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Zurich Insurance offers US$10 billion to buy UK insurer Beazley
[LONDON] Swiss insurance company Zurich Insurance Group has raised its offer to buy rival speciality insurer Beazley to 1,280 pence (S$22.016) per share in cash, it said on Monday...
HSBC on course for £300 billion valuation, top executive says
[LONDON] Weeks after its market value rose above £200 billion (S$344.6 billion) for the first time in its history, HSBC Holdings is now on course for a capitalisation in...
Thailand approves US$2 billion PCB manufacturing investment by joint venture
[BANGKOK] Thailand’s investment board said on Monday (Jan 19) it had approved an investment worth US$2.08 billion by a joint venture led by Taiwan’s Zhen Ding Technology, the world’s...
Micron to buy Taiwan chip fabrication site for US$1.8 billion
The investment is part of Micron’s global expansion as it seeks to meet continued demand for memory chips[NEW YORK] Micron Technology has signed a letter of intent to buy...
Musk seeks up to US$134 billion damages from OpenAI, Microsoft
ELON Musk wants OpenAI and Microsoft to pay him damages in the range of US$79 billion to US$134 billion over his claims that the generative AI company defrauded him...
Mitsubishi to buy Texas, Louisiana shale gas assets for US$7.5 billion
This will give it a substantial natural gas operation near the US Gulf Coast and the energy export facilities developed there[TOKYO] Japanese trading house Mitsubishi will buy the US...
ASML tops US$500 billion market cap as TSMC plans to spend more
[AMSTERDAM] ASML, the world’s biggest maker of equipment used to manufacture computer chips, crossed US$500 billion in market value for the first time on Thursday (Jan 15), after top...
MrBeast Says He Has “Negative Money” Banked Despite $2.6 Billion Net Worth
“She was studying in the U.K. and I really wanted to see her,” he explained, noting he doesn’t live near a major airport in North Carolina. “One time I...
QXO secures US$1.8 billion financing led by Temasek, Apollo amid building products consolidation
[GREENWICH, Connecticut] Billionaire Brad Jacobs’ QXO said it has secured an additional US$1.8 billion in financing, led by Singapore’s Temasek Holdings and Apollo Global Management, as the building products...
