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Cable & Wireless Worldwide has risen sharply Wednesday in the London Stock Exchange, on rumors of interest from U.S. rival AT & T.
The group was not immediately available for comment on this information.
At mid-day, action, Cable & Wireless gained 5.24% to 70.3 pence, after a while jumped nearly 13% in the [...]

Asahi Breweries and SABMiller are interested in operating in the Australian beer Foster's Group, valued over 10 billion dollars (7.9 billion euros), but no formal offer has yet been made, it was Monday learned from sources close to the matter.
The Sunday Times reported Sunday that SABMiller, the second brewer in the world, was [...]

Rio Tinto has committed to increase its investment to sustain growth after reporting earlier in the day a record net profit in the first half, thanks to buoyant sales of iron ore in China.
The second largest producer of iron ore, a key component in steelmaking, will increase its investments by 50% in 2011, [...]

The Japanese company Astellas Pharma has announced a fall of 18.2% of its current quarterly earnings and sharply reduced its annual earnings forecast, to take into account the cost of a license extension and the impact of yen appreciation .
Astellas said it would again cut its earnings outlook after the publication of its [...]

British Airways saw its loss widen in the first quarter of 2010-2011, under the combined effects of volcanic ash cloud and a strike, which did not deter the British airline reaffirmed its forecast of a pretax profit in equilibrium.
At about 8:00 GMT, the group, which saw its value melt a billion pounds over [...]

Publicis has raised its expectations for 2010 after having exceeded expectations in the first half to gain the favor of budgets and increased spending of its customers.
The third group in terms of global advertising revenues for 2010 it now expects organic growth above the rate of 3.5% estimated for the global market through [...]

European values rose again Tuesday, ending a five-week high, despite the announcement of a sluggish U.S. consumer morale, but below their highest of the day, as investors continued to anticipate an improvement conditions with some macroeconomic indicators and results of large groups considered encouraging.
In Paris the CAC 40 gained 0.83% to 3666.40 points, [...]

Carrefour has launched the sale of its operations in Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand, we learn from several sources with direct knowledge of the case.
This could generate approximately 800 million euros in the French distributor.
Crossroads works with investment banks Goldman Sachs and UBS on the transaction, which should attract the interest of [...]

U.S. consumer confidence plunged in June after three consecutive months of increases, due to concerns related to the job market, according to the index of employers' organization the Conference Board released Tuesday.
This index thus amounted to 52.9 in June against 62.7 (revised from 63.3) in May
Analysts polled by Reuters expected at [...]

Publicis expects organic growth above 3% in 2010, said Friday Chairman of its Executive Maurice Levy in an interview with Reuters on the sidelines of the festival "Cannes Lions".
He reported an acceleration of organic growth of Publicis in the second quarter compared to the first and perspectives become more favorable for the second [...]