TOKYO (Reuters) - Blackstone and MBK Partners said on Wednesday the U.S. private equity firm is selling Japanese drugmaker Alinamin Pharmaceutical to the North Asian buyout fund. The deal size would be 350 billion yen ($2.17 billion), a source said on Tuesday, however neither Blackstone nor MBK in their separate statements disclosed the transaction value. Blackstone acquired Alinamin in 2020...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan began circulating its first new banknotes in 20 years on Wednesday, featuring three-dimensional portraits of the founders of financial and female education institutions in an attempt to frustrate counterfeiters. The notes use printed patterns to generate holograms of the portraits facing different directions, depending on the angle of view, employing a technology that Japan's National Printing...

TOKYO, July 3 (Reuters) - Blackstone and MBK Partners said on Wednesday the U.S. private equity firm is selling Japanese drugmaker Alinamin Pharmaceutical to the North Asian buyout fund. The deal size would be 350 billion yen ($2.17 billion), a source said on Tuesday, however neither Blackstone nor MBK in their separate statements disclosed the transaction value. Blackstone acquired Alinamin...

LONDON, July 2 (Reuters) - U.S. oil production continues to grow even as gas starts to turn down, with the diverging fortunes of the two sectors reflecting the much steeper slump in gas prices and drilling activity since the middle of 2022. Crude and condensates output from the Lower 48 states excluding federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico increased...