Bloomberg Global equity investors remain most bearish on the UK’s stocks among major markets, Bank of America Corp (BofA) said, even after a partial recovery in British assets following September’s ‘mini budget’ turmoil. A net 25% of fund managers are underweight UK stocks, according to BofA’s latest survey. While that’s an improvement from last month — which saw a …

  Bloomberg Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. took a position in Jefferies Financial Group Inc. even as it trimmed its stake in financial stocks including US Bancorp and Bank of New York Mellon Corp. The conglomerate held more than 433,000 shares of Jefferies, the New York-based investment bank, as of September 30, according to a quarterly filing Berkshire was a …

  Dubai / Gulf Time The Mena region witnessed 524 deals worth AED202.76 billion ($55.2 billion) during the first nine months of the year, according to the latest EY Mena M&A Insights report. Rising inflationary pressures, dampening economic demand and global market disruptions resulted in moderate growth in deal activity of 6% year-on-year (YoY) while deal value slipped by 23% …