Swedish steel maker SSAB will invest 6.2 billion crowns ($611 million) in an electric arc furnace and raw material handling at its Oxelosund mill to slash greenhouse gas emissions, it said on Friday.
Spain's FCC has agreed to sell a quarter of its environmental subsidiary's share capital to Canadian global management group CPP Investments for 965 million euros ($1.06 billion), it said on Thursday.
Hungary has tweaked windfall taxes for key sectors of its economy, increasing the burden further on large retailers while cutting the extraordinary tax payable by drug producers.
As foreigners pile into Japan's steepest stock market rally in years, local investors have been furiously cashing out or even betting against what many see as the beginning of a long-overdue era of profitability and returns.