for all Asian Cricket Council (ACC) competitions until 2031, which a source with direct understanding of the matter put the worth at $170. million. Disney and Dependence, viewed as frontrunners,. did not bid for the rights, another source said on condition of. anonymity. The offer comes at a crucial time for the nation's media. industry, which is going through a debt consolidation stage after the. $ 8.5 billion merger of Reliance and Walt Disney's India media. possessions. Earlier this year, India's antitrust body raised some. issues about...

Alimentation CoucheTard is ruling out a hostile takeover quote for Japan's. 7 & & i, the Nikkei company daily quoted the. Canadian suitor's chairman and cofounder, Alain Bouchard, as. stating. In an interview with Japanese media carried out in Canada on. Thursday, Bouchard stated a hostile bid was not amongst aspects. being thought about, indicating the company's objective to secure. a friendly acquisition deal, the Nikkei reported. Couche-Tard, which competes with Seven & & i in the North. American filling station market, in August made an initial quote to. take control of the Japanese retail giant. It later on raised...

Japan's Seven & & i Holdings got a buyout proposition from a member of its founding Ito family last week, a possible $58 billion whiteknight bid which would see the company go personal and allow it to continue running under existing management. Many worldwide retailers have actually decided to stay privately owned or have founding families which have actually maintained considerable stakes. An index assembled by EY and University of St. Gallen at the start of 2023 listed the 500 largest household services internationally ranked by revenue. Below is a list of the biggest 20 family-owned retailers, both publicly listed...

Shares in 7 & & i Holdings jumped in early Tokyo trading on Wednesday following a. media report that the founding family behind the Japanese. retailer was intending to take it personal within this monetary. year ending in March. The shares surged as much as 11% and ended up the morning. session up 8.4% at 2,642.5 yen ($ 17.07), compared with a 0.45%. drop in the benchmark Nikkei average. The operator of more than 80,000 7-Eleven corner store. around the globe is caught in a three-way tug-of-war between a. foreign takeover suitor, its starting family, and business. management who say...

QatarEnergy sharply cut the term cost for alShaheen petroleum loading in January, trade sources said on Friday, in line with a current fall in Middle East area premiums. The January term rate was up to 73 cents a barrel above Dubai quotes, the sources stated, down for a second straight month and at a multi-month low. The sources decreased to be named as they are not authorised to consult with the media. The term cost for December freights was at a premium of $ 1.93 a barrel. For its January tender, QatarEnergy offered 5 cargoes at premiums between 40 and...

Hurricane Usagi damaged sharply on Friday after bearing down on the Philippines' northern towns, blowing away homes in its course as authorities brace for another storm that might hit the capital Manila over the weekend. Usagi, known locally as Ofel, magnified into an extremely tropical cyclone as it made landfall in the town of Baggao in Cagayan province on Thursday afternoon. Philippine meteorological firm Pag-asa stated that Usagi has because weakened and is now headed towards Taiwan. Usagi is the 15th cyclone to hit the Philippines this year. Authorities are currently bracing for another typhoon, Man-yi, which might strike eastern...

Net income at Japanese oil refiners fell in the very first half of their financial year, but they kept profitability and outperformed their South Korean rivals as strong domestic margins shielded them from a weak abroad market. Japan's leading 3 refiners - Eneos Holdings, Idemitsu Kosan and Cosmo Energy Holdings - reported a 40% to 60% drop in net earnings for the six months ended Sept. 30, compared to the year ago duration, primarily affected by significant appraisal losses on oil stocks amid falling unrefined prices. However, earnings excluding inventory-related factors fell by only 22% to 35%, assisted by improved...

Artisan Partners, a U.S.based investor in Japanese retail giant Seven & & i Holdings, contacted the company's special committee to consider a bidding procedure of completing takeover propositions to secure the greatest offer. The 7-Eleven convenience store owner got a buyout proposition from a member of its starting Ito household, it said on Wednesday, a prospective $58 billion white-knight quote as it weighs a competing deal from Canada's Alimentation Couche-Tard. The offer from Ito-Kogyo, a company linked to Seven & & i Vice President Junro Ito, is non-binding and under review by the same special committee established to assess Couche-Tard's...

Japan's Seven & & i Holdings is thinking about introducing a management buyout that would see the seller go private, the Nikkei paper and Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, a deal that might be worth up to 9 trillion yen ($ 58.2 billion). 7 & & i faces a takeover bid from Canada's Alimentation Couche-Tard and has been under pressure to increase business worth. Going private would therefore allow the company to continue under its existing management and get rid of the pressure from shareholders to sell more of its possessions - as well as eliminate the danger of a...

Saudi Arabia's crude oil supply to China is set to fall to about 36.5 million barrels in December, trade sources said on Monday, on weak need from the world's largest importer. This is a 2nd straight month of decline and the most affordable volume given that July, down from about 37.5 million barrels that Chinese refiners are expected to receive in November and about 46 million barrels in October, trade information collected showed. China's state majors Sinopec, PetroChina and Sinochem will be lifting less crude in December while Saudi supply to its joint venture Fujian refinery will rebound as the...

Madagascar's Ambatovy nickel task companies anticipate to finish its financial obligation restructuring in early December, the task's significant investor Sumitomo Corp. stated on Thursday, including that it was still considering. all alternatives for Ambatovy. Sumitomo owns a 54.2% stake in the job companies -. Ambatovy Minerals, a mining company, and Dynatec Madagascar, a. refining business - while the remaining stake is held by Korea. Mine Rehabilitation and Mineral Resources. Previously today, a London court authorized the restructuring. plan submitted by the task companies, Sumitomo said in a. statement. As a shareholder for this project, we will continue to. evaluate all...

