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S&P Global to buy IHS Markit in $44 billion mega deal

(Reuters) - Data giant S&P Global Inc has agreed to buy IHS Markit Ltd in an all-stock deal worth $44 billion that will be the biggest corporate acquisition of 2020 and create a heavyweight in the increasingly competitive market in financial information. The mega deal, which IHS Markit Chief Executive Officer Lance Uggla told employees in a memo had been in the...

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Regulators says Basel III bank capital work is done

By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - Global banking regulators on Monday drew a line under a decade-long project to toughen up capital requirements and urged lenders to use the flexibility in rules to support pandemic hit customers. The Governors and Heads of Supervision (GHOS), a body that oversees the Basel Committee of banking regulators that writes capital standards for lenders, stopped short of...

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OPEC Meetings Begin, Zoom Earnings, Stocks Consolidate – What’s up in Markets

By Geoffrey Smith  Investing.com -- OPEC begins two days of meetings on the course of its production policy. The Trump administrations adds CNOOC (NYSE:CEO) and SMIC to its blacklist. Stocks are set to take a breather after a muted Black Friday weekend, and Zoom reports earnings. Here's what you need to know in financial markets on Monday, November 30th. 1. OPEC gathers The...

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Exclusive: Abu Dhabi wealth fund in talks with KKR over Italian grid deal – sources

By Giuseppe Fonte and Elvira Pollina ROME (Reuters) - Abu Dhabi's biggest sovereign fund is in talks with U.S. firm KKR to invest in Telecom Italia (MI:TLIT)'s (TIM) last-mile network in a deal that has drawn scrutiny from Italy's government, three sources close to the matter told Reuters. Rome typically welcomes foreign investments but demands assurances that investors will follow the...

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Poste Italiane denies CEO may be a candidate to replace UniCredit’s Mustier

MILAN (Reuters) - Poste Italiane on Monday dismissed media speculation that Chief Executive Matteo Del Fante, a former JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) banker, could be one of the candidates to take the helm at UniCredit. "Speculation that Del Fante is among potential candidates for the top job at UniCredit is completely groundless," the Italian post office said in a note. Doubts about the future...

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Amazon, Apple stay away from new French initiative to set principles for Big Tech

By Michel Rose PARIS (Reuters) - U.S. tech giants Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) have not signed up to a new French initiative to get global tech companies to publicly commit to principles including paying their fair share of taxes, government officials said on Monday. French President Emmanuel Macron has sought for the past three years to cajole tech giants into collaborating...

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Up to 100 of Johnson’s lawmakers are unhappy with COVID lockdown, minister says

LONDON (Reuters) - Up to 100 lawmakers in Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party are unhappy with his COVID-19 tiered lockdown measures so the government may have to rely on the Labour Party to get it through parliament, Environment Secretary George Eustice said on Monday. "The chief whip will be talking to those MPs who have concerns," he said. "I've seen...

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UK mortgage approvals jump again to 13-year high

LONDON (Reuters) - British lenders approved the highest number of mortgages in over 13 years in October, Bank of England data showed on Monday, suggesting no let-up yet in a post-coronavirus lockdown bounce-back in the country's housing market. Mortgage approvals for house purchase hit 97,532, up from 92,091 in September and higher than a median forecast of just under 84,500 in a...

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Sweden’s Ericsson sees 220 million 5G subscriptions by year end

By Helena Soderpalm and Supantha Mukherjee STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's Ericsson (BS:ERICAs) on Monday raised its global forecast for 5G mobile subscriptions to 220 million by the end of this year, citing faster than expected uptake in China. The telecoms equipment maker, which had previously forecast 190 million subscriptions, said it expects China to account for almost 80% of the newly forecast total....

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European Stocks Mixed; Virus and Brexit Talks in Focus

By Peter Nurse  Investing.com - European stock markets traded mixed Monday, with investors focusing on virus concerns and ongoing Brexit trade negotiations at the end of a positive month. At 3:55 AM ET (0855 GMT), the DAX in Germany traded largely flat, the CAC 40 in France fell 0.4%, while the U.K.'s FTSE 100 index rose 0.3%. Largely positive news surrounding potential vaccines...

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