By the standards of sharper-elbowed markets, the recent dust-up between activist investor Strategic Capital and the Tokyo Stock Exchange is positively mild. For Japan’s historically sleepy stock ...

The $33 billion offer to buy out Toyota Industries rests on shareholders acquiescing in effectively financing a large slug of the deal. As a shocking example of how to engineer around Japan’s ...

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The S&P 500’s surge to $51 trln comes in the face of a weakening labor market, presaging a drag on the US economy’s consumption engine. Investors seem to anticipate that bad news could lead to ...

BPCE, the Paris-based mutual, is buying Novo Banco for 6.4 bln euros. The valuation looks reasonable, and Lisbon seems on ...

The porn-heavy platform is in talks to sell to a US investor group. An $8 bln valuation implies a lower multiple than the ...

Breakingviews provides financial professionals with unique agenda-setting insight on the major financial news stories as they break globally every day.

Breakingviews provides financial professionals with unique agenda-setting insight on the major financial news stories as they break globally every day.

Breakingviews provides financial professionals with unique agenda-setting insight on the major financial news stories as they break globally every day.

Breakingviews provides financial professionals with unique agenda-setting insight on the major financial news stories as they break globally every day.

Israel struck the Islamic Republic just as it was discussing a US nuclear deal that could have eased tensions. Much depends on how and where Tehran responds. Spare Saudi capacity can offset short-term ...

Investors in emerging market stocks get biblical returns. Seven years of plenty are often followed by seven lean ones. The ...