  | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock index futures slid on Monday on renewed anxiety over how Europe would tackle its sovereign debt crisis while Wal-Mart shares fell after a report about a stymied probe into bribery allegations. | | |  | | | | | ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss food group Nestle is to buy U.S. drugmaker Pfizer's baby food business for $11.85 billion, beating out French rival Danone in the battle for dominance of fast-growing emerging markets. | | | |  | | | | | BEIJING (Reuters) - Global car makers such as GM, Daimler, BMW and Peugeot are counting on China to maintain growth in their premium offerings, even as all the signs point to an overall slowing in the world's largest auto market. | | | |  | | | | | (Reuters) - ConocoPhillips , which is splitting into two stand-alone companies at the end of the month, reported lower-than-expected quarterly profit, hurt by weak refining margins, and its shares slipped in premarket trading. | | | |  | | | | | LONDON (Reuters) - Mobile phone group Vodafone has agreed to buy Cable & Wireless Worldwide (CWW) for 1.04 billion pounds ($1.7 billion), giving it a British fixed-line network to relieve the strain on its wireless operations from data-hungry smartphone users. | | | |  | | | | | (Reuters) - Allegations that Wal-Mart Stores Inc stymied an internal investigation into extensive bribery at its Mexican subsidiary are likely to lead to years of regulatory scrutiny and could eventually cost some executives their jobs. | | | |  | | | | | HANNOVER, Germany (Reuters) - China and Germany, the world's two biggest exporters, can nearly double their bilateral trade in the next three years, but must also improve their market access and combat protectionism, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said on Monday. | | | |  | | | | | (Reuters) - Kellogg Co cut its full-year outlook on Monday, citing a weaker-than-expected first-quarter performance, and its shares fell 6.3 percent. | | |  | | | | | BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Spain's budget deficit was confirmed at 8.5 percent of economic output in 2011 by the EU's statistics office Eurostat on Monday, dispelling doubts about the new Spanish government's reading of its national accounts. | | | | | | LONDON (Reuters) - Qatar Telecom has sent requests for proposals to international lenders for a $2 billion refinancing loan that will mark its return to the market after a two-year gap, bankers close to the deal said. | | | |  |  | | | A daily digest of breaking business news, coverage of the US economy, major corporate news and the financial markets. Register Today | | |  | |  | | | The latest Reuters articles on M&A, IPOs, private equity, hedge funds and regulatory updates delivered to your inbox each day. Register Today | | | | | | » MORE NEWSLETTERS | |
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