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Asset manager Franklin Resources Inc
said on Tuesday it would buy mutual fund company Legg
Mason Inc in an all-cash deal valued at $4.5 billion,
including debt.
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Traffic was gridlocked in parts
of Athens on Tuesday as transport workers joined a strike over
planned pension reforms, while thousands marched peacefully
through the city centre demanding the draft law be scrapped.
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HSBC could be forced to take $600
million in additional provisions against loan losses if the
Coronavirus outbreak persists into the second half of this year,
Chief Financial Officer Ewan Stevenson said on Tuesday.
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* Talks with regulators over shareholdings to start
(Recasts with investor conference)
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China will cut some pension
contributions and insurance fees to help companies affected to
the coronavirus outbreak, state television quoted a cabinet
meeting as saying on Tuesday.
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Standard Chartered on
Tuesday said it will provide $75 billion in financing by 2024
towards sustainable development and clean energy projects, as it
expands on its aspirations to support the Paris Agreement on
climate change.
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Job growth accelerated in Ireland
in the final quarter of 2019, expanding by 3.5% year-on-year
compared with annual growth of 2.4 percent in the previous
quarter, data from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) showed on
Tuesday.
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When clients tell financial
adviser Catherine Valega that they want to invest their money in
women, they are not always clear what they mean.
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HSBC's
management ranks face uncertainty over jobs and pay in the
lender's most radical overhaul in years, as it seeks to slash
nearly $5 billion in costs and prune its underperforming
investment bank.
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Romania's Romgaz
said it has agreed with OMV Petrom and Poland's PGNiG
to make a joint offer for Exxon Mobil's 50%
stake in a long-stalled offshore natural gas project in the
Black Sea if the U.S. company decides to sell.