Private equity deals set record
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A rush of multibillion-dollar buyouts  has catapulted the volume of private equity deals to their  highest level on record, data published on Tuesday shows.
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The initial public offerings of 67 venture capital-funded U.S. companies raised &#36;4.98 billion in 2004, more than tripling from the &#36;1.41 billion raised in 22 deals during 2003, VentureOne said on Saturday.
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Private equity firms, until recently the high flyers of finance, have had a tough summer.
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Private equity firms have demonstrated strength in numbers by teaming up to make significant acquisitions, and as some firms keep expanding, investors say the trend toward "club" deals will help them snag assets that once were out of their grasp.
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The deal, for $17.50 per share, continues a recent trend of networking and telecommunications firms being bought by private equity firms.
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Business & money: Â· Shares hit record high after Â£732m market raidÂ· Emirate royal family is now biggest shareholder
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The private equity firm blows up one of its marquee deals.
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The broker breaks records with its third-quarter results.
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Deals allowing small investors to get in on private equity transactions are flourishing. What does that mean for the investors?
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Private equity firms have found a new business where they can place their multibillion-dollar bets: gambling.
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By Linda Loyd, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Jan. 31--A small Malvern biopharmaceutical company, Ception Therapeutics Inc., has raised $63 million, the largest private-equity investment in the Philadelphia area in three years.
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The Dow industrials rose to a record high on Monday amid a broad advance by stocks as takeover deals totaling more than $77 billion suggested to investors that equities could still gain further.
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A record 22 agreements valued at billions of US dollars were signed yesterday in Beijing between China and Germany while a series of deals were sealed between China Italy.
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The month of May saw a record of more than $110 billion of foreign investments in U.S. stocks and corporate bonds.
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At 77, Warren E. Buffett, the countryâs most famous investor, is in the midst of his hottest streak in almost a decade. And he is capping his run with a flurry of deal-making.
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Business & money: Â· Brown pressed to reform private equity concessionsÂ· Campaigners seize on tax admission
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Shares in retailer Woolworths Group PLC surged by 22 percent Monday after a private equity firm said it is considering making a takeover offer.