South African retailer Pepkor Holdings Ltd terminated a deal on Thursday to sell Building Co Proprietary to Cashbuild Ltd after the country's competition regulator recommended that the deal be blocked. (Reporting by Yadarisa Shabong in Bengaluru; Editing by Shounak Dasgupta)
An uncommonly cold week across Ivory Coast's cocoa-growing regions has tempered hopes for a strong start to the upcoming main crop, which is due to begin in October as the rainy season draws to a close, farmers said on Monday.
Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional Bhd will aim to raise its high-impact and commercially viable investments over the next five years through a 6 billion ringgit ($1.4 billion) internal fund to help build up the nation's economic competitiveness and resilience.
China's weak lending numbers and increased business scrutiny, political tensions in Poland, and central bank decisions in Turkey, Mexico and Peru headlined emerging market moves on Thursday. The MSCI's index of emerging market stocks fell 0.4% as Chinese shares slipped with.