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Asia’s biggest buyout sees GIC-backed firm get $11.6bn

Bloomberg A Chinese consortium agreed to pay S$16 billion ($11.6 billion) for Global Logistic Properties Ltd., the warehouse operator backed by Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, in Asia’s biggest buyout. GLP accepted the takeover offer from a management-backed group that includes private equity firms Hillhouse Capital Management and Hopu Investment Management. The group, which also includes founder Ming Mei’s SMG, Bank ...

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Infosys raises sales forecast despite stagnant IT spending

Bloomberg Infosys Ltd. raised its annual revenue outlook after eking out a 1 percent rise in quarterly net income, as newer digital services helped it bag contracts despite shrinking client budgets. Asia’s second-largest outsourcer of IT services forecast a 7.1 to 9.1 percent climb in revenue for the year ending March 2018 on a US dollar basis. That beat analyst ...

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Hottest commodity in China may start to cool before long

Bloomberg These are great times for China’s gargantuan steel industry as product prices soar to multi-year highs, mills’ profits swell and speculators stake out record positions in futures markets in the country that makes half of global supply. They could be over soon. While demand in Asia’s top economy has remained strong, “as the property market cools and investment growth ...

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