If the companies did tie up, it would combine AB InBev’s dominance in Latin America with SABMiller’s Africa presence, where it is the market leader in 15 countries.
The Massachusetts unemployment rate dipped one tenth of a percent to 4.6 percent in September, though the state lost more than 7,000 jobs, according to jobs numbers released Thursday by the Office of Labor and Workforce Development.
In emerging markets, Unilever had an underlying 8.4 per cent sales growth in the last quarter, boosted by strong sales in Latin America and good weather lifting ice cream sales.
At first glance it looks like the set of a James Bond movie – a seemingly impregnable mountain base packed full of uniformed men and sinister-looking missiles on their launch vehicles parked along a long tunnel buried deep underground.
It fuelled speculation that the ECB is preparing to ramp up its quantitative easing programme at the same time as the Bank of England and US Federal Reserve weigh up when to raise interest rates.
A woman police say was killed and then hung by her sleeve from a fence in Chillicothe, Ohio, has been identified as 31-year-old Rebecca Cade, the Dayton Daily News reports.
According to information presented by Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson in a press release, a few of the scammers even recite the victim’s mailing address or last four digits of their Social Security Number.
Barclays and other British banks were also weighed down by multibillion-pound bills over consumer-payment-protection insurance that hindered their ability to quickly shed unwanted assets.
Producer prices fell more than expected in September. Core inflation, which excludes food and energy, rose a modest 0.2 percent in September from the previous month.
Net income rose to US$4.29 billion, or US$1.35 per share, in the third quarter from US$2.84 billion, or 88 cents per share, a year earlier, when the bank had taken a near US$2 billion charge for litigation and restructuring costs. Excluding CVA/DVA, earnings were $1.31 per share,...
Schlumberger Limited has principal offices in Paris, Houston, London and The Hague, and reported revenues of $48.58 billion in 2014. The stock’s 52-week range is $66.57 to $100.54.