$21 billion. Softbank has kicked off the sale in several transactions of more than $21 billion worth of shares in T Mobile US, about two-thirds of its 24.6% stake, with the balance subject to options granted to Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile's largest shareholder, to acquire them by 2024.

New share issuance. American Airlines announced its intention to issue 74.1 million new shares at a unit price of $13.50, compared to a closing price of $14.92 on Monday, and $1 billion in convertible bonds due 2025.

A major collab. Sanofi and Translate Bio are extending their collaboration to develop mRNA vaccines against all categories of infectious diseases, with the French laboratory’s entry into the American group’s capital. An initial payment of $425 million is planned (part of which will be made through the equity investment). The agreement could represent a total of $1.9 billion for Translate Bio, if all the steps are completed.

Mac is leaving Intel. Apple's decision to equip its Macs with its own processors was revealed yesterday, ending a 15-year collaboration with Intel. At its conference for developers, the Californian group also announced a number of new features, in particular a strategy of enhanced convergence between the various home terminals.

DB's best non-investment. According to information obtained by Bloomberg, Wirecard has explored a merger with Deutsche Bank in 2019. But the bank has quickly abandoned the discussions. The agency bases itself on a document produced by McKinsey, which does not name the two companies by name but provides enough information to identify them. 

Mastercard offers Finicity. Mastercard has signed an agreement to buy the financial data provider Finicity for $985 million, including $160 million based on the company's future performance.

End clause. Microsoft is going to stop its streaming game service, Mixer, on July 22nd, due to a lack of sufficient users compared to its major competitors. The biggest player in the sector, Twitch (Amazon) held about 60% of the market in 2019.

Triumvirate. The research firm eMarketer predicts that Google's advertising revenues and market share in the United States will fall for the first time in 2020, to the benefit of competitors, especially Amazon.com and Facebook. Google's market share in digital advertising could thus fall from 31.6% to 29.4%, according to the research firm's projections. Facebook could increase from 22.7 to 23.4% and Amazon.com from 7.8 to 9.5%.

A €10 billion deal for Roundup? Bayer could be close to an agreement to stop thousands of lawsuits in the United States against Roundup, accused of causing cancer. This could cost the purchaser of Monsanto between 8 and 10 billion euros, according to the Handelsblatt.

In other news. The aeronautical equipment manufacturer Spirit Aerosystems is seeking to renegotiate its banking covenants to deal with the economic difficulties resulting from the Covid crisis. Unsurprisingly, the European Commission has launched an in-depth investigation into the London Stock Exchange's takeover of Refinitiv. Chevron is expected to resume oil exports in July from operations that had been put on hold under the joint venture with the Saudi and Kuwaiti authorities. Gilead will start clinical trials on an inhaled version of Covid-19.