Apollo raises offer for Huntsman to $28/shr: WSJ
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Private-equity firm Apollo Management  raised its offer for U.S. chemical company Huntsman Corp.   by 75 cents a share Sunday night to $28 a share, The  Wall Street Journal Online reported on Monday.
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Apollo Management and Texas Pacific Group are expected to raise their bid for Harrah's Entertainment Inc.  to $87 a share, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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Stocks rose on Wednesday as a labor agreement at General Motors Corp  promised to lower costs for Detroit's automakers, while a report that Bear Stearns may sell a stake to outside investors boosted brokerage stocks.
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Chemicals maker Huntsman Corp.  said on Thursday it agreed to be bought for $6.5 billion by Apollo Management's Hexion Specialty Chemicals, which trumped an earlier bid for the U.S. company by rival Basell .
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Offer--described by Yahoo as "unsolicited"--amounts to $31 per share, or a 62 percent premium above its closing stock price Thursday.
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MONTREAL/NEW YORK  - Alcoa Inc.  says it could raise its hostile $28.6 billion offer for Alcan Inc.  if warranted, but the Canadian aluminum maker has rebuffed requests for talks, a regulatory filing showed on Tuesday.
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Socks rose on Tuesday as European  companies made takeover offers for U.S. companies in the  health-care and chemicals sectors and bond yields dipped,  sending rate-sensitive stocks higher.
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Yahoo Inc is in talks on  a possible deal with News Corp, but analysts said an  alternative was unlikely to emerge to rival Microsoft Corp's  bid for Yahoo, now valued at $42.1 billion.
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U.S. chemical company Huntsman Corp.  said on Friday the $6 billion buyout offer from Apollo Management's Hexion Specialty Chemicals Inc. was superior to the previously accepted deal offered by Basell .
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The General Electric Company raised its quarterly dividend yesterday to 28 cents a share from 25 cents, in a move aimed at adding bolstering its lackluster share price.
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NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO  - Google Inc., the most  popular Internet search engine, raised $1.67 billion on  Wednesday in its long-awaited IPO after slashing the price and  size of an offer beset by missteps and poor market conditions.
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As two major investment banks issued optimistic reports on the Mountain View search engine company Tuesday, its stock price jumped $8.
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. (MGM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) shares jumped more than 7 percent on Wednesday on a report that a deal to acquire the company for up to $5 billion could be announced as early as next week.
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Shares of Internet search companies Google Inc.  and Yahoo Inc.  rose on Monday after Goldman Sachs raised its fourth-quarter estimates for both companies.
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U.S. chemical company Huntsman Corp , which has agreed to a $5.6 billion takeover, said on Wednesday it had received an approach at $27.25 per share from an affiliate of U.S. private equity firm Apollo Management.
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NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO  - Yahoo Inc  is in  talks on a possible deal with News Corp , but analysts  said an alternative was unlikely to emerge to rival Microsoft  Corp's  bid for Yahoo, now valued at $42.1 billion.