BBVA buys Compass Bancshares for $9.6 bln
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BBVA  took a fresh step toward its long-held ambition to grow in the United States on Friday when it said it had agreed to buy U.S. bank Compass Bancshares Inc  for $9.6 billion.
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BBVA  took a fresh step toward  its long-held ambition to grow in the United States on Friday  when it said it had agreed to buy U.S. bank Compass Bancshares  Inc  for $9.6 billion.
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Spain's BBVA has reached an agreement to acquire privately held Texan bank Laredo National Bancshares (LNB) for $850 million as part of the Spanish financial group's expansion into the United States, BBVA said ...
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British energy group BP said on Friday that it had agreed to sell its stakes in a Siberian gas field and company to Russian gas giant Gazprom for up to 900 million dollars (669 million euros).
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Bulgaria sold a formerly state-owned 34.6% package of national telecom provider BTC (BTC) to private investors for leva (BGN) 625 million (EUR312.5 million) on Thursday, an official said.
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Real estate investment trust Spirit Finance Corp.  said on Tuesday it would be acquired by a consortium led by Australia's Macquarie Bank Ltd.  for about $1.6 billion.
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Swiss banking giant UBS AG announced Tuesday that it is buying the capital markets division of discount brokerage Charles Schwab Corp. in a &#36;265 million bid to become one of the top traders on the NASDAQ exchange.
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Sky Financial Group Inc. SKYF.O on  Wednesday said it agreed to buy Belmont Bancorp BLMT.O in a  cash and stock deal worth about $69.2 million.
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American Financial Realty Trust on Tuesday agreed to acquire 252 commercial properties from Bank of America NA for a total price of about $570 million excluding unspecified transaction expenses.
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BBVA, based in Madrid, Spain, pursued the acquisition based on LNB's presence in the Hispanic market in the Texas-Mexico border area.
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Mobile phone firm Motorola is buying Symbol Technologies, a maker of barcode scanning systems, for $3.9bn.
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Dutch banking and insurance group Fortis said that its international insurance arm will acquire the Ukranian insurer Etalon Life, for 7.6 million euros (9.7 million dollars).
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LONDON, November 22  - Dutch banking and insurance company, ING Group (INN.ETR), has agreed to sell its Baring Asset Management division in two separate deals, for collective net gains of about â¬250 million.
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Business: 18 September 2004, Saturday. Austria's regional power and gas distributor EVN AG (EVNV.VI) expected to close its acquisition of the Southeast pool of Bulgaria's electricity distribution companies in ...
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The Blackstone Group sold the majority of its property holdings in Germany to institutional investors for about 1.6 billion euros ($2.1 billion), the company said yesterday. Blackstone said it had sold a majority stake in its Vitus subsidiary to a consortium including Round Hill Capital and Morley Fund Management, the wealth-management unit of the British insurer Aviva. Blackstone bought Vitus, which has more than 31,000 apartments, from a German holding company, WCM, at the end of 2004.
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Less than a week after acquiring a dual stake in China's Citic Group, comprising five percent of China Citic Bank and 15 percent of its Hong Kong unit, Citic International Financial Holdings, Spain's BBVA has said it plans a three billion euro capital hike.
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Brazilian steelmaker CSN  said on  Monday it had agreed to buy Anglo-Dutch rival Corus  for  4.9 billion pounds ($9.6 billion), trumping an offer from  India's Tata Steel  announced only hours before.