Air Canada Buys $1.35 Bln of Embraer Jets
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Air Canada AC.TO ACErv.TO has  agreed to buy 45 regional jets from Embraer SA EMBR4.SA, an  order the Brazilian aircraft manufacturer valued on Wednesday  at $1.35 billion.
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Great Plains Energy has agreed to buy the crosstown utility operator Aquila for about $1.7 billion.
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TORONTO -- An Ontario court approved Air Canada&#39;s restructuring plan yesterday, while one of Canada&#39;s major banks sold off its debt in the airline.
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Magna International Inc., Canada&#39;s largest auto parts supplier, offered to buy out shares in three units for as much as C$1.3 billion ($1.
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Rogers Wireless Communications Inc. agreed to buy Microcell Telecommunications Inc. for C$1.4 billion ($1.08 billion), beating a bid by Telus Corp.
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BEIJING  - China signed contracts Monday worth nearly &#36;2.1 billion US to buy 23 Airbus jetliners and other German industrial goods.
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Canada's largest cable company, Rogers Communications Inc., said Monday it will pay &#36;1.33 billion for the 34 percent stake in Rogers Wireless Communications Inc. owned by longtime American partner AT&amp;T Wireless Services Inc.
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Australia's Qantas Airways  said on Thursday it has accepted an A$11.1 billion ($8.7 billion) revised buyout offer led by Macquarie Bank Ltd.  and private equity firm Texas Pacific Group at A$5.60 a share.
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Aeroflex Inc. , which makes microelectronics for the telecommunications, aerospace and defense markets, said on Friday it struck a deal to be bought by private equity firms General Atlantic and Francisco Partners for about $1 billion.
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Air Canada has agreed to buy 30  Canadair Regional Jets from Bombardier Inc. BBDb.TO in a  contract valued at $821 million, the companies said on Monday,  but the order falls 15 jets short of an earlier plan.
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German budget airline Air Berlin and its Austrian partner NIKI are buying up to 110 new jets from Airbus, which the European aircraft maker will start delivering next year.
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China Eastern Airlines has announced an agreement to buy six 737-700 jetliners from US manufacturer Boeing for a total of $US241 million.
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The price for Onex Corp., Canada's biggest buyout firm, and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to buy Raytheon Co.'s aircraft unit is about $3 billion, a person with knowledge of the agreement said.
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Australiaâs largest airline agreed to an $8.7 billion buyout offer from a consortium led by Macquarie Bank and the Texas Pacific Group.
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Rogers Communications Inc.&#39;s Toronto Blue Jays agreed to buy the SkyDome from Chicago, Illinois-based Sportsco International LP for C$25 million ($21.1 million), the team said in a press release.
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MONTREAL (CP) - Air Canada&#39;s parent company is forecasting third-quarter operating income of $235 million, up from $17 million a year ago, for the formerly insolvent airline.
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ACE Aviation Holdings  (ACEa.TO), majority owner of Air Canada (ACa.TO), has been  approached by private equity players and pension funds on ways  that Air Canada could join the U.S. airline consolidation wave,  ACE Chief Executive Robert Milton said on Friday.