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An employee carries a stack of bamboo steamer baskets as cooks make xiaolongbao dumplings in the kitchen at a restaurant in Shanghai.

Mastercard, in an effort to gain entry into the Chinese market, is looking toward a joint venture that may help the card giant get a credit card license in that country.

Coal is Australia’s biggest export earner and the Australian dollar tumbled on the news, falling more than 1% to as low at $0.7086 AUD=D3.

23.09 GMT: That's going to bring Wednesday's live edition of Transfer Talk to a close. Thanks very much for joining us, and be sure to check back in a few short hours when we return with the latest gossip pulled from Thursday's back pages.

Thanks, Josh. 2018 was our second highest year of origination since inception at $2.2 billion, primarily due to the larger financings completed during the first half of the year. During Q4, we generated gross originations of $373 million across four new investments and outside of the six existing portfolio companies.

Trump’s threats to security clearances—especially of a still-serving official like Ohr—may actually be more consequential to the intelligence workforce than his expressions of disregard for their product. In a profession that often deals in classified information, livelihoods depend on clearances. Then, of course, there was the five-week government shutdown, which stalled investigations and delayed paychecks at the FBI. The FBI Agents Association released a report during the shutdown in which field agents testified to damaged morale. Otherwise, it’s hard to measure the impact the president’s attitude has had across the 17-agency intelligence community.     

Bonucci had previously been a target for Premier League clubs Chelsea, Manchester City and Manchester United but eventually moved to the San Siro after falling out with Juve.

So understanding that your portfolio companies are not agented, they're not as fluid on the capital structure side. How do you feel about your deeper vintage and their ability to find financing options before maturity?

Shares of General Mills (GIS) and Conagra (CAG) fell about 4% on Friday. Campbell Soup (CPB) plunged around 8%.

ABIOMED, Inc engages in the research, development, and sale of medical devices to assist or replace the pumping function of the failing heart. It also provides continuum of care to heart failure patients. The company offers Impella 2.5 catheter, a percutaneous micro heart pump with integrated motor and sensors for use in interventional cardiology; and Impella CP, a device used by interventional cardiologists to support patients in the cath lab and cardiac surgeons in the heart surgery suite.

“That is the mechanism that gives us flexibility to make additional modifications so long as we provide adequate protection for bond holders. This fund is the vehicle to provide that protection by having a fund that is solely there for the benefit of bond holders,” said the treasurer.

Ninetowns Internet Technology Group Company Limited is a software company that enables enterprises and trade-related People’s Republic of China Government agencies to streamline the import/export process in China. It operates in four segments: enterprise software and related maintenance services , software development services segment, B2C e-commerce and, and real estate development.