What next in Aviva’s bid for Direct Line?

A combination would redraw the UK insurance market

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Insurance giant Aviva agrees to buy Direct Line for $4.6 billion

Aviva, the U.K.’s largest insurance company, has agreed to fully-acquire Direct Line for 275 pence per share, or £3.6 billion ($4.6 billion)
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Aviva agrees to buy Direct Line in £3.6bn insurance deal

Combined group would control a fifth of UK motor insurance market
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Aviva raises offer to buy Direct Line

FTSE 100 insurer makes second bid for its smaller rival at 261p a share
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Democratic candidates line up to become next DNC chair

Democrats vying to be their party’s next national chair are laying out their visions and touting their track records as they look to rebound from the party’s widespread losses in November. Former ...
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Bitcoin hit $100,000. What’s next?

Predictions from an arcane method popularised in 18th-century France
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France’s government looks on the brink of collapse. What’s next?

France’s minority government appears to be in its final hours as opposition lawmakers from the left and the far right vow to topple Prime Minister Michel Barnier’s Cabinet
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What’s Next for Google’s Search Monopoly

The federal judge who ruled Google was a monopolist in search is weighing the U.S. government’s proposal to force the company to sell its Chrome browser. Here’s what happens now.
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