Lewis buys 7% Bear Stearns stake
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Billionaire UK investor Joseph Lewis spends $860m buying a 7% stake in struggling US bank Bear Stearns.
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NEW YORK/SHANGHAI  - Bear Stearns Cos, a U.S. investment bank that has been battered by slumping mortgage markets, and China's CITIC Securities Co have agreed to swap stakes in each other and form a broad alliance, the firms said on Monday.
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To help fund the $877 million purchase, Auckland Energy Consumer Trust-owned Vector will float 24.9 percent of its shares on the stock exchange.
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Home improvement retailer Home Depot  Inc said on Monday that under a tender offer that expired on  August 31, it agreed to buy 289.331 million shares of its  common stock for a total value of $10.7 billion.
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Standard Chartered has won a bid for a controlling stake in Indonesia&#39;s seventh-largest bank for about $278 million (155 million pounds), the British bank&#39;s third attempt to buy an Indonesian financial institution, a source says.
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Funds controlled by British billionaire Joseph Lewis have amassed a seven percent stake in Wall Street investment bank and brokerage Bear Stearns, a US securities filing showed Monday.
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Vodafone buys a controlling stake in Indian mobile phone firm Hutchison Essar for $11bn (Â£5.7bn).
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Bear Stearns Cos, the U.S.  investment bank battered by slumping mortgage markets, and  China's CITIC Securities Co have agreed to swap stakes in each  other and form a broad alliance, the firms said on Monday.
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Morgan Stanley MWD.N and Bear  Stearns Cos. Inc. BSC.N, two of Wall Street's biggest  securities firms, on Tuesday said their fourth-quarter profits  rose as a flurry of mergers and a year-end stock rally boosted  investment banking fees.
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British bus and train operator FirstGroup PLC said Friday it agreed to buy U.S.-based bus company Laidlaw International Inc. in a 1.9 billion pound ($2.7 billion) deal.
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Joseph C. Lewis, the British billionaire who was once the largest shareholder in Christieâs, has built up a big stake in another well-known company: Bear Stearns.
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Bear Stearns shares rose 7.7 percent yesterday on speculation that investors including Warren E. Buffett may buy all or part of the company.
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Investment bank Goldman Sachs  has made a bid approach of about 700 million pounds ($1.4 billion) for reinsurance broker Benfield , the Daily Telegraph said on Friday.
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Corus shareholders on Wednesday overwhelmingly backed a takeover of the Anglo-Dutch steel group by Tata Steel of India, as 97 percent of voters approved a deal worth 7 billion pounds.
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Boston developer John B. Hynes III and the financial services company Morgan Stanley yesterday bought 23 acres of South Boston Waterfront land from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. for $203.7 million.
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The Brit has been buying up a big stake in beleaguered bank Bear Stearns.
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Morgan Stanley has sold its 7.2 percent stake in The New York Times Company, bringing an end to its campaign to change the media companyâs dual-class share structure.