Cantor to combine eSpeed, BGC in $1.3 billion deal
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Bond trader Cantor Fitzgerald is combining its electronic brokerage eSpeed , which has been a takeover target, with its BGC Partners inter-dealer broker into a new publicly listed company in a $1.3 billion deal.
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International Business Machines Corp. said Monday it will provide voice and data services to British financial-services company Lloyds TSB Group PLC for seven years in a deal worth $971.6 million.
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The carrier will give its broadband subscribers access to 3,900 hot spots for $1.99 a month.
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Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Barclays Plc, the UK&#39;s third- biggest bank, agreed to buy Juniper Financial Corp. from Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce for $293 million in cash to help expand its credit card business in North America.
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IBM , the world's largest  information-technology company, on Wednesday said it agreed to  buy Internet Security Systems Inc.  for $1.3 billion,  continuing an acquisition drive to fuel growth.
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Chesapeake Energy Corp. on Monday said it agreed to buy the privately held BRG Petroleum Corp. for $325 million in cash. The company will fund the deal - which it expects to close on Feb. 1 - using cash on
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NEW YORK, November 4  - SBC Communications Inc (SBC.NYS) and BellSouth Corporation (BLS) have agreed to acquire the online directory publisher, www.
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The Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group of Australia said its Macquarie Bank consortium had agreed to acquire a wireless tower operator in the United States, Global Tower Partners, from the Blackstone Group for $1.43 billion.
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French oilfield services group Compagnie  Generale de Geophysique is to buy Texas-based Veritas DGC Inc.  in a $3.1 billion deal to merge their seismic businesses, the  companies said on Tuesday.
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David Eckstein agreed Thursday to a three-year contract with the St. Louis Cardinals, completing a triangle of shortstop switches.
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Aug. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Cantor Fitzgerald LP, one of the two largest Treasury bond brokers, will split off its original business of person-to-person sales to focus on more profitable activities such as institutional equity sales and trading.
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Company, one of the core backers of Blu-ray, will also support its rival format.
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Citigroup Inc. , the world's biggest financial-services company, will pay $15.2 million to settle claims its brokers coaxed BellSouth Corp. workers into early retirement by exaggerating projections for investment returns, said NASD, the main US brokerage regulator.
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Real estate investment trust Archstone-Smith  on Tuesday said it agreed to be acquired by Tishman Speyer and investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.  in a deal valued at $13.5 billion, reflecting the strong demand for high-end real estate by private investors.
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Oracle is near a deal to acquire Hyperion Solutions, which makes business analysis software, for about $3 billion.
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GLG Partners will go public in the United States through a $3.4 billion merger with an investment company, according to people briefed on the transaction.
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The $3.7 billion deal will form the Nasdaq OMX Group which will list more than 4,000 companies with a combined market value of $5.5 trillion.