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Drahi says to keep focus on TMT businesses after Sotheby's deal

Billionaire Patrick Drahi said on Monday he would remain focused on his main telecoms and media businesses and would not sell any shares in his Altice Europe NV business to fund his acquisition of Sotheby's auction house.



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Factbox: Airbus and Boeing aircraft deals at Paris Airshow

Following is a summary of commercial aircraft deals announced by Airbus and Boeing at the Paris Airshow.



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KPMG to pay $50 million for using stolen data, exam fraud: U.S. SEC

KPMG LLC has agreed to pay a $50 million penalty over allegations former staffers used stolen information to alter some of the accounting firm's previous audit work and cheated on training exams, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said on Monday.



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Billionaire Patrick Drahi snaps up Sotheby's in $3.7 billion deal

Patrick Drahi, the billionaire behind telecoms and media group Altice, agreed on Monday to buy Sotheby's in a deal worth $3.7 billion, marking the storied art auction house's return to private ownership after 31 years.



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Pfizer makes $10.6 billion cancer bet in cash deal for Array Biopharma

Pfizer Inc on Monday said it would buy Array Biopharma Inc for $10.64 billion in cash, a deal it hopes will help make it a leader in colon cancer and build up its pipeline of oncology drugs.



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Fashion house Chanel parades its independence as profits rise

Luxury fashion group Chanel, whose star designer Karl Lagerfeld passed away in February, on Monday reaffirmed commitment to its independence after reporting higher annual sales and profits.



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Executive director of Puerto Rico's Oversight Board defends proposed restructuring deal

The executive director of Puerto Rico's Oversight Board is standing by the restructuring agreement with a portion of bondholders to address $35 billion of Puerto Rico's debt.

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Cramer: Facebook will 'take out' its all-time stock high after its expected crypto launch

"This is going to be the biggest thing that's happened to Facebook in years," says CNBC's Jim Cramer. "It will be vital."

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KPMG fined $50 million for using stolen data, exam fraud: U.S. SEC

KPMG LLP has agreed to pay a $50 million fine over allegations former staffers used stolen information to alter some of the accounting firm's previous audit work and cheated on training exams, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Monday.



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Hong Kong being pulled into the 21st Century — digital banking licenses finally arrive

Schulte Research | Paul Schulte | June 17, 2019 Digital banking finally arrives in HK --all in one go! Be careful what you wish for — you might get it.  Hong Kong People have been kvetching for years about the poor quality of banking services. Now, they will have a deluge of ultra-efficient and essentially

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Wall St. moves higher; Fed policy meeting eyed

Wall Street's main indexes climbed higher on Monday, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq leading the pack, as investors awaited a crucial Federal Reserve meeting that is expected to lay the groundwork for an interest rate cut later this year.



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Deutsche Bank to set up 50 billion euro bad bank in revamp

Deutsche Bank is planning to overhaul its trading operations by creating a so-called bad bank to hold tens of billions of euros of non-core assets, a source close to the matter said on Monday.



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Goldman Sachs is sounding the alarm: Technology stocks are overvalued

It's about time to write off high-growth tech stocks, Goldman warns, saying software carries the highest multiples since the tech bubble.

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Fed may cut rates near zero if U.S.-China trade worsens: Morgan Stanley

The Federal Reserve may lower U.S. interest rates to near zero by the spring of 2020 if U.S.-China trade relations deteriorate further and tip the U.S. economy into a recession, according to Morgan Stanley analysts.



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