June 13 (Reuters) - Britain's Spectris ( SEPJF ) said on Friday it has rejected a second takeover proposal from private equity firm KKR, days after the scientific instruments maker backed a possible competing $5 billion bid from Advent. Spectris ( SEPJF ) did not provide details on KKR's proposal, noting only that it was the second proposal by the...

02:02 PM EDT, 06/13/2025 (MT Newswires) -- KKR (KKR) submitted a preliminary cash offer to buy all shares of UK-based Spectris on June 5, but the board rejected the proposal, Spectris said in a statement Friday. This was KKR's second approach to Spectris, and the company has not received any new proposal since then, Spectris said. KKR has asked for...

SYDNEY, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Google agreed on Monday to pay a A$55 million ($35.8 million) fine in Australia after the consumer watchdog found it had hurt competition by paying the country's two largest telcos to pre-install its search application on Android phones, excluding rival search engines. The fine extends a bumpy period for the Alphabet-owned internet giant in Australia,...

LONDON (Reuters) -Oil market participants have switched to dreading a shortage in fuel from focusing on impending oversupply in just two days this week. After Israel attacked Iran and Tehran pledged to retaliate, oil prices jumped as much as 13% to their highest since January as investors price in an increased probability of a major disruption in Middle East oil...