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If Ignazio Is Right… Look Out Below

On our recent Chairman’s Circle Private Wealth Cruise from Rome to Marseille – with stops along the way in Villefranche-sur-Mer, Saint-Tropez, Corsica, Ibiza and other spots easy on the eye – a few of my colleagues and I decided to skip the tour of Florence.

We’d been there a few times before and so decided to spend the day visiting some of the smaller towns in Tuscany.

We hired a private driver – a chatty, middle-aged fellow named Ignazio – and headed out.

Along the way, I asked Ignazio whether he and his fellow citizens were optimistic about Italy’s future.

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KWS seeks to buy Bayer’s vegetable business, countering BASF

German seed seller KWS Saat (KWSG.DE) has made an eleventh-hour bid for Bayer’s (BAYGn.DE) vegetable seed business, which Bayer is selling to BASF (BASFn.DE) to get approval of its planned purchase of Monsanto (MON.N). KWS, the world’s No.1 supplier of sugarbeet seeds, on Tuesday said its non-binding proposal was first made to Bayer on Jan. 26, but not disclosed to investors at the time. Frustration over Bayer’s rejection despite a “highly attractive price” led KWS to break cover on the bid, in the hope that antitrust regulators will regard it more favourably, KWS Chief Executive Hagen Duenbostel …read more […]