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By David McLaughlin & Annie Massa, Bloomberg If you hold a stock market index fund, congratulations. The S&P 500’s total return was a thumping 31.5%...

Hasbro’s US$3.8 billion deal to acquire film and TV studio Entertainment One has been given the green light by the UK’s antitrust body. The Competition...

Romania's competition authority announced on Tuesday, September 3, it will analyse the recent takeover of Banca Romaneasca by EximBank for compliance with antitrust regulations. "In...

Sunrise Communications faces an uphill battle to complete its takeover of Liberty Global’s Swiss network after its largest shareholder said it would oppose a rights...

A congressional antitrust panel plans to examine whether the White House improperly influenced merger oversight, including the Justice Department’s lawsuit to block AT&T’s takeover...

Biopharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly has agreed to buy Loxo Oncology in a deal valued at US$8 billion. Eli Lilly said it will pay US$235 a...

Britain’s competition watchdog announced on Wednesday, December 5, that PayPal’s US$2.2 billion takeover of Swedish financial technology startup iZettle would be referred for an...

Civil engineering conglomerate Murray & Roberts said on Friday, June 8, it had asked South Africa’s competition authorities to stop its biggest shareholder from...

Britain's government says it does not intend to refer US media conglomerate Comcast's £22 billion (US$30.7 billion) takeover offer for London-based Sky to competition...

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has approved grocery retailer The Co-Op’s £137.5 million (US$191.7 million) takeover of retailer Nisa after finding that...