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The following deals, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures were reported as of 10:30 GMT Wednesday:
** US buyout firm Apollo said it had agreed to buy a 22% stake in Spanish industrial testing company Applus Services APPS.MC at 10.65 euros per share, raising its previous offer.
**Billionaire Bill Ackman and his Israeli-born wife Neri Oxman have agreed to buy a roughly 4.9% stake in the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) TASE.TA, the Israeli bourse said.
** SoftBank Group 9984.T sold another 2% in India’s Paytm PAYT.NS , the latest in a series of divestitures at the digital payments company.
** Nippon Steel 5401.T Executive Vice President Takahiro Mori met with members of the US Congress to discuss the acquisition of US Steel ‘operation.