Wachovia says completes Golden West takeover
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Wachovia Corp. , the No. 4 U.S. bank, on Monday said it completed its $24 billion takeover of Golden West Financial Corp., the second-largest U.S. savings and loan.
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Federal antitrust regulators have cleared Cerberus Capital Management's $7.4 billion purchase of Chrysler.
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A group led by Sony of America reached a tentative agreement to buy Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for about $4.8 billion in cash, snatching it from Time Warner at the 11th hour.
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Allied Capital Corp.  last month completed one of the biggest buyouts in its history, taking control of the maker of Anacin and Sucrets in a deal Allied officials say is a prime example of where they want to take the old-line Washington business finance company.
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Wachovia Corp. WB.N on Friday said   it has teamed up with a General Electric Co. GE.N unit to   provide commercial and purchasing credit cards to the No. 4   U.S. bank's wholesale and treasury services customers.
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Planet Hollywood investors on Wednesday said they officially had taken over the Aladdin casino, the megaresort on the Las Vegas Strip that they won a year ago in a bankruptcy sale for &#36;635 million.
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Kraft Foods Inc. KFT.N said on   Wednesday it completed the acquisition of United Biscuits'   Iberian operations and recovered rights to several Nabisco   trademarks in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
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JOHANNESBURG - Mining giant Gold Fields will know after a crucial shareholder vote on Tuesday if it has succeeded in ending a cheeky hostile take-over bid by its rival Harmony to create the world&#39;s largest gold producer.
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NEW YORK (Kyodo) A group of investors led by Sony Corp. said Thursday it has finalized a $4.9 billion acquisition deal with Hollywood film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.
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CALGARY (CP) - A subsidiary of South African miner Gold Fields Ltd. has bought 14.4 per cent of the shares of Comaplex Minerals Corp.
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In yet another concrete sign of trouble in the commercial real estate market, Wachovia, the nationâs fourth-largest bank, announced on Tuesday that it would be taking write-downs of more than $1 billion for commercial loans for the second half of last year. That sum includes $488 million in previously disclosed write-downs for the third quarter.
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After months of heated wrangling and public speculation, a consortium led by Sony Corp. signed a definitive deal Thursday to buy the famous Hollywood studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).
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CHARLOTTE, May 31 -- Wachovia, the nation's fourth-largest bank, said Thursday that it would acquire A.G. Edwards for $6.8 billion in cash and stock in a deal to form the second-largest retail brokerage firm in the United States.
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Alltel Corp., the sixth biggest U.S. cellular carrier, has agreed to buy Western Wireless Corp., a Northwest regional carrier which owns the Cellular One brand, for about $4.4 billion in cash and stock.
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Regional US telecommunications group Alltel announced it had agreed to buy Western Wireless Corp. for about six billion dollars in cash and stock.
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Station Casinos Inc., which owns 12 casinos in the Las Vegas area, agreed yesterday to a sweetened $5.4 billion takeover bid from the founderâs family and a buyout firm.
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NEW YORK -- Wachovia Corp. said Thursday it would acquire A.G. Edwards Inc. for $6.8 billion in cash and stock in a deal to form one of the largest retail stock brokerages in the United States.