MADRID, July 8 (Reuters) - The Grifols family and Canadian fund Brookfield have agreed to launch a joint takeover bid for Spanish drugmaker Grifols with the intent to delist it, the companies said in regulatory filings on Monday. Grifols said its board held an extraordinary meeting over the weekend to study a preliminary offer presented by Brookfield and the founding...

LONDON (Reuters) - Investment bank JPMorgan cut on Monday its forecast of the number of emerging market companies expected to default on their debt, following the biggest improvement in distressed-level market pricing since 2016. With some defaults out the way and others not having materialised, 2024 is also expected to be the first year since the start of the COVID-19...

05:51 AM EDT, 07/08/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Boeing ( BA ) and the US government reached an agreement in principle over their planned plea deal that would close the investigation into two fatal 737 MAX crashes, according to a Sunday court filing from the US government. Boeing ( BA ) confirmed to MT Newswires that it reached an agreement in...

July 8 (Reuters) - Similac baby formula maker Abbott is expected to face a trial on Monday over claims that its formula for preterm infants used in neonatal intensive care units causes a potentially deadly bowel disease, the second trial out of hundreds of similar lawsuits in the United States. Lawyers for the company and for Illinois resident Margo Gill...