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Twinkies maker Hostess to go public under new owner

The Kansas City, Missouri-based snack cake company, which was founded in 1919, will be acquired by Gores Holdings Inc , a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). Including debt, the total value of the deal is about $2.3 billion, Hostess said. The company's products, especially the golden, cream-filled Twinkies cakes, are ingrained in American pop culture and have long been packed in children's lunch boxes.

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‘Sweetest’ town clings to Hershey, adding to takeover hurdles

The impact of such views goes beyond sentimental in the wake of Mondelez International Inc's $23 billion bid to buy the company, which Hershey said on June 30 it had rejected. The town of Hershey, where the company's staunchest loyalists are referred to as “Hershey-ites”, has real influence over corporate decisions. The Hershey Trust, a $12 billion school charity and the company's controlling shareholder, has become increasingly involved in the local community over the decades, and

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Tesla told regulators about Autopilot crash nine days after accident

By Alexandria Sage and Paul Lienert SAN FRANCISCO/DETROIT (Reuters) – Tesla Motors alerted regulators to a fatality in one of its electric cars in partial self-driving Autopilot mode nine days after it crashed, the company said on Tuesday, …

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Medivation agrees to open its books to Sanofi

San Francisco-based Medivation shares jumped as much as 4.2 percent after Reuters first reported that Medivation and Sanofi were in talks over a confidentiality pact, adding to similar agreements Medivation has with Pfizer Inc and Celgene Corp , which have also expressed interest in an acquisition. The move comes after Medivation rejected Sanofi's $9.3 billion offer in April, prompting Sanofi to embark on a campaign to convince Medivation shareholders to oust Medivation's

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U.S. factory orders fall, but rising backlogs hint at stabilization

By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – New orders for U.S. factory goods fell in May on weak demand for transportation and defense capital goods, but growing order backlogs and lean inventories suggested the worst of the manufacturing downturn was probably over. The Commerce Department said on Tuesday new

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Bank of Israel buying ‘hundreds of millions’ of dollars: sources

The Bank of Israel bought “hundreds of millions” of dollars of foreign currency on Monday, dealers said, after the shekel continued to strengthen for a fifth straight session. Its move came after financial newspaper TheMarker reported that the bank's intervention policy had come under fire by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's chief economics advisor, Avi Simhon, who was quoted as saying that intervention was tantamount to a protective tariff that raises prices for consumers by deterring import competition. The Bank of Israel has been …

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Global investment banks have slowest first half since 2012

By Anjuli Davies LONDON (Reuters) – Global investment banking fees fell by nearly a quarter in the first half of 2016 from a year earlier as market volatility hit capital markets and M&A deal making, Thomson Reuters data published on Monday showed. Global fees for services ranging from merger and acquisitions advisory services to…

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VW says U.S. ‘Dieselgate’ settlement not to be replicated in Europe

Volkswagen's CEO has rejected calls for the carmaker to compensate customers in Europe over the 'Dieselgate' emissions scandal along the lines of its $15 billion deal in the United States, telling a German newspaper a similar settlement would be inappropriate and unaffordable. Europe's Industry Commissioner Elzbieta Bienkowska last week called on Volkswagen to also compensate European owners of its diesel-powered cars, saying it would be unfair for them to be treated differently from U.S. customers just because of a different legal system. “We have a…

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Volkswagen brand chief says no plans to step down despite investigation

Volkswagen's brand chief, Herbert Diess, is not planning to resign even though he is the subject of investigation by public prosecutors, he told a German newspaper. “It's not up for debate,” Diess told Sueddeutsche Zeitung in an interview published on Monday, when asked if he had thought about stepping down as a result of the probe. Volkswagen's reputation will take 12-18 months to recover from

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Oil climbs as market seen in balance, but slow demand weighs

By Ahmad Ghaddar LONDON (Reuters) – Oil prices rose on Monday following comments from the Saudi energy minister that the market was heading towards balance, although signs of slowing demand in Asia weighed. The energy minister of Saudi Arabia, the world's top crude exporter, and …

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