STOCKHOLM, Feb 2Reuters Swedish lender Swedbank reported slightly worse than expected quarterly earnings on Wednesday, with a drop in interest income disappointing investors and sending its shares down more than 4. After tracking a robust recovery from the first waves of the COVID19 pandemic through much of 2021, Nordic economies hit a bump in the road […]

Reuters CocaCola Co raised its fullyear sales and profit forecasts on Wednesday, as demand rebounds for its beverages from the reopening of theaters, restaurants and stadiums. Shares of the worlds largest soda maker rose 2 in early trading. Revenue in CocaColas North America business rose 28 in the second quarter, helped by the vaccineaided reopening […]

ZURICH Reuters Swiss bank UBS on Tuesday posted a 63 rise in secondquarter net profit, as buoyant markets continued to help the worlds largest wealth manager generate higher earnings from managing money for the rich. Secondquarter net profit of 2.01 billion, up from 1.23 billion in the same quarter a year ago, far outpaced expectations […]

BERLIN Reuters German ecommerce pioneer Ralf Wenzels quickdelivery retail platform Jokr, which has gone live in seven countries since launching barely four months ago, said on Tuesday it had raised 170 million from investors to power growth. The Delivery Hero and Softbank veteran has styled the business as an Amazon on steroids and, with revenue […]

Reuters Zoom Video Communications Inc announced a 14.7 billion allstock deal to buy cloudbased call center operator Five9 Inc in its largestever acquisition, as competition intensifies in its core videoconferencing sector. The teleconferencing services provider has become a household name and investor favorite in the year since the coronavirus pandemic, as businesses and schools adopted […]

July 15 Reuters Hellman Friedman said on Thursday it had closed a 24.4 billion fund, the U.S. private equity firms largest ever, which will allow it to continue targeting largescale investments. Hellman Friedman Capital Partners X, the PE firms tenth fund, was significantly oversubscribed and reached its hard cap, it said. The fund also includes […]

SYDNEY Reuters Sydney Airport Holdings Pty Ltd said on Thursday it would reject a A22.26 billion 16.6 billion takeover proposal from a group of infrastructure funds, the biggest of a frenzy of Australian deals fuelled by recordlow interest rates. The operator of Australias largest airport said directors had unanimously concluded the proposal undervalued the airport […]

NEW DELHI Reuters Alphabet Incs Google is ramping up cloud infrastructure in India with a second cluster of data centres in and around capital New Delhi to meet increasing customer demands in a key growth market, senior company executives said. The Google cloud region in Delhi and its outskirts is the U.S. tech giants second […]

Reuters BlackRock Inc, the worlds largest asset manager, reported a betterthanexpected quarterly profit on Wednesday as investors poured more money into the companys funds, boosting its assets under management to new highs. BlackRocks assets under management jumped to a record 9.49 trillion in the second quarter from 7.32 trillion a year earlier. Revenue from investment […]

MSP Recovery, which helps recover money from Medicare and Medicaid secondary payments, will go public through a deal with a blankcheck firm, giving the combined company an enterprise value of 32.6 billion in the second biggest SPAC merger. The deal with Lionheart Acquisition Corp II is expected to fetch 230 million in proceeds for MSP, […]