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London Stock Exchange Group is making its largest acquisition since Refinitiv, agreeing to pay $3.535 billion in cash for credit intelligence provider Octus. The deal moves LSEG deeper into private and illiquid credit just as the boundary between traditional bond markets and private lending is becoming less distinct. Octus,
Netflix delivered a highly profitable third quarter, but investors focused on the part of the report that looked less mature: advertising. The streaming company cut its 2026 ad-revenue forecast to about $2.7 billion from approximately $3 billion, citing a slower-than-expected rollout of some advertising product capabilities.
Silgan Holdings is using an unusually structured acquisition to get larger in metal packaging while freeing its faster-growing dispensing business from some of the balance-sheet burden. The company and funds affiliated with American Industrial Partners agreed on Monday to acquire Trivium Packaging at a $3.4 billion enterprise
Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda has sharpened the case for further monetary tightening, telling parliament on Monday that underlying inflation is now “quite close” to the central bank’s 2% target. The significance is not that an October rate increase is assured. It is that Japan’s policy debate
Indonesia’s stock market suffered its sharpest one-day decline in nearly three decades on Friday after MSCI proposed moving the country from emerging-market to standalone status. The Jakarta Composite Index fell as much as 11.4%, its steepest drop since January 1998, after an 8% opening slide triggered
Progressive’s latest results deliver two messages that investors should resist compressing into a single earnings number. The insurer’s core underwriting remained highly profitable in the third quarter, while changes in the value of its investment portfolio showed how quickly a large balance sheet can complicate an otherwise strong
Rio Tinto’s third-quarter production update offers evidence that its strategy is moving from capital-heavy construction into operating delivery. Stronger iron ore shipments, accelerating copper production at Oyu Tolgoi and the early ramp-up of Simandou are beginning to broaden a company that still depends heavily on its
Omron is paying $675 million to move industrial computing closer to the center of its factory-automation strategy. The Japanese manufacturer said it agreed to acquire Interlogic and its operating company OnLogic, a Vermont-based maker of rugged industrial PCs, through a reverse triangular merger. The transaction, signed October 10
Wall Street’s biggest banks will open third-quarter earnings season this week under an unusually demanding set of expectations. JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Wells Fargo are scheduled to report on Tuesday, followed by Bank of America and Morgan Stanley on Wednesday. Their results will arrive as investors
China is moving to put a higher price on speed in the world’s largest auto industry. Four government agencies released draft rules on Saturday that would pull safety reviews and longer testing requirements directly into the vehicle-approval process, challenging an industry where rapid model launches and increasingly elaborate
SpaceX has turned a spectrum purchase into a sudden repricing of the U.S. wireless industry. The company said Thursday that it agreed to acquire 100% of Grain Management’s nationwide 800 MHz spectrum portfolio, giving its Starlink Mobile business access to as much as 14 megahertz of paired low-
