TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's third-largest lender by assets, Mizuho Financial Group ( MFG ), reported 17.9% growth in first-quarter profit on Wednesday as the long-awaited end of negative interest rates lifted profit margins on lending. For the April-June quarter, Mizuho reported group net profit of 289 billion yen ($1.89 billion), compared with 245 billion yen in the same period a...

PARIS (Reuters) - French group Veolia said it had agreed to sell its sulfuric acid regeneration business in North America to private equity firm American Industrial Partners for an enterprise value (EV) of $620 million. The disposal of Veolia North America Regeneration Services, which includes its sulfuric acid and hydrofluoric acid regeneration activities for refineries, forms part of Veolia's strategy...

PARIS, July 31 (Reuters) - Aircraft parts maker Howmet Aerospace ( HWM ) supplies a key component at the centre of recent delays in LEAP jet engine production, the head of one of the engine maker's parent companies said on Wednesday. Supplies of high-pressure turbine blades for the engines were disrupted when the production yield - or proportion of output...

PARIS, July 31 (Reuters) - French group Veolia said it had agreed to sell its sulfuric acid regeneration business in North America to private equity firm American Industrial Partners for an enterprise value (EV) of $620 million. The disposal of Veolia North America Regeneration Services, which includes its sulfuric acid and hydrofluoric acid regeneration activities for refineries, forms part of...