Mediobanca delayed a shareholder meeting to vote on its takeover bid for Banca Generali to give insurer Assicurazioni Generali, majority owner of Banca Generali, time to evaluate the proposal.

Roche discontinued the commercial and clinical use of Elevidys after two cases of fatal acute liver failure.

Spectris said it received a takeover approach from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., which it rejected.