Bloomberg Amundi SA agreed to buy Pioneer Investments from Italy’s UniCredit SpA, accelerating the French investment company’s growth in the US and European markets including Germany and Austria. Amundi will pay about 3.5 billion euros ($3.7 billion) in cash, the Paris-based company controlled by Credit Agricole SA said in a statement on Monday. It will pay for the purchase …

  LONDON / AP Like many foreign scientists in Britain, Joanna Bagniewska was devastated when Britons voted to leave the European Union. The biology lecturer, a Polish migrant who found Britain a welcoming place to build her academic career over a decade, is suddenly seeing her job security and research prospects up in the air. “I’m worried that after my …

  Bloomberg 21st Century Fox Inc. and Sky Plc executives are working with their advisers to nail down final terms of an 11.2 billion-pound ($14.1 billion) deal that would consolidate Rupert Murdoch’s television empire across two continents. Fox’s co-chairmen, the 85-year-old media baron and his son Lachlan, have been intimately involved in discussions to purchase the 61 percent of UK …