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Another round of attempted consolidation in the Italian banking industry has kicked off this morning.
Polymarket has been very much in vogue ever since the cryptocurrency betting firm accurately predicted The Donald would be re-elected as US president.
BP has finally agreed to sell a 65pc stake in its lubricants business to private equity firm Stonepeak.
Some readers may have begun their holidays but the deal stories are still rolling in.
Malcolm Moore of the Financial Times has picked up an intriguing line about the BP takeover rumour that would appear substantiate this year's relentless reports about Shell weighing a takeover bid for its FTSE 100-listed rival.
There weren't too many deal scoops in the British newspapers this weekend but there were plenty of opinion pieces and editorials about the Shell - BP hullabaloo created by rivals at the Wall Street Journal last week.
Well, this morning's denial from Shell of yesterday's Wall Street Journal's 'scoop' about the FTSE 100 oil giant's 'active' takeover talks with BP is about as categorical as you can get.
It took a while but the Wall Street Journal has finally decided to follow up little old Betaville's UNCOOKED alert from earlier this year about the BP takeover rumour.
Mark, "The Kleinmanator", Kleinman of Sky News has finally decided to jump onto the BP takeover tale that has been circulating since little old Betaville first broke the rumour earlier this year.
Hacks at the venerable Financial Times have finally jumped onto the BP takeover story after arch rivals at Bloomie stirred the pot again last weekend with its tale about Shell taking a look at the FTSE 100-listed oil giant.
Three months after little old Betaville first revealed that FTSE 100 oil giant BP was at the centre of takeover talk arch rivals at Bloomberg have decided to run their version of the tale.
Arch rivals at Bloomberg did well yesterday to dig out the takeover scoop on London-listed information provider GlobalData.
Punchy stuff from Alistair "Acerbic" Osborne in today's business section of The Times.
Tucked away in the centre of The Sunday Times business section is an excellent interview of the billionaire owner of the left leaning New Statesman magazine by the 'Genteel Hustler', also known as William Turvill.
I see arch rivals at Bloomberg have followed up little old Betaville's UNCOOKED Alert about BP with their own twist on situation.
There weren't too many deal scoops in the British Sunday newspapers this weekend but one piece caught little old Betaville's eye.
It would appear Mark "The Kleinmanator" Kleinman of Sky News and City AM has decided to air the Shell - Total merger tale that has been circulating around the City of London in the last couple of weeks.