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Q: (Reuters) - Saks Fifth Avenue owner Hudsonâs Bay Co (HBC.TO) said on Wednesday it had received a bid for its German department store chain Kaufhof from  Signa  Holding  the Austrian property and retail group that owns Karstadt  another German retail chain.
The announcement came after Reuters reported earlier on Wednesday  citing sources  that  Signa  had made a 3 billion euro ($3.5 billion) offer for Kaufhof. Hudsonâs Bay did not comment on the bidâs value  and  Signa  declined to comment.
 Signaâs offer  comes one week after Hudsonâs Bay agreed to sell its flagship Lord & Taylor building in New York for $850 million to WeWork Cos.
The Reuters sources said that  Signa  expects Toronto-based Hudsonâs Bay  which has been reluctant so far to engage in negotiations to sell Kaufhof  to respond to  the offer  by the middle of November.
Hudsonâs Bay called  the offer  incomplete  non-binding and unsolicited  with no evidence of financing.
The sources said that in its offer letter to Hudsonâs Bay   Signa  stated  its  bid for Kaufhof would not be contingent on any third-party financing  since  it  already has 700 million euros in approved financing from European banks  and also has cash available from a 1 billion euro equity raise last month.
 Signa  has also offered to assume all of Kaufhofâs liabilities  including a 1.34 billion euro real estate loan by German bank LBBW  the sources added.
Hudsonâs Bay said it plans to review  the offer  in due course. It added that its European business is an important element of the companyâs strategy  and that it remains focused on executing its strategy and plans for the upcoming holiday season.
At a valuation of 3 billion euros including debt  Signaâs bid values Kaufhofâs real estate at 2.63 billion euros  the sources said.
Signa tried to buy Kaufhof in 2015  but Hudsonâs Bay outbid it by paying 2.5 billion euros including debt for the German chain and its Belgian subsidiary. Since then  Kaufhofâs finances have deteriorated  to the point where vendors are finding it more difficult to find trade credit insurance to make shipments.
âHudsonâs Bay board of directors should  consistent with its fiduciary duties  seriously consider the reported  Signa  fully financed 3.0 billion euro offer for Hudsonâs Bay European business  which is above the Companyâs purchase price and stated net asset value â Lands and Buildings CEO Jonathan Litt said in a statement.
 Privately held Signa   founded 17 years ago by property developer Rene Benko  now runs more than 125 retail locations in Northern Europe  generating annual revenue of about 3.8 billion euros  according to  its  website.  It  owns a big real estate portfolio with a gross asset value of more than 10 billion euros.
 Signa  bought Karstadt from the brink of bankruptcy in 2014 for the nominal consideration of just one euro from  its  majority owner Nicolas Berggruen  son of an international art dealer.
 Signa  restored Karstadt to profitability: realigning  its  offerings closer to the tastes of German consumers  cutting costs and making operations more efficient. Karstadt and Kaufhof are now the two largest department store operators in Germany.
Last month   Signa  said  it  had completed an equity raise of 1 billion euros  giving  it  more firepower to pursue acquisitions.

