Imperial Brands Plc, the maker of John Player Special cigarettes in the UK, will buy back as much as £1.1 billion ($1.3 billion) worth of shares, buoying the stock after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak proposed curbs on cigarettes and vaping.
The Cricket World Cup may boost host country India’s economy by as much as 220 billion rupees ($2.6 billion), economists at Bank of Baroda estimate.
Dubai cemented its status as the world’s busiest market for luxury homes with buyers pouring $1.59 billion into high end properties during the third quarter, according to Knight Frank LLP.
Metro Bank Holdings Plc has hired Morgan Stanley to explore a potential capital raise after it faced pushback from regulators on a plan that would allow it to reduce the capital its required to hold.
Elon Musk has made good on a promise to strip out headlines from news organizations’ posts on the X Corp. platform formerly known as Twitter.
Doosan Robotics Inc. nearly doubled in its trading debut in Seoul after raising 421 billion won ($312 million) in South Korea’s largest initial public offering this year.
Asset manager White Summit Capital has started a financing round for a new infrastructure fund focused on decarbonization, with the aim of reaching a first close of as much as €300 million ($315 million) by the end of this year.
Philippine inflation accelerated to the fastest pace in four months in September as rice prices surged, boosting the case for the central bank to resume monetary policy tightening as soon as next month.
Norway’s oil and gas is helping to fuel the nascent recovery in US initial public offerings.
FirstRand Ltd. named Mary Vilakazi as the first black female chief executive officer of Africa’s biggest lender by market value.
