SNS to buy AXA Dutch operations for $2.35 bln
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Dutch financial group SNS Reaal  is to buy the Dutch insurance operations of France's AXA  for 1.75 billion euros ($2.35 billion) to double its domestic market share and save costs.
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Sports entertainment group ESPN Inc. has  agreed to acquire the North American Sports Network (NASN) from  Setanta Sport Holdings Ltd and Benchmark Capital Europe, they  said in a statement on Tuesday.
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The deal, for $350 million in cash and stock, is the second sizable acquisition Yahoo has announced this month.
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SYDNEY (Dow Jones)--Xstrata Plc (XTA.LN) said Monday that its A$6.35-a-share cash bid for Australia&#39;s WMC Resources Ltd. (WMR.
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Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., which lost its battle to cross the Atlantic with a failed bid for the London Stock Exchange, agreed Friday to buy Nordic stock exchange operator OMX AB for 25.1 billion kronor
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Aon Corp , one of the  world's largest insurance brokers, said on Monday it has agreed  to sell two units for about $2.75 billion and will use the  proceeds to buy back shares.
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The all-electronic US stock exchange Nasdaq is to buy OMX, which operates seven Nordic and Baltic exchanges, in an agreed takeover operation, OMX said in Stockholm on Friday.
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BT Group PLC said Monday it is buying U.S.-based Infonet Services Corp., in a deal that values the company at $965 million.
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Independent power producer Dynegy Inc.   DYN.N said on Friday it agreed to pay over $2 billion in   stock and cash for the merchant power plant portfolio of   private equity fund LS Power Group, which will have a 40   percent stake in the combined company.
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Sagem SA, a French defense-electronics maker, offered to buy state-controlled jet-engine maker Snecma SA for 4.9 billion euros ($6.24 billion) in stock as French President Jacques Chirac tries to create ...
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Oil major Total SA has signed a draft agreement to purchase a 25 percent stake, plus one share, in the privately held Russian gas producer Novatek, the French company announced Wednesday.
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Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., which lost in its battle to cross the Atlantic with a failed takeover bid for the London Stock Exchange, agreed Friday to buy all outstanding shares in Nordic stock exchange operator OMX AB, a deal valued at $3.67 billion.
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Shares in the French insurer Axa gained in afternoon trade here on a Financial Times report that Axa is in talks to acquire Credit Suisse Group's Winterthur unit.
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Australia's APN News and Media  on Monday agreed to a revised A$2.8 billion ($2.2 billion) offer from a consortium including Tony O'Reilly's Independent News and Media Plc. .
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LONDON Royal Dutch/Shell Group confirmed Wednesday a plan to sell as much as $12 billion in assets, spend as much as $45 billion on new projects, and consider making some acquisitions as the company tries to bolster its oil and natural gas production.
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Nasdaq, the largest electronic stock market in America, agreed Friday to buy OMX, the operator of seven Nordic and Baltic exchanges, for $3.7 billion.
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Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKa.N), the  conglomerate headed by billionaire investor Warren Buffett,  said on Tuesday it planned to buy 60 percent of manufacturing  and services group Marmon Holdings Inc. for $4.5 billion.