Press Digest: Wall Street Journal - March 29

Inflection Point Acquisition VII

29/03/2021 07:14

March 29 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in
the Wall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories
and does not vouch for their accuracy.
    
    - Engineers partly freed a wedged ship blocking the Suez
Canal, and tug boats are now working to straighten its course,
which could soon reopen the vital trade route and end days of
global supply disruptions. https://on.wsj.com/39oj45A
    
    
    - Nomura Holdings Inc  8604.T  said it could incur a
substantial loss from its dealings with a U.S. client, sending
shares in the Japanese investment bank tumbling and forcing it
to pull a large bond sale. https://on.wsj.com/3w1dPCu
    
    
    - CM Life Sciences II  CMIIU.O , a special-purpose
acquisition company focused on life sciences and backed by a
well-known shareholder activist is nearing a deal to merge with
protein-analysis company SomaLogic Inc, according to people
familiar with the matter. https://on.wsj.com/3tWuh58
    
    
    - News Corp  NWSA.O  is nearing an agreement to purchase the
consumer arm of educational publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Co  HMHC.O , according to people familiar with the matter, which
would mark the media company’s second deal in less than a week.
https://on.wsj.com/3ddgTCY
    
    

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