CME plans to sweeten offer for CBO: WSJ
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Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc.  plans to sweeten its bid for CBOT Holdings Inc.  by adding a special dividend for CBOT shareholders, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
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CME Group Inc , the world's largest derivatives exchange, hopes to broaden its reach by buying energy and precious metals mart Nymex  for $11 billion, the companies said on Monday.
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CVS Corp.  on Thursday again raised its takeover bid for Caremark Rx Inc.  by sweetening a one-time dividend and said the new proposal was its "best and final" offer.
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CVS Corp.  sweetened its  $23.9 billion takeover bid for Caremark Rx Inc.  on  Thursday with an increased dividend, calling its newest  proposal its "best and final" offer for the pharmacy-benefits  manager.
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Philadelphia Media Holdings Chief  Executive Brian Tierney said on Thursday he is interested in  bidding with partners for Wall Street Journal publisher Dow  Jones & Co. Inc.
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CME Group, Inc. and NYMEX Holdings, Inc. said Monday they were conducting initial merger talks which could result in the Chicago-based exchange taking over the New York commodities bourse.
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Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings raised its bid for CBOT Holdings, parent of the Chicago Board of Trade, for the second time in five weeks, adding a $485 million dividend to its earlier $10.19 billion proposal.
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Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc.  on Thursday sweetened its bid for CBOT Holdings Inc.  with a $9.14-per-share special dividend for CBOT shareholders.
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Hospital chain HCA said yesterday it will allow employees and its executives to cash in certain stock options earlier than was originally scheduled, a move that could be a financial plus for
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CHICAGO -- Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc., seeking to clinch its deal for the parent of the Chicago Board of Trade, offered to pay a special dividend of $485 million to CBOT Holdings shareholders on top of the $10.19 billion it has offered for their shares.
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Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc.  said on Friday it agreed to increase its merger offer for CBOT Holdings Inc.  ahead of a shareholder vote on Monday.
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News Corp.  is willing to go further than it has before in acceding to tighter safeguards of editorial independence as a condition of buying Dow Jones & Co. Inc. , The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing sources close to News Corp.
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CME Group Inc , the world's largest derivatives exchange, hopes to broaden its reach by buying the energy and precious metals mart Nymex  for $11 billion, the companies said on Monday.
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Dow Jones & Co Inc.'s  board of directors said on Thursday that the company plans to consider alternatives for the company, including a $5 billion bid by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.  to buy it.
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Dow Jones & Co., publisher of the Wall  Street Journal, said it is to buy online news site operator  MarketWatch Inc. to grow the revenues it derives from the  Internet.
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Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc.  could be in a good position to get an impressive price for its Putnam Investments money management arm, despite some recent troubles at the unit, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Monday.
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Dow Jones & Co Inc.  said on  Tuesday that its board was prepared to recommend that its  shareholders accept a $5 billion buyout offer from Rupert  Murdoch&#39;s News Corp. (NWSa.N).