Adds: Prysmian, Intel, KKR, Marex Group Updates: Warner Bros Discovery, Ageas
April 14 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1330 GMT on Monday:
** Italy's Prysmian PRY.MI sold a 3.7% stake in Hong Kong-listed Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable (YOFC) 601869.SS for around HK$350.2 million ($45.16 million) to support its $1.15 billion acquisition of U.S. group Channell, the cable maker said .
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** Intel has agreed to sell a 51% stake in its Altera programmable chip business to buyout firm Silver Lake for $4.46 billion, in the first major move under new CEO Lip-Bu Tan to revive the struggling American chipmaker.
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** KKR <KKR.N> will buy a joint venture of S&P Global <SPGI.N> and CME Group <CME.O> in a $3.1 billion deal, in the U.S. private equity firm's second acquisition in less than a week despite a tariff whiplash slowing the pace of dealmaking activity.
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** Warner Bros Discovery <WBD.O> has decided not to sell Polish broadcaster TVN, it said, drawing a line under speculation surrounding the future of the company that is considered strategic by the Polish government.
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** Marex Group <MRX.O> has bought UK-based Darton Commodities, a trader of cobalt metal used to make aerospace and military equipment, the financial services firm told Reuters, declining to give further details.
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** Ageas <AGES.BR> has agreed to buy British car and home insurer esure from Bain Capital for 1.3 billion pounds ($1.7 billion) in a move that will create the third largest personal lines platform in the UK.
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** British oilfield services and engineering company Wood Group has received a proposal from Dubai's Sidara comprising a takeover bid worth about 242 million pounds ($318.4 million) and up to $450 million in cash, it said , boosting its shares.
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** Spanish telecom company Telefonica <TEF.MC> said on Sunday it had agreed to sell its Peruvian unit, which recently filed for bankruptcy protection, to Argentina's Integra Tec International for about 900,000 euros ($1.02 million).
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(Compiled by Rajarshi Roy and Katha Kalia in Bengaluru)
((Katha.Kalia@thomsonreuters.com;))
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