Updated throughout the day.

“China’s state-owned Sinochem Corp has invited Temasek, the Singapore sovereign wealth fund, to join a consortium that may bid for Canada’s Potash Corp” (Reuters)

“J.C. Flowers & Co. and three other bidders for Ireland’s EBS Building Society may buy and merge several lenders to create a new competitor to the country’s biggest banks.” (Bloomberg)

Douglas A. McIntyre