Of announced deals so far this year to more than a trillion dollars. Well today, there was more deal talk. A lot of it. First, a deal rejected. The chip maker altera reportedly said no to an intel offer of 50 a share or so. That would have been a better than 40 premium to alteras stock price when dl talks revved up a few weeks ago. Altera makes programmable chips, which is what attracts intel. Had the deal gone through, it would have been intels biggest acquisition ever. Shares of altera jumped 3 while intel was off fractionally today. Now to a deal accepted. Linkedin is snapping up the online career skills site linda. Com, for 1. 5 billion. Its biggest purchase ever. It hires courses for professionals. Linda will bulk up the social Services Like linking up professionals. With all the announced deals in m a so far this year 2015 is running at record or near record levels. If the pace continues, our guest says the price tag for the year could exceed 3 trillion in activity worldwide. Tha
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Of rare earth and 60 percent of lithium are processed in china. So we will identify strategic projects all along the supply chain, from extracting to we fine from processing to we cycling and we will build up Strategic Reserves where supply is at risk. This is why today i am announcing a european critical Raw Materials act. You Commission President ursula vander line. Theyre speaking in strasburg, france. Europe may be questioning aspects of its trade with china. But b ging also has its own economic concerns of late from rising debt loads to tenacious unemployment. Thats the backdrop. As premier she gene ping heads abroad this week. For the 1st time since the pandemic is traveling to cause extent. And it was back as dan friendly territory where he can tell trade relations and where hes expected to meet russian president vladimir putin. For more in this, im joined by fabi, an credit for in beijing fabi. And i want to begin with the e. U. Another signal that brussels wants to move some o
Ah, listen carefully. Dont know how to miss today. Ah, feel the magic discover the world around you. Subscribe to d w documentary on youtube. Blue is 1st foreign trip in 1000. 00 days. She jean ping travels to central asia to talk trade and to potentially meet with russian president Vladimir Putin. Will take a look at why hes traveling ahead, traveling abroad now. Also on our show, German Farmers find new ways of squeezing every last drop of a drop of water from their surroundings without further stressing ground supplies. And the end of an error in the u. K is driving new demand for memorabilia related to the queen loan. Welcome to the show. Im seen beardsley in berlin. We begin in strasbourg, france, where you Commission President or sl of underline, has announced a proposal to lower the blocks dependents on china for critical Raw Materials such as lithium, in the front line, calling for new efforts to identify projects and build reserves that could secure supplies of rare earths in
Processing industry. Almost 90 percent 90 percent of rare earth and 60 percent of lithium are processed in china. So we will identify strategic projects all along the supply chain, from extracting to we fine from processing to recycling. And we will build up Strategic Reserves where supply is at risk. This is why today i am announcing a european critical Raw Materials act. You Commission President ursula vander line. Theyre speaking in strasbourg, france. Europe may be questioning aspects of its trade with china, but b jing also has its own economic concerns of late from rising debt loads to tenacious unemployment. Thats the backdrop as premier she gene ping heads abroad this week. For the 1st time since the pandemic is traveling to cause extent, and it was back as dan friendly territory where he can tell trade relations and where hes expected to meet russian president Vladimir Putin. For more in this, im joined by fabi on credit for in beijing fabi, and i want to begin with the e. U.