澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2015-10-14
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Good morning everyone. The world's two biggest bear makers1 are said to merge2 in one of the largest takeover deals in the world. South African brewer3 SAB Millers4 has accepted a 145 billion dollar takeover offer from Belgium's Anheuser-Busch. SAB Millers owns brands of just B and Carlton draught5, while Anheuser-Busch is the owner of Budweiser and Corona6. The deal means that a combined company would sell one at every three beers drunk around the world. And thus the deal needs to be carefully reviewed by regulators require for approval.
Social media company Twitter will shed more than 300 jobs or roughly 8% of its global
workforce7 as part of a restructing plan. The layout is on effort to drive growth in both profits and users. More than 300 million people use the messaging service, but Twitter has not turned to profit since it was founded in 2006. The move comes just days after co-founder J has confirmed as Twitter's permanent chief executive, and shares of Twitter jumped more than 12% following that announcement. Now to the global market. And a fall overnight over worries about slowing growth in China. The Dow closed down 50 points or 0.3%, the Nasdaq fell 0.2%, while the S&P 500 was down 0.7%. In London the FTSE finished down 0.5%.
Checking commodity prices. West Texas Crude is trading at 47 US dollars a barrel. Tapis crude is at 51 US dollars a barrel. And gold is trading at 1168 US dollars an ounce. The Australian dollar is currently buying 72 US cents, 64 Euro cents, and 47 Pence
sterling8.
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