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Mid-America Apartment Communities Inc. confirmed Monday that it will buy Post Properties Inc. in an all-stock deal that values the apartment owner at just under $4 billion. Under terms of the deal, each Post Properties stock will be exchanged for 0.71 shares of new MAA stock. Based on Friday's closing prices, that values Post Properties shares at about $72.53 each, or a 17% premium. With about 53.5 million shares outstanding, according to FactSet, the bid would value Post Properties at about... Читать дальше...

Your adult child needs money again. Does your child even realize how much these constant requests upset you emotionally and financially?

Russia is opening up to an agreement with other major oil producers to freeze output, in a bid to boost crude prices, according to media reports on Monday. Alexander Novak, Russia's energy minister, said his country is consulting with Saudi Arabia and other producers to jointly cap production "if necessary," Arabic newspaper Asharq al-Awsat reported. "We are cooperating in the framework of consultations regarding the oil market with OPEC countries and producers from outside the organisation, and... Читать дальше...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was designated $12.7 million in cash payments from a pro-Russian Ukrainian political party, according to a New York Times report published Sunday night. The report cited Ukraine's newly formed National Anti-Corruption Bureau, whose investigators maintain the payments dated from 2007 to 2012 and were part of an illegal off-the-books system. The investigators have yet to determine if Manafort actually received the cash... Читать дальше...

U.K. stocks are wavering Monday, with the benchmark FTSE 100 hesitating after its longest winning streak in 10 months

U.K. business software company Sage Group PLC has warned that a data breach may have exposed sensitive information on employees at 280 companies that are its customers, media reports said Monday. "We believe there has been some unauthorized access using an internal login to the data of a small number of our UK customers so we are working closely with the authorities to investigate the situation," Sage said in a statement posted online. Police are investigating the possible insider hack at the Newcastle-based software maker... Читать дальше...

The dollar is little changed against the yen and euro early Monday, due to a lack of fresh trading cues and thin volume amid Japan’s summer holiday season.

Crude prices climb as investors are optimistic that prolonged low prices may drive major oil producers to reconsider a collective production freeze.

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Panic ensued at John F. Kennedy Airport on Sunday night after police received reports of shots fired at two different terminals, sparking a massive evacuation.

Asian markets edged up Monday as weak macroeconomic data bumped against chatter about the launch of the Shenzhen-Hong Kong trading link.

Asian markets edged up Monday as weak macroeconomic data bumped against chatter about the launch of the Shenzhen-Hong Kong trading link.

Travelers were evacuated from a terminal at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport on Sunday night, after apparently false reports that shots had been fired. A massive police presence searched the terminal, but found no evidence of a shooting, and no victims. The New York Port Authority, which runs the airport, issued a statement late Sunday, saying: "At this time, no gun shells or other evidence of shots fired has been found. The terminal was evacuated out of an abundance of caution."

Private-equity firm TPG has agreed to buy cable-television providers RCN and Grande Communications for about $2.25 billion including debt, according to people familiar with the matter, in a bet that demand for new broadband services will fuel growth in the businesses.

Honeywell International Inc. is nearing a deal to acquire JDA Software Group Inc., a maker of software that helps businesses manage their supply chains, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Honeywell International Inc. is nearing a deal to acquire JDA Software Group Inc., a maker of software that helps businesses manage their supply chains, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Over the past eight years, Usain Bolt has transformed the single most elemental contest in all of sport — the running of 100 meters — into a three-part act of performance art.

Two websites created in recent months and whose operators are believed to have ties to the Russian government now serve as portals for leaking sensitive and at times embarrassing information about the Democratic Party and its supporters.

Japan’s economy grew unexpectedly slowly in the second quarter as companies cut back on capital spending and exports fell, highlighting weakness in the world’s third-largest economy, despite massive government stimulus and central bank easing.

Beset by sagging poll numbers, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is stepping up his attacks on news organizations, suggesting that biased coverage is turning the election against him.

Fake payment orders submitted by cyberthieves who stole $81 million from Bangladesh’s account at the New York Fed gave a lot of unlikely reasons for needing to pay a handful of individuals large sums of money.

Fake payment orders submitted by cyberthieves who stole $81 million from Bangladesh’s account at the New York Fed gave a lot of unlikely reasons for needing to pay a handful of individuals large sums of money.

Takeo Morita wanted absolutely the best fidelity possible from his audio system, so he bought a utility pole.