A&P in talks to buy Pathmark for about $653 million
231499
Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea  Company Inc.  said on Tuesday it was in talks to acquire  rival supermarket chain Pathmark Stores Inc.  for about  $653 million in cash and stock.
515511
MELBOURNE/SYDNEY  - Investment bank Macquarie Bank  and private equity firm Texas Pacific Group have proposed buying out Australian airline Qantas Airways  in a deal that could be worth more than A$10 billion ($7.7 billion), pushing Qantas shares up as much as 21 percent.
486667
Citigroup Inc.  is in advanced  talks to buy Automated Trading Desk, an electronic trading  firm, for about $700 million, The Wall Street Journal Online  reported on Tuesday.
41076
U.S. pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts Inc.  said on Monday it was offering to buy rival Caremark RX  for about $26 billion, threatening to break up a deal struck last month with drugstore chain CVS Corp. .
524236
PacifiCare Health Systems Inc. will pay $502 million to buy all outstanding shares of common stock of American Medical Security. Under the terms of the merger agreement, Cypress-based PacifiCare will pay $32.
481268
IT services company Synstar plc, of Bracknell, England, has been acquired by Hewlett-Packard Co., of Palo Alto, for about $293.3 million.
659090
NEW YORK - New Jersey-based Pathmark Stores Inc. stock plunged after the grocery chain warned it expects to report a loss this year in the wake of disappointing third-quarter sales.
145732
Advanced Medical Optics Inc.  on Thursday confirmed it was interested in exploring a potential acquisition of Bausch & Lomb Inc.  and offering a superior price than the eye-care company's deal to be bought by a private equity firm for $3.67 billion.
545639
America West Airlines is in talks to buy all or part of ATA Holdings Corp., parent of ATA Airlines, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday night on its Web site.
425075
Resolution and Friends Provident are in discussions to create a company with a market value of about $17 billion.
595171
Advanced Medical Optics Inc.  has offered to buy larger eye-care company Bausch & Lomb Inc.  for $4.23 billion, topping a rival offer of $3.67 billion from private equity firm Warburg Pincus , sources familiar with the situation said on Thursday.
668747
Philips might have started selling PCs again, but they are still outsourcing their internal PC needs. And Dell is the lucky one to get the deal worth around USD 700 millions!
552654
British life insurers Resolution   and Friends Provident  confirmed on Monday that they are  in advanced merger discussions that could lead to the creation  of a group worth over 8 billion pounds ($16.4 billion).
264293
Pathmark Stores, which owns 142 supermarkets in the city and throughout the northeast, hired Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein to advise it on options, including a possible sale of the company.
560518
New York (dpa) - Health-care conglomerate Johnson &amp; Johnson is in advanced negotiations to buy defibrillator maker Guidant Corp.
165840
Johnson and Johnson is in negotiations to acquire Guidant, one of the largest American makers of devices to treat heart and circulatory illnesses.
488130
Alcoa Inc. is part of a three-company consortium that will buy a major natural-gas pipeline in Australia for $1.3 billion. The consortium, which includes Diversified Utility &amp; Energy Trusts (DUET) and Alinta