Foreign Acquisitions of UK Companies Jump to £25.4 Billion in Q2

Foreign buyers completed £25.4 billion of UK acquisitions in Q2, up £9.7 billion from Q1, even as the number of inward deals fell to 162.

Foreign buyers completed £25.4 billion of UK acquisitions in Q2, up £9.7 billion from Q1, even as the number of inward deals fell to 162.

India’s economy expanded 7.8% year over year in the April-June quarter on the new 2022-23 base, with investment and services helping lift growth from a revised 6.9% a year earlier.

Aon agreed to acquire USI for $17 billion, a deal aimed at building a larger U.S. middle-market insurance platform and expanding access to the excess and surplus segment.

SAIC lifted fiscal 2027 revenue and adjusted earnings guidance after second-quarter revenue rose 6.3% and organic growth reached 5.3%.

The sNDA seeks accelerated approval for selinexor plus ruxolitinib after SENTRY showed a higher spleen-response rate but missed its symptom-score coprimary endpoint.

Germany’s provisional inflation rate rose from 2.8% in July as energy inflation accelerated, while core inflation held at 2.4% and services inflation eased.

Honda and Nissan said they have signed a joint development agreement to standardize core ECUs and software for next-generation software-defined vehicles starting from fiscal 2029.

Mining profits rose 6.8% in the June quarter, helping lift Australian company gross operating profits despite declines in retail and wholesale trade.

The share of Canadian businesses expecting cost-related obstacles fell to 59.8% in the third quarter, but 41.6% still saw inflation as an obstacle for the months ahead.

September reverses August’s NOK 474 million in daily net foreign-currency sales, driven by a NOK 650 million swing in the government-side conversion flow.