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Why are private equity firms clogging up the aisles at British supermarket chain William Morrison?

Amy Donnellin and Peter Thal Larson will explain, and our Asia columnists discussed Beijing's

new attitude to U.S. listed Chinese companies. Stay tuned for this week's edition of the

Views Room. Welcome to the Viewsroom. I'm Rob Cox, the editor of breaking views, the

financial commentary arm of Reuters News, coming to you from Zurich, Switzerland.

In this week's edition, I speak to Amy Donnellin and Peter Thal Larson in London about a private equity feeding frenzy from Morrisons, the $9 billion supermarket chain operator.

Morrison's has received two buyout offers, one from Clayton Dubler-Rice

and another from Fortress, the investment group acquired by SoftBank a few years ago.

The Grocers Board approved the higher 254 pence a share bid from Fortress, which also has

backing from the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and the Koch Brothers Real Estate arm.

And there's chatter about another potential offer in the works from Apollo or CDR itself, whose earlier bid was rejected.

Amy and Peter explained the charms of British supermarkets, at least for the LBO guys.

Next up, I speak to Robin Mack and Yawin Chen in Hong Kong about some shifts in the way Beijing

is regulating some of China's

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