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Republic Tobacco for sale, may get over $2 billion - sources

Republic Tobacco is seeking a buyer and could fetch more than $2 billion in a potential sale. Republic Tobacco, a privately held company that makes the Drum brand of loose tobacco in the United States, is seeking a buyer and could fetch more than $2 billion in a potential sale, according to people familiar with the matter.


U.S. private equity fund backs Russia's bourse

A U.S.-based private equity firm has invested alongside a Russian state fund in Moscow's MICEX-RTS bourse.

U.S. venture capital invests $7 billion in second quarter

The U.S. venture-capital industry invested $7.04 billion in the last quarter. The U. S. venture-capital industry invested $7. 04 billion in the last quarter, down 12 percent from the $8.

China's CNPC in talks with Ecuador over $12.5 billion refinery

China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) is in talks with Ecuador's government over a potential investment in the OPEC-member's $12.5 billion Pacifico refinery project


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Private equity firm BC Partners and one of Canada's top pension funds are joining forces with the management of Suddenlink Communications to buy out the U.S. cable operator in a deal worth about $2.5 billion.
Danish luxury electronics maker Bang & Olufsen aims to boost growth in China through a strategic partnership
Investors are snapping up property near a proposed $45 billion business zone in the Chinese boom town of Shenzhen.
The easing of sanctions in Myanmar is encouraging western portfolio investors to start looking at the previously-restricted economy
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