UKbetting buys Ritz Club
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Closed down Wednesday, bought Friday Online gambling website www.part of the Barclay brothers' Ritz Hotel empire - has been bought by ukbetting plc.â¦
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Charterhouse Capital Partners LLP, a London-based buyout firm, agreed to buy UK vacation and insurance company Saga Ltd. for 1.35 billion pounds ($2.
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The pound was firmer, hitting 1.9846 usd at one point -- its highest level this year, on news of a major stock market acquisition and as markets scaled back their interest rate cut expectations. Scottish & Newcastle, the UK's largest brewer, announced it has agreed to be bought by Carlsberg and Heineken, for around 7.6 billion pounds.
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- Station Casinos Inc.  said it agreed to be acquired by privately held Fertitta Colony Partners LLC for $90 per share, or $5.4 billion in cash.
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Imperial Tobacco Group PLC , the UK maker of Lambert &amp; Butler, agreed to buy Commonwealth Brands for $1.9 billion to enter the US discount cigarette market.
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US banking giant Citigroup sells its Travelers Life & Annuity insurance arm to Metlife for $11.5bn.
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Cigarette maker Imperial Tobacco has announced the purchase of US group Commonwealth Brands for 960 million pounds.
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The London Stock Exchange confirmed Saturday it was buying the Borsa Italiana for 1.6 billion euros (2.15 billion dollars) in shares, according to a joint statement.
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Two private equity firms will buy Sabre Holdings Corp. , owner of the Travelocity hotel and flight-booking Web site, for $4.45 billion as they look to profit from a boom in travel services.
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Mandalay Resort Group on Friday  said its shareholders approved plans for the Las Vegas-based  casino operator to be acquired by MGM Mirage for $4.8 billion.
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Cendant, the worldâs largest travel group, continued its buying spree, saying on Thursday it had agreed to buy privately held Gullivers Travel Associates, the UK-based travel company, and Octopus Travel for about $1.1bn cash.
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Bookmaker Ladbrokes continues to boost profits for its parent company, hotels group Hilton.
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The Brit has been buying up a big stake in beleaguered bank Bear Stearns.
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Archipelago Holdings, US owner of ArcaEx, the world's largest electronic stock market, is leading the race to buy Instinet, an electronic brokerage owned by the British news and information giant Reuters.
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Shares in British online gambling companies, including Sportingbet PLC and PartyGaming PLC, dived Monday after the U.S. Congress passed legislation prohibiting the use of credit cards, checks and electronic fund transfers for online gaming.
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Punch Taverns, the UK's biggest pub operator, buys the Mill House Inns chain for Â£169m from Bank of Scotland.
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Shares in internet gaming firm Sportingbet jump 15% after it says has received a takeover approach.