Standard Life to buy Resolution for $10 bln
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Insurer Standard Life has agreed to buy  rival Resolution for 4.9 billion pounds ($10.1 billion),  topping a competing offer and breaking up Resolution's planned  merger with Friends Provident.
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Standard Life is criticised by the Takeover Panel for its statements about its bid to buy Resolution.
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PeopleSoft agreed today to be bought by Oracle for $10.3 billion, or $26.50 a share, ending a bitter 18-month acquisition battle. PeopleSoft&#39;s price was 10 percent above what Oracle previously called its &quot;best and final&quot; offer of $24 a share.
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Home Depot Inc.  said on Tuesday that its board approved the sale of its supply unit for $10.3 billion to private equity firms.
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Insurer Pearl made a 4.9 billion pound ($10.1 billion) cash offer for rival Resolution  on Friday in a dramatic move aimed at thwarting a deal between Resolution and Standard Life  agreed just hours earlier.
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(Adds details of funding proposal and company comments.) By Morag MacKinnon Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES. SYDNEY (Dow Jones)--Building products manufacturer James Hardie Industries NV (JHX) agreed Tuesday to fund
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Is this deal picture-perfect for investors?
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Resolution and Friends Provident may look to combine and create a company with a market value of about Â£8.3 billion, or $17.1 billion.
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Chip maker Freescale Semiconductor   Inc. FSL.N said on Friday it agreed to be bought for $17.6   billion, or $40 a share in cash, by a private equity consortium   led by Blackstone Group, in what could be the biggest leveraged   buyout of a technology company.
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BlackRock Inc. (BLK.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , one of the largest US fixed income managers, on Thursday said it will buy its far smaller competitor State Street Research &amp; Management Co.
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A preferred buyer for the National Irish and Northern banks is expected to be announced by their parent this morning. National Australia Bank is due to make an announcement to the stock exchanges in Melbourne and London.
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The sale, for $1.76 billion in cash, is the final step in American Standardâs plan to split into three companies.
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Canadian insurer Great-West Lifeco Inc.  said on Thursday it will buy ailing money manager Putnam Investments from Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc.  for $3.9 billion in a bid to gain a key foothold in the U.S. asset management market.
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Oracle Corp. ORCL.O on Monday said  rival business software maker PeopleSoft Inc.'s PSFT.O board  has accepted a sweetened purchase offer of about $10.3 billion,  ending a long and bitter hostile takeover battle.
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Shareholders of the company approved a $19.5 billion buyout on Tuesday, more than 10 months after the deal was proposed.
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Devon Energy Corp. (DVN.A: Quote, Profile, Research) on Monday said it set a two-for-one stock split and would buy back up to 10 percent of its shares, as the company&#39;s cash levels
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Gartner Inc., a provider of research for the information technology industry, on Monday said it will buy Meta Group Inc. for $10 per share, or $162 million in cash.