Tokyo, London bourses set to sign alliance Friday: sources
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The Tokyo and London stock exchanges are set to sign a business alliance on Friday as part of a global race for consolidation among the world's top bourses, informed sources said Thursday.
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Advisers to Rupert Murdoch&#39;s News  Corp. and Dow Jones & Co. Inc. could reach a pact on editorial  independence as early as Monday, a source familiar with the  situation said, heightening expectations a takeover deal could  soon be reached.
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LONDON/NEW YORK  - The Nasdaq Stock Market  plans on Friday to announce that it has agreed to buy Nordic bourse owner OMX  as it expands beyond the U.S. market, according to sources familiar with the situation.
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Dow Jones & Co  and its main labor union are close to a contract agreement for reporters and other employees at The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, a union organizer said on Friday.
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PAN-EUROPEAN stock exchange Euronext is planning a rival bid for the London Stock Exchange, it was reported yesterday. The Paris-based Bourse this week intends unveiling plans drawn up for a cash bid, several Sunday newspapers reported.
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The battle for the London Stock Exchange (LSE) heated up with sources saying the German stock market operator Deutsche Boerse was prepared to raise its bid price and move key parts of its management to London.
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U.S. share market Nasdaq  and Borse Dubai are set to team up and buy OMX , ending a takeover battle for the Nordic markets operator and creating a major new force in the financial markets industry, sources close to the situation told Reuters.
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The New York Stock Exchange and Tokyo Stock Exchange unveiled an alliance yesterday that extends the NYSE's global reach and could lead to an eventual combination of the world's two largest financial markets.
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Citigroup  is likely to list its  Japan banking unit on the Tokyo Stock Exchange as early as  July, an online Japanese magazine said on Friday.
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Italian stock market operator Borsa  Italiana is ready to study a joint offer with Deutsche Boerse  for Euronext , which has already agreed a &#36;10 billion  deal to merge with the NYSE, Il Sole 24 Ore newspaper said.
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NYSE Group Inc.  would consider  creating a rival London exchange to compete with the London  Stock Exchange  for new listings, but had also not ruled  out bidding for it, the Financial Times reported on Monday.
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The London Stock Exchange (LSE) discusses a $2bn bid for its Italian counterpart, say sources quoted by Reuters.
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LONDON/NEW YORK  - The Nasdaq Stock Market  plans to announce on Friday that it has agreed to buy Nordic bourse owner OMX  as it expands beyond the U.S. market, according to sources familiar with the situation.
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Euronext, the Franco-Dutch stock exchange operator, is this week expected to challenge Deutsche BÃ¶rse (DB) of Germany for control of the London Stock Exchange.
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The Tokyo Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange  said on Friday they would work together to share technology information and possibly develop new products, marking the latest cross-border agreement between bourses in an increasingly competitive market.
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Euronext  shareholders are due to approve a $14 billion plan to merge with the New York Stock Exchange  and create the first transatlantic bourse.
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Advisers to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. and Dow Jones & Co. Inc. could reach a pact on editorial independence as early as Monday, a source familiar with the situation said, heightening expectations a takeover deal could soon be reached.