Deals
Criteo Shares Jump on Report of Acquisition Talks With Publicis
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Criteo SA, the web-advertising company that went public last year, rose as much as 19.6 percent in Nasdaq Stock Market trading after a newspaper report that Publicis Groupe SA may be close to a deal to acquire the company.
Publicis started talks to buy the Paris-based agency three months ago and the negotiations could be concluded in coming days, Les Echos reported today, without saying where it got its information. Spokeswomen from Publicis and Criteo declined to comment.