UK-based cybersecurity firm Darktrace agrees to sell itself to private equity firm Thoma Bravo for about $5.32 billion trib.al/N27NGDm

Anglo rejects BHP's £31 billion proposal, NatWest beats expectations, and consumer confidence edges up -- get briefed ahead of your morning calls with The London Rush trib.al/SwmWqhn

A growing number of fixed-income funds in China is setting limits on investor inflows, seeking to manage expectations amid a demand spike in the world’s second largest bond market. trib.al/KBHqJc4

Bonjour, New York? The boss of TotalEnergies says “there’s a case” to move the company’s listing from Paris as he navigates the energy transition, Javier Blas writes #OOTT trib.al/LYqQyLW via Bloomberg Opinion

As private schools have spent decades showing that fee-paying parents were an easy mark, they shouldn't be too surprised that politicians have learned the same lesson, writes Matthew Brooker trib.al/crNWswu via Bloomberg Opinion

Two videos and two impending assaults suggest Israel's Netanyahu is at a fork in the road. He should focus on saving hostages, says Marc Champion trib.al/NSnTqDV via Bloomberg Opinion

If American policymakers seem on edge about China’s ability to catch up with the US on artificial intelligence, they probably shouldn’t be, Parmy Olson writes trib.al/4hspzD4 via Bloomberg Opinion

🎧 The first episode of Voternomics is here

Stephanie Flanders, Adrian Wooldridge and @allegrastratton will help listeners make sense of the elections that will affect markets, countries and economies like never before

Their first guest: Niall Ferguson ➡️ bloom.bg/3QmjXkB

Vietnam’s market regulator rejected Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange’s proposal to start a new system to clear trades faster, delaying an upgrade that’s been eagerly anticipated by local investors trib.al/5MCzYDu

Hitachi says it will buy back up to 2.27% of its shares for as much as $1.3 billion and announced a five-for-one stock split trib.al/8ZiNcdi

APS Asset Management founder Kok-Hoi Wong is preparing to step down as chief investment officer of the Singapore-based hedge fund in the coming year trib.al/A4nECAr

Japan must implement laws to better regulate companies like Meta when they fail to address social media scams, the head of the ruling party’s digital promotion working group says trib.al/iJp9spm

CVC Capital Partners and its investors raised €2 billion in an initial public offering, bringing the long-delayed listing process for one of Europe’s marquee private equity firms to a resolution trib.al/UNHkiXn

NatWest Group beats earnings estimates as lending and deposits increase amid signs of improving customer confidence trib.al/B8YuKIE

🎧 The first episode of Voternomics is here

Stephanie Flanders, Adrian Wooldridge and @allegrastratton will help listeners make sense of the elections that will affect markets, countries and economies like never before

Their first guest: Niall Ferguson ➡️ bloom.bg/3QmjXkB

An Indian fund manager who went contrarian and sharply reduced the average maturity of his flagship bond fund is further cutting the duration on the expectation the central bank won’t reduce interest rates before global peers trib.al/pxoVvg7

TotalEnergies reported a smaller-than-expected drop in first-quarter profit as a resilient oil market partly offset lower gas prices trib.al/Ontcsls

Chinese stocks are having a stunning week with the Hang Seng Index on track for its best week since 2011 trib.al/aHwcs2N

WATCH: The second phase of voting in India's general elections began. Voters across 13 states, including Uttar Pradesh, are heading to polling stations to cast their ballots trib.al/yzsOrMh

A teardown of Huawei's new phone reveals the latest version of its controversial made-in-China chip trib.al/sCOaxUv