PARIS (Reuters) -French utility company Veolia confirmed it would sell Suez’s UK waste business to Australia’s Macquarie Group Ltd for around 2.4 billion euros ($2.4 billion), a deal aimed at resolving antitrust concerns. Earlier, Veolia said that it was proposing to sell off its former rival, Suez’s UK waste business, after Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) raised objections to the Veolia/Suez combination. Veolia’s shares rose around 3% in early trading, top performer on Paris’ SBF-120 equity index. They pared gains but were still up 2.5% in the afternoon. “Following this tran…
