{"id":40321,"date":"2019-08-01T12:24:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T12:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40321"},"modified":"2019-08-01T12:24:58","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T12:24:58","slug":"london-stock-exchange-buys-data-provider-refinitiv-in-27-billion-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40321","title":{"rendered":"London Stock Exchange buys data provider Refinitiv in $27 billion deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">London (CNN Business)<\/cite>The London Stock Exchange has agreed to buy financial data provider Refinitiv, creating a British rival to industry juggernaut <a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2015\/04\/17\/investing\/markets-bloomberg-terminal-outage\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg<\/a>. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Refinitiv shareholders will end up owning a 37% stake in the London Stock Exchange. The all-share deal values Refinitiv at $27 billion, including its debt.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The purchase comes less than a year after <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2018\/12\/04\/media\/reuters-layoffs\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">news and information provider<\/a> <span>Thomson Reuters<\/span> <span>(<span class=\"inlink_chart\"><a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=TRI&#038;source=story_quote_link\" class=\"inlink\">TRI<\/a><\/span>)<\/span> sold a majority stake in Refinitiv to a group of investors led by private equity group Blackstone.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London (CNN Business)The London Stock Exchange has agreed to buy financial data provider Refinitiv, creating a British rival to industry juggernaut Bloomberg. Refinitiv shareholders will end up owning a 37% stake in the London Stock Exchange. The all-share deal values Refinitiv at $27 billion, including its debt.The purchase comes less than a year after news&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}