MetLife to Buy Travelers for &#36;11.5 Bln
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MetLife Inc. on Monday agreed to acquire Travelers Life & Annuity from Citigroup Inc. for &#36;11.5 billion, bolstering its product reach while sounding Citigroup's retreat from the one-stop financial supermarket concept.
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Wireless service provider MetroPCS Communications Inc  said on Tuesday it proposed buying competitor Leap Wireless International Inc  for more than $5 billion in stock.
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Mortgage insurer MGIC Investment   plans to buy rival Radian Group Inc.  for about  $5 billion, the companies said on Tuesday, a move that will  allow them to cut costs.
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AirTran Holdings Inc.  said on Wednesday it had offered to buy rival Midwest Air Group Inc. .
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Retail group Metoz Holdings on Monday announced that Metcash Australia had made an offer to buy out all the issued shares of Metoz at 2.65 rand a share.
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Expedia Inc.  said on Tuesday that it would spend as much as $3.5 billion to buy back more than a third of the online travel company's shares at a premium of at least 8 percent to Monday's closing price.
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Sabre Holdings Corp. , owner of the Travelocity Web site, on Tuesday said it has agreed to be sold to private equity firms Silver Lake Partners and Texas Pacific Group  for $32.75 per share in cash, or about $4.45 billion.
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Newton-based Hospitality Properties Trust , the owner of 310 hotels, has agreed to buy TravelCenters of America Inc. for about $1.9 billion, adding 161 rest stops along US highways that sell food and fuel to truckers and other motorists.
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Travel and real estate heavyweight Cendant Corp.  is nearing a deal to buy online travel site Orbitz Inc. , which is controlled by the top five U.S. airlines, for about &#36;1.2 billion in cash, a source close to the talks said on Tuesday.
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Mortgage insurer MGIC Investment  plans to buy rival Radian Group Inc.  for about $5.47 billion, the companies said on Tuesday, a move that will allow them to cut costs amid shrinking demand that has been hurt further by a slowing housing market.
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NYSE Group Inc.  on Thursday  reached agreement to buy Paris-based Euronext , for  about 7.78 billion euros (&#36;9.96 billion), putting it ahead in  the race to create the first transatlantic stock exchange.
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MetLife Inc. is in late-stage negotiations to sell one of Boston's oldest investment firms, State Street Research &amp; Management Co., to another New York financial giant, BlackRock Inc., according to two executives briefed on the talks.
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The insurance giant will buy Travelers Life & Annuity, and most of Citigroup's foreign insurance units, for $11.5 billion.
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Station Casinos Inc.  said on Monday it agreed to a $5.4 billion management-led buyout, after the investor group buying the company raised its offer by about 10 percent.
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NYSE Euronext, the world's largest financial market group, said Friday it will pick up a five percent stake in Mumbai's multi-commodity exchange MCX for 55 million dollars.
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Fannie Mae , the embattled U.S. home financing company, on Wednesday said it agreed to sell &#36;5 billion in preferred stock to institutional buyers as part of an effort to comply with regulatory demands to increase capital.
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MetLife Inc. said on Tuesday that it paid brokers and consultants about $25 million last year in &quot;contingent payments,&quot; which are the subject of a probe by New York state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.