Spanish giant has deal to buy Laredo National
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One of Spain&#39;s largest banks will soon be crossing the Mexican border in search of Hispanic customers. BBVA announced Tuesday it plans to buy Laredo National Bancshares for $850 million.
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Mexico's cement giant Cemex is purchasing Britain's RMC Group in a $5 billion deal due to be announced on Monday.
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Iberdrola agreed to buy ScottishPower for $22.5 billion in a move that would create one of EuropeÂs largest utilities.
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Mexico&#39;s Cemex has agreed to buy building materials firm RMC Group for 2.3 billion pounds, doubling the revenues of the world&#39;s No.
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Mexico&#39;s Cemex, the world&#39;s third-largest cement maker, is to buy RMC Group for around 2.3 billion pounds in cash. RMC RMC.
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LONDON : The Spanish bank Santander Central Hispano said it still expects to complete its acquisition of British home-loan specialist Abbey National by the end of this year.
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Texas power company TXU Corp.  has agreed to be acquired by private equity firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.  and Texas Pacific Group  for about $32 billion in the largest leverage buyout in history, Bloomberg News reported on Monday.
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Royal Bank of Canada  subsidiary RBC Centura Inc said on Thursday it has agreed to acquire Alabama National BanCorporation  in a deal valued at $1.6 billion.
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Banco Santander Central Hispano, SpainÂs biggest bank, agreed to buy 90 percent of Drive Financial Services of Dallas for $651 million, gaining a presence in 35 states with what is its first consumer finance move into the United States. The bank will buy the unit from HBOS, a British mortgage lender, and the management of Drive Financial. Santander will also pay as much as $175 million to some of Drive FinancialÂs management if the company meets goals in the next two years. Drive Financial offers financial services through 10,000 car dealers and had $2.4 billion of loans in August.
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Mexican cement giant Cemex SA is buying British-based RMC Group PLC, the world&#39;s biggest supplier of ready mixed concrete, in a deal worth some 2.3 billion pounds (US$4.
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French airline Air France-KLM is preparing a takeover offer for Spanish peer Iberia with several Spanish partners who will take a majority stake in the group, a Spanish newspaper reported on Wednesday.
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LONDON/MUMBAI  - Brazilian steelmaker CSN  has agreed to buy Anglo-Dutch rival Corus Group  for 4.9 billion pounds ($9.6 billion) in cash, trumping an offer agreed only hours earlier with India's Tata Steel .
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- Spanish bank BBVA (BBV) on Tuesday said it has agreed to buy privately-held Laredo National Bancshares of Texas for $850 million.
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Texas power company TXU Corp.  said on Monday it agreed to be acquired by a group led by private equity firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.  and Texas Pacific Group  for $31.8 billion in the largest leveraged buyout in history.
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Spain's Iberia on Friday formally presented an offer to buy the country's second largest airline, Spanair, from Scandinavian carrier SAS, Spanish media said.
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Univision Communications Inc. shareholders on Wednesday approved selling the Spanish-language broadcaster to a private investor group for $12.3 billion, the company said.
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U.S.-Norwegian Royal Caribbean Cruises    has agreed to buy Spain's biggest cruise and  tour operator, Pullmantur S.A., for 700 million euros ($898.5  million), sending its shares sharply higher on Thursday.