This year, Chinese companies have become net sellers of global assets for the first time since entering the global mergers and acquisitions market. According to the research company Dealogic, the slowdown in China's economic growth and the trade war with the United States are affecting the current...

Purdue Pharma, the US-based producer of opioid painkiller OxyContin, commenced bankruptcy proceedings under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. This procedure is one of the conditions of the agreement reached the other day, under which the company intends to resolve claims from the...

A rare public spat between the blue chip Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs Group Inc and its client and tech giant Apple Inc was on display as the iPhone maker openly severely criticized analyst of Goldman Sachs.   The accounting methods followed by Apple for its new TV+ product was criticized...

The United Kingdom based retailer Sainsbury's has pledged that it would reduce ythe amount of plastic that it uses in its business by at least 50 per cent in 2025.   "We are well aware that this is ambitious as we currently use around 120,000 tonnes of plastic per year and reduce plastic...

United States lawmakers now want to get hold of internal documents from from Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple as a part of the US government’s investigations into big tech companies.   The leaders of the House judiciary committee, and its subcommittee on antitrust, sent out letters seeking...

Google will pay a total of €965 million to settle tax claims of the French authorities, reports Bloomberg. These payments are expected to put an end to the lawsuit against the company in France, which has been going on for four years. Google agreed to pay nearly €1 billion to stop investigation...

The development and launch of Facebook’s planned digital currency Libra in Europe will be blocked by France because it feels that it is threat to the  "monetary sovereignty" of various European governments.   Libra presented financial risks and could be used for financial abuse, said...

California adopted new rules, according to which Uber and Lyft drivers, Amazon and DoorDash couriers and other similar personnel will be considered employees of these companies, not independent contractors, as it was before. The need to provide social security for such employees can lead to an...

British energy market regulator Ofgem fined Engie Global Markets (EGM) £ 2.1 million ($ 2.57 million) following an investigation into fraud in the UK gas market by a trader in the French energy company. It turned out that from June to August 2016, the trader allegedly placed artificially inflated...