Indonesian pension fund intends to bolster equity, bond holdings

The state-owned pension fund of Indonesia plans to boost its holdings in equities and bonds this year in order to improve the company's earnings, Bloomberg reported.


Apple snaps up Aussie photo startup SnappyLabs -reports

Tech giant Apple has purchases Australia-based startup SnappyLabs, a one-man team behind the photo app that augments iPhone's camera, according to earlier reports by TechCrunch and Recode.

Bitcoin exceeds $1,000 mark after Zynga accepts virtual currency

The price of Bitcoin went over $1,000 on Mt. Gox again today after Zynga Inc said it would be accepting the virtual currency, Bloomberg reported.

Israeli court gives control of IDB Holding Corp to Argentina's Eduardo Elsztain

The $570 million debt settlement offer that will give control of Israel's IDB Holding Corp to Argentine businessman Eduardo Elsztain was approved by a court in Tel Aviv, Bloomberg reported.


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JPMSL Copthall Mauritius Investment Ltd. has acquired a little over 1% stake in Cox & Kings by buying 6,84,216 shares on Friday and 8,13,172 shares the day before. Shares in Cox & Kings closed at INR136.15 apiece on Friday's trading.
GlaxoSmithKline has asked for the approval of India's Foreign Investment Promotion Board for its planned acquisition of a 24.33% stake in its Indian arm GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Ltd. GSK will fund the stake hike by investing INR6,400 crore.
A Mississippi bankruptcy judge on Friday approved the sale of bankrupt car rental company Advantage Rent A Car to Canadian private equity firm Catalyst Capital Group.
2013 had been the best sales year for the auto industry as US consumers bought 15.5 million vehicles. Ford Motor Co., Honda Motor Co. and Chrysler Group posted single-digit percentage gains, while General Motors Co. and Toyota Motor Corp. sales declined.
The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, Netherlands has pushed back an arbitration claim hearing involving Chevron Corp. and Ecuador to February. Chevron was indicted for environmental damage done in Amazon by Texaco.
Financial information provider SNL Financial in a report said that the five largest lenders in US control 44.2% of the industry's assets. JPMorgan Chase & Co, Bank of America,Citigroup,Wells Fargo & Co, and US Bancorp have a total of $6.46 trillion in assets.
Philadelphia Inquirer owners George Norcross III and Lewis Katz, who are at odds over the management of the newspaper company, are pushing it back to the auction block a few years after emerging from a bankruptcy.
Boeing Co.'s machinists on Friday voted 51% against 49% in favor of accepting a crucial labor contract, which means Boeing will build its 777X jetliner and wings in Washington state.
China said it would give more support to the domestic solar power industry as the government seeks to revamp a sector that is plagued with overcapacity and lower prices, Reuters reported.
China may topple the US as the top trader of the world for the first time when it unveils the value of trade of its goods for 2013, The Brics Post reported.