Here is a look at Wednesday’s business headlines with Jeff Vaughn, where he discusses Nike launching its new blue suede shoes and gas prices falling. BlackRock to acquire two ports serving Panama Canal Global investment firm BlackRock has agreed to acquire two ports serving the Panama Canal from Hong Kong’s C.

Hi, it’s Manuel Baigorri and Pei Li in Hong Kong, where we sat down with Bank of America’s Adnan Meraj to talk about private equity deals in APAC. Also today, Aramco weighs a bid for BP’s Castrol and more on BlackRock’s acquisition of ports in the Panama Canal.

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U.S. President Donald Trump has hailed a deal led by U.S. firm BlackRock to buy most of the $22.8 billion ports business of Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison, including assets it holds along the Panama Canal.

A consortium led by BlackRock has bought two ports on either side of the Panama Canal just a few weeks after President Trump threatened to use force to restore U.S. control over the energy chokepoint.

The $23 billion deal, announced by Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison Holdings, transfers control of the Balboa and Cristobal ports to a consortium led by BlackRock, Global Infrastructu

Hong Kong-based conglomerate has agreed to sell shares of its units that operate two key ports in Panama to BlackRock consortium.

A Hong Kong-based conglomerate has agreed to sell its controlling stake in a subsidiary that operates ports near the Panama Canal to a consortium including BlackRock Inc., effectively putting the port

BlackRock, America’s largest asset manager which handles over $11 trillion in assets, has agreed to purchase two ports on either end of the Panama Canal. BlackRock is buying the ports from Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison in a deal worth about $22.8 billion.

The deal comes after U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly threatened to take control of the Panama Canal and end what he sees as China’s influence over the waterway critical to global trade.

A deal struck by BlackRock to take control of two key ports on either end of the Panama Canal essentially aligns the world's largest money manager with preferences of the new Trump administration.