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  Bloomberg Big Internet and software deals are rare. That may change in 2016. Microsoft Corp.’s $26.2 billion deal for LinkedIn Corp. could trigger other large-cap M&A for business software and Internet companies. NetSuite Inc. and Ultimate Software Group Inc. could both be targeted by companies including SAP SE, IBM Corp. and Oracle Corp. that want to strengthen their cloud-computing ...

  BLOOMBERG Growing anxiety over the prospect of the U.K. exiting the European Union dominated financial markets, sending global stocks down for a third day and the British pound to an eight-week low while boosting demand for havens such as the yen and gold. In Europe, equities headed for the lowest close since February and the pound weakened against most ...

  Bloomberg The oil market just hit a yellow light. Crude’s advance of more than 90 percent from a 12-year low earlier this year has U.S. shale producers starting to return to their drilling rigs, threatening to slow further gains. “The $50-to-$60 a barrel area is the sweet spot,” said Mark Watkins, the Park City, Utah-based regional investment manager for ...

  Bloomberg Five years ago, when Eric Ries was working on the book that would become his best-selling entrepreneurship manifesto “The Lean Startup,” he floated a provocative idea in the epilogue: Someone should build a new, “long-term” stock exchange. Its reforms, he wrote, would amend the frantic quarterly cycle to encourage investors and companies to make better decisions for the ...

  Bloomberg Itau Corpbanca is the Latin American lender that offers investors the juiciest potential returns, equity analysts say. It’s also the worst performer in the region as investors ignore buy recommendations and wait for a recovery in its earnings. Itau Corpbanca’s 12-month average target price is 31 percent above the current price, the largest difference among 27 Latin American ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business England’s early elimination from the Euros 2016 could wipe £6 billion off the stock market in a single day, a finance expert from London Business School has warned. Alex Edmans, Professor of Finance, London Business School, on Sunday said the effect of football results on national mood is so strong that it can spill over ...

  Bloomberg Arriving late to the mining boom helped Peru defy a global freeze on project spending as prices plunged. Now the pipeline’s drying up, and the country’s chances of joining neighboring Chile as a copper superpower depend largely on the next president’s affinity with remote communities. For Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, who secured the majority of votes in presidential election, ...

  BLOOMBERG Weeklong rallies for global stocks and commodities ended as the outlook for economic growth rekindled investor caution. The MSCI All-Country World Index fell for the first time in six days after reaching a six-month high, and futures on the S&P 500 indicated the gauge will slip after closing close to a record high. The Bloomberg Commodity Index was ...

  Bloomberg For Brazil’s enormous chicken industry, facing a surprise domestic shortage of corn with which to feed its birds, the solution seemed obvious: import the grain from the U.S., where stockpiles have never been bigger. Yet there have been no imports from the U.S. so far this year, even though the corn shortfall is so severe that the chicken ...

  Bloomberg Glencore Plc agreed to sell just-under a 10 percent stake in its agriculture unit to Canada’s British Columbia Investment Management Corp. for $624.9 million in cash as it continues to cut debt. The commodities trader and miner, which sold a 40 percent stake in the business to Canada Pension Plan Investment Board for $2.5 billion in April, will ...