(Reuters) – Walgreens Boots Alliance has shelved plans for a potential initial public offering of its UK-based Boots drugstore chain as sale talks continue, Bloomberg News reported on Friday citing people with knowledge of the matter. The pharmacy chain is now exploring other options for Boots and has continued informal talks with potential buyers, including…
By Luc Cohen and Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A former Allianz fund manager pleaded guilty on Friday over his role in a meltdown of private investment funds sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic, and which according to prosecutors caused $7 billion of investor losses. Gregoire Tournant admitted to two counts of investment adviser fraud,…
By Tom Hals WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) – The legal team that voided Elon Musk’s record Tesla pay package deserves a tiny fraction of the $5.6 billion legal fee they requested because their lawsuit provided almost no benefit for the company, the electric automaker argued in court papers on Friday. Tesla said the legal team for…
(Reuters) – The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) voted on Friday to proceed with an investigation into whether solar panels from Southeast Asia are stifling domestic manufacturing, a step that could result in tariffs on the majority of panel imports. The four-member panel voted unanimously to pursue the probe into imports from Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia…