A: Signa
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Q: CLOSE White House Spokesman  Sean Spicer  doubled down on  his  claim that President Trump's inauguration was the most watched in history.  He  also said  his  intention is to "always tell the truth " but said there may be disagreement over the facts. (Jan. 23) AP
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway claimed that âalternative factsâ were employed by  Press Secretary Sean Spicer  when he tried to make the case that âthis was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration  period  both in person and around the globe.â Actually   Spicer  got several facts wrong.
 Spicer  then read a prepared statement later that day  further criticizing the media for âdishonesty.â
 Spicer   Jan. 21: "Secondly  photographs of the inaugural proceedings were intentionally framed in a way  in one particular tweet  to minimize the enormous support that had gathered on the National Mall. â¦ We know that from the platform where the president was sworn in  to 4th Street  it holds about 250 000 people. From 4th Street to the media tent is about another 220 000. And from the media tent to the Washington Monument  another 250 000 people. All of this space was full when the president took the oath of office. We know that 420 000 people used the D.C. Metro public transit yesterday  which actually compares to 317 000 that used it for President Obamaâs last inaugural. This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration â period â both in person and around the globe."
At a Jan. 23 press conference   Spicer  made an alternative argument  saying the number of people watching the inauguration on TV  online and in person had to be the largest ever.
âI have a right to say if you add up the network streaming numbers  Facebook  YouTube  all of the various live streaming that we have information on so far  I donât think thereâs any question it was the largest watched inauguration  ever â  Spicer  said.
On that point   Spicer  may be correct. While Nielsen TV ratings were higher in past years  some data suggests online viewership was up compared with 2009. But there is no comprehensive measurement available that would prove or disprove this claim.
On NBCâs Meet the Press  host Chuck Todd asked White House counselor Kellyanne Conway  â[W]hy the president asked the White House press secretary to come out in front of the podium for the first time and utter a falsehood?â Conway responded: âDonât be so overly dramatic about it  Chuck. What â Youâre saying itâs a falsehood. And theyâre giving Sean Spicer  our press secretary  gave alternative facts to that.â
PBSâ âNewsHourâ also posted a timelapse video of the crowd throughout Inauguration Day  which shows it didnât quite stretch back to the Washington Monument  as Trump and  Spicer  said. And as our fact-checking colleagues at The Washington Postpointed out  other journalists had more photographic evidence on Twitter.
Metro ridership. At the press conference   Spicer  also gave inaccurate numbers for those taking the Washington  D.C.  Metro system for Trumpâs inauguration compared with Obamaâs.
But thatâs not what Metro said  and  Spicer  acknowledged that during  his  Jan. 23 press conference.
 Spicer âs 317 000 figure was the number Metro gave for riders as of 11 a.m. on Inauguration Day 2013. The comparable number  for 11 a.m.  for Trumpâs inauguration was 193 000.
Crowd-size experts.  Spicer  was right about one thing: It appears  as  he  said  that no one has scientifically calculated estimates of the crowd size for Trumpâs inauguration. Congress has prohibited the National Park Service from making official estimates after it produced an official estimate that 460 000 turned out for the so-called âMillion Man Marchâ in 1995  prompting organizers to threaten a lawsuit.
 Spicer  argued that floor coverings over the grass on the National Mall âhighlight[ed] where people were not standing  while in years past the grass eliminated this visual.â
âI donât know how  [Spicer]  kept a straight face when he said that â Doig said.
TV and online viewership. But at the Jan. 23 press conference   Spicer  emphasized the combined audience â in person  watching on TV and watching online â was the highest in history. Asked if he was now saying that it was the largest in-person crowd for an inauguration   Spicer  said  âI am not. I am saying that it was the total largest audience witnessed in person and around the globe.â

A: Sean Spicer
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Q: FILE PHOTO - A staff member removes the Iranian flag from the stage after a group picture with foreign ministers and representatives of the U.S.  Iran  China  Russia  Britain  Germany  France and the European Union during the Iran nuclear talks at the Vienna International Center in Vienna  Austria July 14  2015. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/ File Photo
German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel  has spoken out repeatedly against Trump’s likely step  but  his  latest comments aimed to spell out the impact it would have in starker terms.
“It’s imperative that Europe sticks together on this issue ”  Gabriel   a Social Democrat  told the RND German newspaper group. “We also have to tell the Americans that their behavior on the Iran issue will drive us Europeans into a common position with Russia and China against the USA.”
 Gabriel  is expected to leave  his  post in coming months since  his  Social Democrats have vowed to go into opposition after slumping badly in the Sept. 24 election  opting not to reprise an awkward “grand coalition” with Merkel’s conservatives.
 Gabriel  on Monday urged the White House not to jeopardize the nuclear agreement  saying such a move would worsen instability in the Middle East and could make it more difficult to halt nuclear arms programs in other countries.
In the interview released on Thursday   he  said the nuclear agreement was being treated “like a football” in U.S. domestic politics  but the issue could have serious consequences.
 He  said Russia was watching developments closely  including the divisions between Europe and the United States. “That doesn’t exactly strengthen our position in Europe.”
Ultimately   Gabriel  told the newspaper group  there were only three countries - the United States  Russia and China - that could avert a new nuclear arms race.

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Sigmar Gabriel
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