Qatar ups Sainsbury stake
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The royal family of the Gulf kingdom of Qatar raises its stake in supermarket group Sainsbury's to 25%.
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J SAINSBURY&#39;s shares picked themselves up from a near-18 month low today as long-suffering shareholders&#39; appetites were whetted by talk of &#39;dream team&#39; bids for the ailing supermarkets giant.
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US sports tycoon Malcolm Glazer has raised his stake in Manchester United Plc to 27.63 percent from 25.3 percent, the Premier League club said on Tuesday, heightening speculation that he will bid for them.
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World crude prices climbed on Tuesday, as Qatar&#39;s energy minister said OPEC would not move next week to increase the cartel&#39;s oil output to battle tight global supplies amid strong energy demand.
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The family of US sports tycoon Malcolm Glazer says it has raised its stake in Manchester United to 27.6 percent from 25.3, making it almost the largest shareholder in the world's richest football club.
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Shares in takeover target National Foods have pushed further ahead on the Australian Stock Exchange. Yesterday, they surged more than 5 per cent higher to $6.25, after Philippine food and drink giant San Miguel
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US sports tycoon Malcolm Glazer has raised his stake in Manchester United for the second time in three days. Mr Glazer spent Â£17m ($31m) on another six million shares on Monday to lift his holding in the club to 27.
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The Qatar Investment Authority said Thursday it had acquired a 20 percent stake in the London Stock Exchange, the same day that Borse Dubai announced a deal to acquire the Nasdaq Stock Market's 28 percent stake in the LSE.
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Business & money: Shares in the supermarket group soared by almost 5% after the State of Qatar announced it now owned 25% of the supermarket giant's shares.
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Sainsbury's is approached by a Middle Eastern investment fund about a possible Â£12bn  takeover, the FT claims.
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Saudi Arabian investors bought a large stake in UBS  along with the Singapore government, the Financial Times reported, amid rising shareholder discontent over the Swiss bank's losses.
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Vodafone  shares  climbed on Monday after the British mobile phone giant beat  rival suitors with an $11.1 billion bid for a controlling stake  in Hutchison Essar, India's fourth-biggest cellphone firm.
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Shares in Debenhams rise more than 7% after a Dubai-based investor ups its stake in the firm.
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The royal family of Qatar is considering a full takeover offer for supermarket J Sainsbury, a report says.
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Shares in Tesco climb 2% as it emerges that a firm owned by Warren Buffett has a stake in the supermarket chain.
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J Sainsbury Plc , Britain's third-biggest supermarket operator, said on Friday it had sold a 5 percent stake in Sainsbury's Bank for 21 million pounds ($41 million) to British banking group HBOS Plc .
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Britain's third-biggest grocer, J Sainsbury, is the target of a five-billion-pound (7.2-billion-euro, 9.1-billion-dollar) takeover bid.