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(Corrects headline and first paragraph to clarify company is selling more than one business. Corrects paragraph 7 to say company sees annual profit ahead of its expectations not more than 900 million pounds) To sell FirstStudent, FirstTransit to EQT Infrastructure Proposes 30p per share return to shareholders in 2021 Shares rise as much as 19% to highest level in 13 months
April 23 (Reuters) - FirstGroup agreed to sell two North American bus businesses for $4.6 billion including debt to Swedish private equity firm EQT Infrastructure on Friday, to focus on its bus and rail operations in the UK.
Shares in the FTSE 250 firm, which operates First Bus and four train contracts in Britain, surged 19% in early trade to hit a more than one year high of 101.3 pence.
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BENGALURU (Reuters) - Indian shares fell on Thursday, as the country’s medical system groaned under an unrelenting rise in coronavirus infections, reporting record jumps in both daily cases and deaths.
A broker reacts while trading at his computer terminal at a stock brokerage firm in Mumbai, India, December 11, 2018. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas/File Photo
The NSE Nifty 50 index fell 0.32% to 14,251.15 by 0430 GMT, while the S&P BSE Sensex slid 0.44% to 47,494.41.
Both the indexes fell as much as 1% to hit their lowest in nearly three months, as concerns about a halt in the country’s nascent economic recovery intensified after it reported over 300,000 new cases on Thursday.
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BENGALURU (Reuters) - Indian shares fell on Thursday, as the country’s medical system groaned under an unrelenting rise in coronavirus infections, reporting record jumps in both daily cases and deaths.
A broker reacts while trading at his computer terminal at a stock brokerage firm in Mumbai, India, December 11, 2018. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas/File Photo
The NSE Nifty 50 index fell 0.32% to 14,251.15 by 0430 GMT, while the S&P BSE Sensex slid 0.44% to 47,494.41.
Both the indexes fell as much as 1% to hit their lowest in nearly three months, as concerns about a halt in the country’s nascent economic recovery intensified after it reported over 300,000 new cases on Thursday.
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FILE PHOTO: A representation of virtual currency Bitcoin is seen in front of a stock graph in this illustration taken January 8, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic
BERLIN (Reuters) - Deutsche Boerse said on Wednesday it would de-list the shares of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global from its Xetra trading system and the Frankfurt stock exchange by end of Friday’s trading session.
“The reason for the de-listing is a missing reference data for these shares,” Deutsche Boerse said, adding the de-listing would apply until further notice.
When Coinbase trading started at Deutsche Boerse’s platforms, a wrong reference code - a so-called LEI code - was used by mistake, Deutsche Boerse said. It was not clear whose mistake it was.
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TOKYO, April 20 (Reuters) - Japanese shares fell sharply on Tuesday, weighed down by worries that possible reintroduction of COVID-19 emergency measures in the country’s biggest cities would slow the economic recovery.
Selling was seen across almost all sectors, with only one of the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s 33 industry sub-indexes trading higher and just a more than dozen stocks up on the benchmark Nikkei share average.
The Nikkei fell 1.80% to 29,151.00 by 0141 GMT in its worst intraday drop in almost four weeks, while the broader Topix dropped 1.28% to 1,931.41 in its biggest slide in two weeks.
“It’s just like the decline is bringing another sell-off today,” said Shoichi Arisawa, general manager of the investment research department at IwaiCosmo Securities.