Nissan Motor said on Thursday its international production fell for a fifth straight month in October, led by downshifts at most of its production centers except for Mexico. While worldwide sales also dropped for a seventh month, sales in Nissan's core market, the United States, grew for the first time in 3 months. Nissan earlier this month announced strategies to axe 9,000 jobs and 20% of its manufacturing capability internationally to cut costs, after the third-biggest Japanese carmaker behind Toyota and Honda suffered sales slumps in China and the U.S. . The risk of U.S. tariffs is now clouding the...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has sent out a letter to President Joe Biden asking him to approve Nippon Steel's acquisition of U.S. Steel, to avoid ruining current efforts to strengthen ties between the nations, according to 2 sources acquainted with the matter. Biden joined an effective U.S. labour union in opposing the $ 15 billion takeover of the storied American firm by Japan's top steelmaker and referred it to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), a deceptive government panel that examines foreign investments for national security dangers. The due date for the CFIUS review is...

Physical gold premiums insinuated India on a pullback in need this week as increasing local rates prompted jewellers and retail buyers to remain on the sidelines, while demand for bullion in top customer China and other significant Asian centers also stayed suppressed. In India, domestic costs rose to 77,220 rupees per 10 grams on Friday after being up to 73,300 rupees recently. Jewellers were active last week following a significant cost correction. However, this week, they lowered their purchases as rates increased, said Ashok Jain, proprietor of Mumbai-based gold wholesaler Chenaji Narsinghji. Today, Indian dealerships charged a premium of approximately...

SoftBankbacked Indian shopping site OfBusiness has appointed five investment banks including India's Axis Capital, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan for its as much as $1 billion IPO targetted for 2025, a top executive informed Reuters on Wednesday. Citigroup and Bank of America have also been provided the required to handle the stock offering which the business goals to introduce late next year, stated Chief Financial Officer Bhavesh Keswani. Reuters is first to report the bank appointments for OfBusiness' IPO. They come amidst a flurry of IPOs in India - 290 business have actually raised more than $15.5 billion as of mid-November,...

Nippon Steel will not import steel to the U.S. from its global mills, the Japanese business's Executive Vice President Takahiro Mori stated on Monday in a letter to United Steelworkers union members. Nippon is looking to close its $14.9 billion offer for U.S. Steel by the end of the year before President-elect Donald Trump, who has actually pledged to obstruct the offer throughout his campaign, goes into the White House in January. In its effort to alleviate the obstacles postured by the union and President Joe Biden, the business has promised investments to US Steel and guaranteed task security to...

Physical gold premiums in India climbed to a near fourmonth high this week, driven by a rebound in need as rates dropped, while leading customer China saw minimal retail purchasing interest. Domestic prices in India fell to 73,300 rupees per 10 grams earlier today after striking a record high of 79,775 rupees last month. Buyers were holding off for rates to drop, but once they did, retail buyers jumped in and started buying, stated a. Hyderabad-based jeweller. Indian dealerships this week charged a premium of. as much as $16 an ounce over main domestic costs-- inclusive of. 6% import and...

Chinese carmaker Chery will postpone the start of car production in Spain to the fourth quarter of 2025, an executive at its Spanish partner Ebro said on Thursday, about a year behind a previous schedule. In September, Ebro already said Chery would delay production at its Barcelona plant, its very first in Europe, till near year from late this year without giving a more exact time. The project has not been cancelled. There has actually simply been a. readjustment, Ebro's chief executive, Pedro Calef, said in an. interview at the plant. We have reasons to think we will have a...

The Japanese steel market is feeling a sense of crisis as the country's steel imports for the AprilSeptember duration reached a 10year high, with supply from China hitting a record high, an executive of Nippon Steel stated on Friday. We notified the government that we are carefully keeping an eye on general steel imports and have a sense of crisis concerning the present trend, Takashi Hirose, Nippon Steel's executive vice president, informed press reporters following the month-to-month meeting between the market ministry and steel market representatives. Japan, the world's third-largest steel producer, saw steel imports increase to 2.8 million metric...

Donald Trump has actually been chosen U.S. president, topping an amazing comeback 4 years after he was voted out of the White Home. Here is what business in Asia have bought the United States, what Trump has stated about them and what possible U.S. service policy changes would mean for Asian companies. SEMICONDUCTORS Asian chipmakers, led by Taiwan's TSMC and South Korea's Samsung Electronics, have jointly invested a minimum of $117 billion in the U.S., encouraged by the current U.S. administration's essential initiative aimed at lowering its dependence on Asia for high-end chips. In return, they have gotten or been...

Freshworks raised its annual profits and earnings forecasts on Wednesday after upbeat thirdquarter results, assisted by need for its AIdriven items, sending its shares up more than 15% in extended trading. The California-based company stated it will lay off 13% of its workforce, or 660 staff members, internationally in a quote to improve operations. It anticipates to book about $11 million to $13 million in restructuring charges in the fourth quarter. Freshworks expects the restructuring strategy will finish by completion of the fiscal year ending Dec. 31. Businesses are digitizing their operations with AI tools, which is increasing demand for...

Japan's secondbiggest steelmaker, JFE Holdings, lowered its forecast for yearly net revenue by 37%, struck by slow need for building materials at home and a slumping Asian market amid growing exports from China. The company now predicts net profit of 130 billion yen ($ 844 million) for the to March 31, down from its August quote of 205 billion yen. JFE likewise cut its yearly dividend projection to 100 yen a share from its August forecast of 110 yen, while lowering its crude steel output intend on parent-basis to 22.4 million metric loads, down 0.6 million heaps from its earlier...