NYMEX explores sale of company: report
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NEW YORK/PARIS  - The New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), the world's largest energy market, is exploring a sale for about $14.3 billion, a news agency reported on Friday, as exchanges worldwide hustle for the best merger partners.
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Hamburger chain Wendy&#39;s  International Inc.  said on Monday it would explore the  possible sale of the company instead of other restructuring  options.
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LaBranche & Co. Inc. , which runs one of the largest specialist trading operations on the New York Stock Exchange floor, may consider selling all or part of itself, a person familiar with the matter said on Monday.
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Mexico&#39;s Cemex plans to sell two cement plants in the United States to Brazil&#39;s Votorantim Cimentos for $400 million to ease its debt burden as it makes a major acquisition in Britain.
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Investor's Business Daily - Nymex crude prices rose 87 cents to $75.92 a barrel, the highest close in nearly 11 months. Production woes in Angola and China&#39;s strong economic growth fueled gains. Brent crude rose 91 cents to $77.67 a barrel, also an 11-month high. The Int&#39;l Energy Agency said global oil demand will rise 2.5% next year.
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NEW YORK, September 27  - Mexican cement giant, Cemex SA (CX.NYS), has agreed to buy RMC Group Plc, a leading British ready-mix concrete company, in a deal valued at about $5.
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A bidding war may be under way for the struggling maker of trading cards.
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IntercontinentalExchange Inc.  may have helped its bid for CBOT Holdings  by reaching an agreement aimed at resolving a dispute between CBOT and the Chicago Board Options Exchange, The Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Wednesday.
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Freescale Semiconductor Inc. FSL.N   said on Monday that it was in talks regarding a possible   business transaction after the New York Times reported that a   consortium of investment firms was near acquiring the company   for more than $16 billion.
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IBM IBM.N is looking to sell  its personal computer business in a deal that could be worth up  to $2 billion, The New York Times reported on Friday, capping a  gradual withdrawal from the business it pioneered.
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Telecommunications equipment maker Avaya Inc.  is in talks with private equity and strategic bidders about selling all or part of the company, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.
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General Electric Co  is the latest company to be seeking the assets of troubled Australian asset manager Allco Finance Group , The Australian Financial Review newspaper reported on Tuesday.
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Blog: Sanyo Electric is reportedly weighing the potential sale of its cell phone and semiconductor businesses.
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NYSE Group Inc.  would consider  creating a rival London exchange to compete with the London  Stock Exchange  for new listings, but had also not ruled  out bidding for it, the Financial Times reported on Monday.
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Mexican group Cemex is reportedly set to make a $4bn takeover bid for RMC, the UK firm that is the world's biggest supplier of ready-mixed concrete.
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Nymex Holdings Inc , parent of the New York Mercantile Exchange and the target of an $11 billion takeover bid by CME Group Inc , posted a better-than-expected fourth quarter profit on Friday, helped by growth in electronic commodities trading.
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U.S. and European banks including Citigroup Inc  and HSBC Holdings PLC  are mulling sales of parts of their businesses from branches to entire units in a nod to crunch times ahead, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Thursday.