Sagem Offers $6.24 Billion in Stock for Snecma, Maker of Airplane Engines
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Sagem SA, a French defense-electronics maker, offered to buy state-controlled jet-engine maker Snecma SA for 4.9 billion euros ($6.24 billion) in stock as French President Jacques Chirac tries to create ...
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French aircraft engine maker Snecma (SNEC.PA: Quote, Profile, Research) and defence equipment group Sagem (SAGM.PA: Quote, Profile, Research
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Airbus has won an order worth $6.9 billion from leasing company AWAS Ltd for as many as 100 planes, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
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BAE Systems advised its shareholders to sell the British defence group's 20 percent stake in Airbus to the Franco-German aerospace firm EADS for 2.75 billion euros (3.5 billion dollars).
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Bethesda-based Lockheed Martin has been chosen by the US Postal Service to provide managed network services in a potential $6 billion deal.
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NYSE Euronext  said on Thursday  it agreed to acquire the American Stock Exchange (Amex) for  $260 million in stock to boost its business in options,  exchange traded funds and cash products.
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Cobham, the niche defence and aerospace supplier, has bought Remec Defense &amp; Space, a company that specialises in battlefield communications equipment, for $260m from the Remec group.
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Freescale Semiconductor Inc. has agreed to be acquired by a group of investment firms for US$17.6 billion.
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Boeing Co. BA.N will sign on Friday  deals worth up to $7.5 billion to sell 60 of its 7E7 Dreamliner  planes to six Chinese airlines, a source familiar with the  transactions said on Thursday.
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Boeing Co. could sell up to 50 of its new  7E7 planes to Japan Airlines Corp. (JAL) worth as much as $6  billion at list prices under a deal announced on Wednesday.
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The U.S. Navy on Friday gave a transatlantic team led by Lockheed Martin Corp.  a &#36;1.7 billion contract to build a new fleet of 23 U.S. presidential helicopters, a deal valued at up to &#36;6.1 billion.
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European planemaker Airbus says that Thai Airways International plans to buy six of its double-decker A380 planes as part of a deal worth more than $2 billion (1 billion pounds) at list prices.
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Chip maker Freescale Semiconductor Inc   said on Friday that it had agreed to be bought for  $17.6 billion, or $40 a share, by a consortium of private  equity firms led by Blackstone Group.
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National Semiconductor Corp.  NSM.N on Thursday said it would cut about 6 percent of its  work force to reduce costs amid a chip supply glut, and will  book severance charges of between $22 million and $26 million.
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NetJets Europe, which operates business jets under multiple ownership, has said that it has ordered 24 Falcon 7X aircraft from French aerospace group Dassault Aviation.
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Russian state bank Vneshtorgbank  has accumulated a 5 percent stake in European aerospace firm  EADS , a Russian business daily reported, helping lift  shares in the Airbus planemaker on prospects of new  opportunities in Russia.
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Shares of Nastech Pharmaceutical Co.  Inc. NSTK.O jumped 23 percent before the bell on Monday after  the company said it tied up with Merck & Co. MRK.N to develop  and market Nastech's experimental nasal spray treatment for  obesity.