Akzo Nobel NV

Dutch paints maker Akzo Nobel expects demand for its coatings in industrial sectors to stay muted in 2020, it said on Wednesday.

Dutch paints and coatings maker Akzo Nobel on Wednesday announced a new 500 million euros ($556 million) share buyback, as cost savings and higher prices helped drive up its third-quarter core profit by 23%.

U.S. author Toni Morrison, whose 1987 novel "Beloved" about a runaway slave won a Pulitzer Prize and contributed to a body of work that made her the first black woman to be presented the Nobel Prize in Literature, has died at the age of 88, her publisher said on Tuesday.

Dutch paints and coatings maker Akzo Nobel <AKZO.AS> posted a 36% jump in core profit in the second quarter as higher prices and cost savings offset weak demand from the car industry and higher raw material prices.

Dutch paints and coatings maker Akzo Nobel on Wednesday reported a better-than-expected 36% jump in second-quarter core profit to 305 million euros ($339.9 million), as higher prices and cost savings offset raw material inflation.

Shares in Akzo Nobel <AKZO.AS> fell 3 percent on Wednesday as the Dutch paints and coatings maker left analysts questioning whether its 2020 financial targets were overly ambitious, despite an increase in first-quarter profits.

Dutch paints and coatings maker Akzo Nobel on Wednesday said its first-quarter core profit rose 19 percent to 248 million euros ($278.2 million), as higher prices and cost savings offset raw material inflation.

Dutch paint maker Akzo Nobel on Wednesday posted flat fourth-quarter core earnings of 240 million euros ($272 million), but marginally beat expectations, and said it expected pressure from rising raw material costs to ease in 2019.

Dutch paints and coatings maker Akzo Nobel on Wednesday posted better-than-expected fourth-quarter core earnings of 240 million euros ($272 million) as higher prices helped offset lower volumes and a slowdown in China.

Euro-denominated loans are trading better on recent cross-border deals from issuers such as Refinitiv, the former Financial & Risk unit of Thomson Reuters, and Akzo Nobel’s chemical unit, in the midst of turbulent market conditions in the US.

* Akzo Nobel says raw material inflation to wane in remainder of 2018

Dutch paints and coatings maker Akzo Nobel said on Wednesday its core profit rose 8 percent in the third quarter to 243 million euros ($280.7 million), helped by higher prices and cost savings.

Maryse Conde from the French Caribbean territory of Guadeloupe was awarded the New Academy Prize in Literature, created after the Swedish Academy postponed this year's literary Nobel as it sought to deal with the aftermath of a rape scandal.

Dutch paintmaker Akzo Nobel <AKZO.AS> said on Tuesday it would return 5.5 billion euros ($6.4 billion) to shareholders after the sale of its specialty chemicals division closed this week, fulfilling a promise made in March to give shareholders a large majority of the proceeds...

Paints and coatings maker Akzo Nobel's <AKZO.AS> largest Dutch plant was operating at 40 percent of capacity on Tuesday, as workers began a 48-hour strike for better pay and higher pensions, a spokesman for the company said.

Akzo Nobel's speciality chemicals business may have to widen spreads on the €1.385bn bond backing part of its buyout by Carlyle and Singaporean wealth fund GIC as European investors resist terms that underwriting banks pledged to the sponsors.

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Akzo Nobel <AKZO.AS>, the Dutch paints and coatings maker, on Wednesday said its operating income fell 23 percent to 225 million euros (£199.92 million)

Dutch paints and coatings maker Akzo Nobel <AKZO.AS> on Tuesday reported a larger-than-expected 28 percent drop in first-quarter core profit as sales in the marine and oil industry continued to decline and raw material costs rose.