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Itausa offering $850mn for Petrobras ‘gas unit’

Bloomberg A group led by Brazil’s Itausa Investimentos SA offered about $850 million for Petrobras’s bottled gas distributor. Petrobras said in a filing that Itausa, the holding company for Setubal and Villela families, in a consortium with Copagaz Distribuidora de Gas Ltda and Nacional Gas Butano, offered highest bid for Liquigas Distribuidora SA. The supplier of liquefied petroleum gas for …

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Markets left teetering as trade war derails Fed calming efforts

Bloomberg Any reassurance markets got from the Federal Reserve in Jackson Hole was wiped out within minutes. A volley of acrimonious presidential tweets and a nastier turn in the trade war sent Treasury yields, stocks and the dollar skidding into the weekend. Hopes that the central bank could guide markets to a cool-headed assessment of the US economy now look …

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Pound’s biggest Brexit risk is not what it seems to be

Bloomberg As markets bet on a no-deal Brexit, the real shock for pound traders could be Prime Minister Boris Johnson clinching a sudden deal. Sterling has tumbled in recent weeks as Johnson’s “do or die” stance has led traders to increase bets against the currency on the prospects of a no-deal Brexit on October 31. Yet a surge of nearly …

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