State Street to buy rival for $4.5 bln in stock
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State Street Corp.  said on Monday it would acquire Investors Financial Services Corp.  for $4.5 billion in stock in a bid to service a bigger chunk of mutual and hedge fund assets.
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Iberdrola plans to buy the regional utility owner Energy East Corporation for $4.5 billion in cash.
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LONDON/NEW YORK  - Qatar's state investment fund is close to buying Nasdaq's 31 percent stake in the London Stock Exchange Group  for just over $5.6 billion, newspaper reports said on Sunday.
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Insurer Standard Life has agreed to buy  rival Resolution for 4.9 billion pounds ($10.1 billion),  topping a competing offer and breaking up Resolution's planned  merger with Friends Provident.
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Bank of America said Friday it would purchase embattled mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp. for $4 billion in an all-stock transaction.
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Similar deals are expected to follow Bank of America Corp's  agreement on Friday to acquire battered mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp  for a knock-down price of $4 billion in stock.
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State Street Corp.  said on Monday it would acquire Investors Financial Services Corp.  for $4.5 billion in stock, the latest takeover in the mutual and hedge fund servicing industry.
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Shares of State Street Corp.  fell 4 percent on Tuesday on worries about the company's more than $20 billion in commitments to asset-backed commercial paper programs.
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Morgan Stanley's  real estate unit said on Thursday it would buy Australia's Investa Properties Ltd.  for A$4.7 billion (US$3.9 billion), the latest in a string of property takeovers by the U.S. investment bank.
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Bank of America agrees to buy the troubled mortgage lender for 'bargain-basement' price of around $4 billion.
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BlackRock Inc. BLK.N, one of the  largest U.S. fixed income managers, on Thursday said it will  buy its far smaller competitor State Street Research &  Management Co., marking the biggest takeover in the asset  management business this year.
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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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A privately-owned Dutch steelmaker headed by billionaire Lakshmi Mittal is buying US-based International Steel Group Inc. for about $4.
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BlackRock Inc. BLK.N, one of the  largest U.S. fixed income managers, on Thursday said it will  buy its far smaller competitor State Street Research &  Management Co. in the biggest takeover in the asset management  industry this year.
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AMSTERDAM -- Steel tycoon Lakshmi N. Mittal yesterday said he would pay $4.5 billion in cash and stock for US steelmaker International Steel Group Inc., which had been cobbled together by onetime investment banker Wilbur L. Ross Jr. from mills whose parents landed in bankruptcy court.
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U.S. investment bank Citigroup is set to  bid for UK stockbroker Cazenove CAZ.UL, challenging rivals JP  Morgan JPM.L and Lehman Brothers LEH.N for the City's most  venerable institution, the Observer reported.
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State Street Corp  said on Thursday it will take a $279 million fourth-quarter charge after making bad bets on subprime mortgages and other debt, and said it replaced its investment management chief.