SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -South Korea's Samsung SDI said on Wednesday it has completed an agreement with General Motors to build a joint electric vehicle (EV) battery factory in the U.S. state of Indiana. The two companies will invest about $3.5 billion to build a battery cell manufacturing plant with an annual production capacity of 27 gigawatt hours (GWh) initially, Samsung SDI...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Seven & i Holdings must act fast to negotiate a takeover bid from Canada's Alimentation Couche-Tard that has historic implications, according to a fund manager at shareholder Artisan Partners. Couche-Tard, owner of Circle-K convenience stores, last week sounded out Seven & i about a possible acquisition, a deal that would be the biggest ever overseas buyout...

TOKYO, Aug 28 (Reuters) - A global aluminium producer has offered Japanese buyers a premium of $185 per metric ton for October-December primary metal shipments, up 8% from the current quarter, two sources directly involved in quarterly pricing talks said on Wednesday. Japan is a major Asian importer of the metal and the premium for primary metal shipments it agrees...

Aug 28 (Reuters) - Ukraine's drones set several oil tanks on fire at the Glubokinskaya oil depot in Russia's Rostov region, several Russian Telegram channels reported on Wednesday. Rostov's governor, Vasily Golubev, said in a Telegram post that four Ukraine-launched drones were destroyed over the region, but made no mention of an attack on an oil depot. Reuters could not...