Pearl ups bid in $10 bln battle for UK's Resolution
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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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The UK pound climbs past the $2.10 level against the US dollar, the highest it has been in 26 years.
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The NUT seeks a minimum rise of 10% or Â£3,000 for staff in England and Wales from September 2008.
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Barclays is close to raising some Â£10bn from China and Singapore to back its takeover of a Dutch bank.
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Bids topped $10,000 yesterday on eBay for what an animal-rights group says are notes from Michael Vickâs speech apologizing for a dogfighting scandal.
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Britain's Resolution  and Friends Provident  have confirmed they are in advanced merger talks to create a group worth almost 9 billion pounds, rekindling hopes of consolidation across the insurance sector.
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LONDON  - Tuesday's announcement that Princes William and Harry are organizing a pop concert to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the death of their mother, Princess Diana, is set to prompt a bidding frenzy among broadcasters for the U.K. and international television rights.
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Life insurance group Resolution, which is merging with peer Friends Provident, on Friday snubbed a formal bid from Pearl Assurance worth some 4.8 billion pounds.
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United States engineering giant UTC has vowed to battle on in its attempts to buy fire extinguisher maker Kidde. The group, whose Â£1.
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Â· Alexander insists row is no resignation matterÂ· Prosecutors to investigate Â£10,000 of payments
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Business News, MELBOURNE, Financial group HHG has agreed to sell its life insurance business, including Pearl, National Provident Life and London Life, for 1.025 billion pounds to Life Company Investor Group, and plans to return 875 million pounds of the
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Buyout firm Fortress Investment Group  on Monday raised its offer for Stelmar Shipping Ltd. SJH.N by  about 4 percent to $703 million, but Stelmar's founder said he  still intends to vote against the deal.
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Business & money: Lawyers for former Telegraph owner fight US government attempt to seize $69.8m of assets if tycoon is found guilty of fraud and racketeering.
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U.S. coal firm Peabody Energy  Corp.  raised its bid for Australia's Excel Coal Ltd.   by nearly 12 percent to A$2 billion, but speculation  about a rival offer pushed Excel shares above Peabody's new  offer price.
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Legal challenge could raise price for nationalization moves by Ecuador, Russia, and Bolivia.
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Phelps Dodge Corp.  raised its  bid for Inco Ltd.  on Sunday and Inco raised its offer  for Falconbridge Ltd. , as the companies battled to  protect their proposed US&#36;41 billion three-way merger and  create the biggest mining company in North America.
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LONDON/AMSTERDAM  - The takeover battle for ABN AMRO  heated up on Monday with the Royal Bank of Scotland  consortium boosting the cash element of its 71.1 billion-euro ($98 billion) offer.