Rival bidders for CBOT mull higher offers: report
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Rival bidders for CBOT Holdings Inc. , the second-biggest U.S. futures market, are each considering raising their offers a third time, according to a report by Bloomberg.
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Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings raised its bid for CBOT Holdings, parent of the Chicago Board of Trade, for the second time in five weeks, adding a $485 million dividend to its earlier $10.19 billion proposal.
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Blockbuster Inc. , the top U.S. movie rental chain, said on Wednesday it is willing to raise its bid for Hollywood Entertainment Corp. , a rival that has two other suitors looking to buy it.
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CVS Corp.  is likely to  raise its $23.4 billion offer for Caremark Rx Inc. CMX.N>, but  rival suitor Express Scripts Inc.  may still have more  money to throw into the bidding war, sources familiar with the  situation said on Thursday.
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A pitched battle for the No. 2 U.S. futures mart rages on, with Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc.  on Thursday beefing up terms of its offer for CBOT Holdings Inc.  for the second time in a month.
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CHICAGO -- The parent of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange raised its offer to buy the crosstown Board of Trade for the third time Friday, just three days ahead of the shareholder vote that will determine the fate of the long-planned acquisition.
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IntercontinentalExchange Inc.  on Thursday urged CBOT Holdings Inc.  shareholders and members to reject the proposed sale of the company to Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. .
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The board of Harrah's Entertainment  Inc.  is considering two bids, each offering around $16  billion for the casino company, according to a report on the  Wall Street Journal's Web site on Friday.
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As bids for AdelphiaÂs cable systems come due, a joint bid from Time Warner and Comcast remains the one to beat. But investors and analysts are warning that Time Warner and Comcast could be overpaying at the $17.5 billion asking price.
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Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings (CME)  said on Friday it increased its merger offer for CBOT Holdings Inc.  ahead of a shareholder vote on Monday.
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LONDON  - A bidding war for the London Stock Exchange (LSE) looked increasingly likely after Euronext said it had approached the group about a possible counterbid to Deutsche Boerse&#39;s 2.0-billion-euro offer.
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A fresh bidding war for Anglo-Dutch steelmaker Corus has erupted when Brazilian group CSN offered about 5.8 billion pounds (8.6 billion euros, 11.3 billion dollars) shortly after Corus had accepted a lower bid from Tata Steel of India.
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Brazilian steel maker CSN raised the stakes yesterday in the takeover war for Britain's Corus Group PLC with a $9.6 billion bid that topped a sweetened offer by Tata Steel of India.
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CHICAGO -- The Chicago Mercantile Exchange raised its bid for the Chicago Board of Trade to $11 billion, the third increase in a three-month contest with Intercontinental Exchange, as it tries to build the world's largest futures market.
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At the close of the first full day of&#160;bidding for 700MHz wireless spectrum&#160;Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission reported nearly $2.8 billion in provisional winning bids.There were 1,122 new bids filed in the second of two rounds that was held in the afternoon. The total value of all provisional bid winners jumped 15 percent from the morning bidding round, when $2.4 billion was offered.A total of 1,099 licenses can be bid upon, although only 902 had received bids by the end of the day.All the bids are filed anonymously and bidders are prohibited from publicly discussing their bids in an effort to reduce anticompetitive behavior, the FCC said.Computerworld is an InfoWorld affiliate.
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A group led by investment bank Goldman  Sachs  raised its bid for Associated British Ports   to 2.58 billion pounds (&#36;4.75 billion) on Thursday,  after a rival team said it might make a counterbid.
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Compensatory bills rose to all-time highs slightly above their face value of leva (BGN) 1.00 Friday following a report of imminent auctioning of a 35% state-owned stake in national telecom BTC for C-bills at ...