Shareholders Approve Mercâs Buyout of CBOT
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The Chicago Board of Trade got the final approval from shareholders to merge with the Merc in an $11.9 billion deal.
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Rio Tinto shareholders have backed the Anglo-Australian mining giant&#39;s bid to buy Canada&#39;s Alcan and create the world&#39;s largest aluminium firm, the company said Friday.
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Shareholders of Australian retailer Coles Group Ltd. on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly in favor of a $17 billion buyout from conglomerate Wesfarmers Ltd. in Australia's largest-ever takeover bid.
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Equity Office Properties Trust   shareholders on Wednesday overwhelmingly voted to approve  Blackstone Group's bid of $23 billion plus the assumption of  debt.
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U.S. shopping mall owner Heritage Property Investment Trust Inc.  said on Tuesday its stockholders have approved the company's merger with Australia's Centro Properties Group.
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Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc.  said on Friday it increased its takeover offer for CBOT Holdings Inc. , winning the support of Caledonia Investments Pty. Ltd., CBOT's biggest shareholder.
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Alltel Corp. shareholders overwhelmingly approved a $24.7 billion buyout Wednesday that put the wireless company in the hands of two private investor groups.
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Shareholders approved Aether Systems Inc.'s sale of one of its two remaining operating divisions yesterday, a deal that will take the Owings Mills company out of the wireless business and nearly complete its transformation into a mortgage investment fund.
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer shareholders voted overwhelmingly on Friday to approve the film studio's sale to a Sony Corp.-led consortium that includes cable television giant Comcast Corp.
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IntercontinentalExchange Inc.   said on Wednesday it reached an agreement with the Chicago  Board Options Exchange to resolve a dispute over exercise  rights between the CBOE and CBOT Holdings  in the event  of a merger between the ICE and CBOT.
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Barclays Bank wins the backing of most of its investors to go ahead with its takeover of Dutch rival ABN Amro.
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News Corp. shareholders approved Rupert Murdoch&#39;s plan to move his media company to the US from Australia, making it easier to raise money for expansion and allowing the stock to be
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Playtex Products Inc  said on Thursday that its shareholders approved for the maker of sunscreen and tampons to be acquired by battery company Energizer Holdings Inc .
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Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings raised its bid for CBOT Holdings, parent of the Chicago Board of Trade, for the second time in five weeks, adding a $485 million dividend to its earlier $10.19 billion proposal.
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Eric Barkas City Editor SHAREHOLDERS in the pay-TV company BSkyB have cleared the way for Rupert Murdoch&#39;s News Corp to increase its stake.
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Shareholders of Spain's largest bank, Banco Santander Central (SCH), overwhelmingly approved the 8.5-billion-pound (12.3-billion-euro, 15.3-billion-dollar) takeover of British mortgage bank Abbey National.
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The Russian Competition Institution has approved the sale of Baykal Finans Group, which had purchased Yuganskneftgaz, the main oil production of Yukos, to state company Rosneft.