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everything secure. There's takeover trouble in the world of convenience stores. Hello, this

is the Marketplace Morning Report, and we're live from the BBC World Service. I'm Leanna Byrne. Good

morning. So the Canadian firm Kutar, best known for Circle K, is walking away from a $47 billion bid to buy Japan's 7-I, the parent company of 7-11.

Here's the BBC's Morphogity.

Have the deal gone through, it would have combined the world's biggest convenience store chain, 7-Eleven, with the Canadian company's Circle K stores,

to create a global mini-mart giant with more than 100,000 stores around the world.

Seven and I said they were disappointed and not surprised by their rival's decision,

and that they also disagreed with the, quote, numerous mischaracterizations.

The proposal was widely seen as a litmus test of corporate Japan's willingness to accept foreign takeovers,

which for now there seems to be little appetite for.

More Fogarty there. Now, let's the numbers.

China's power demand just hit a record 1.5 billion kilowatts as blistering heatwave pushes people to crank up the aircon.

Half the grid's power came from solar. Meanwhile, TSM, the Taiwanese chip giant behind Apple and Navidia,

just posted a 60% jump in profits riding the AI boom to $13.5 billion last quarter.

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