Mergers and Acquisitions

AXA, Europe's second-biggest insurer, has agreed to buy property and casualty insurance company XL Group for around $15 billion.

A former Obama administration official on Thursday reached a deal to purchase assets of The Weinstein Company and said she will use a majority-female board to rebuild the Hollywood studio tarnished by sexual misconduct allegations.

A group of investors says it has revived a deal to buy assets of the Weinstein Co., potentially saving the beleaguered studio from bankruptcy.

Ring, which also makes cameras and other home security gadgets in addition to its trademark video-enabled doorbells, will operate under Amazon’s massive e-commerce umbrella in a deal valued at more than $1 billion, according to Reuters.

The political strategist and online guru who was named President Donald Trump's 2020 campaign manager Tuesday has a close financial relationship with a penny-stock firm with a questionable history that includes longstanding ties to a convicted fraudster, according to an Associated Press investigation.

Comcast, the biggest cable operator in the United States, offered to pay $31 billion to buy Sky, the European pay-TV group that has agreed to be sold to Rupert Murdoch's Fox.

Berkshire has plenty of cash to purchase an airline, if Buffett chooses to do so.

DowDuPont is announcing the names of the three businesses it will become when it breaks itself into three, eight months after the Justice Department approved a $62 billion merger between the chemical giants Dow and DuPont.

U.S. delivery giant UPS has launched court action against the European Union's anti-trust regulator for blocking a merger with Dutch firm TNT and is seeking 1.742 billion euros ($2.14 billion) in compensation.

Qualcomm urged Broadcom to enter into direct negotiations on a price for merging the two companies.

The Weinstein Co.'s board of directors says the company is expected to file for bankruptcy protection after last-ditch talks to sell its assets collapsed.

The Latest on investor Warren Buffett's annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders (all times local): 8:45 a.m.

Investor Warren Buffett says the acquisition frenzy on Wall Street is making it hard for him to find deals at the right price, but his Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate recorded a $29 billion gain because of the tax reforms Congress passed.

General Mills is buying Blue Buffalo Pet Products Inc. in a deal valued at about $8 billion.

U.S. packaged foods company General Mills will buy natural pet food maker Blue Buffalo Pet Products in an $8 billion cash deal,

China's insurance regulator is to take over management of insurer Anbang, owner of New York's famed Waldorf Astoria hotel.

Greece's supreme court has approved a large private urban development project on the prime seaside site of the old Athens airport, which is a key element of the country's bailout program.