Mergers and Acquisitions

A prominent New York City developer who has advised the Trump administration on infrastructure is denying reports he cheered on the president's decision not to pay half of the $13 billion cost of a new commuter rail tunnel between New York and New Jersey.

Broadcom's move comes a day ahead of planned talks between the semiconductor companies to discuss the potential $121 billion deal, which will be their first such discussion, people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Sunday.

Greece's state privatization agency says it has launched a tender to sell a five percent stake in the country's dominant OTE telecom company.

Xerox's plan to sell itself to Japan's Fujifilm Holdings has come under further pressure with Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason urging fellow shareholders to oppose the $6.1 billion deal.

Walgreens Boots Alliance has made a takeover approach to drug distributor AmerisourceBergen, a move that could help boost profitability at the drugstore giant.

A proposed sale of The Weinstein Co. is in question after New York's attorney general filed a lawsuit saying that any deal would have to include assurances of financial compensation for women abused by co-founder Harvey Weinstein.

Acquiring the drug distributor could help boost profitability at Walgreens and insulate it against external threats in an increasingly competitive health-care landscape.

President Donald Trump's long-awaited infrastructure plan calls for giving government agencies the authority to sell off airports, roads and other federal assets.

Britain's competition regulator said last month that Fox's $15.7 billion deal to buy the 61 percent of Sky it does not already own should be blocked unless a way is found to prevent Murdoch influencing Sky's news output.

General Dynamics's $40.75-per-share cash offer represents a premium of 32 percent to CSRA stock's closing price on Friday.

Comcast is considering a new offer for Rupert Murdoch's Twenty-First Century Fox assets, despite an agreement in December to sell them to Walt Disney Co for $52.4 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.

Magazine and broadcasting company Meredith says it's closing a customer service center in Tampa, Florida, as it integrates the operations of Time Inc., which it acquired last week.

Chipmaker Qualcomm said on Thursday its board had unanimously rejected Broadcom's revised $121 billion buyout offer.

The summer home of the late billionaire philanthropist David Rockefeller on Maine's Mount Desert Island has sold for $19 million.

The Latest on the sale of The Los Angeles Times to a local billionaire (all times local): 7 p.m.

The California newspaper is ending its strained tenure under the owner of the Chicago Tribune.

Soon-Shiong, a major shareholder in Tronc and chief executive of NantHealth, will also buy the Times' sister newspaper, the San Diego Union-Tribune.

Tronc, the owner of the Los Angeles Times, is expected to announce a sale of the newspaper to billionaire biotech investor Patrick Soon-Shiong, a source familiar with the matter said.