Bear Stearns to Buy TimesSquare Bond Firm
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Bear Stearns Cos. BSC.N on Tuesday  said its asset management arm agreed to buy Cigna Corp.'s  CI.N TimesSquare Capital Management Inc. bond business, which  oversees $6 billion of assets for pension plans and other  institutional investors.
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BBVA  took a fresh step toward its long-held ambition to grow in the United States on Friday when it said it had agreed to buy U.S. bank Compass Bancshares Inc  for $9.6 billion.
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Bear Stearns Cos. , the biggest broker for US hedge funds, has offered to provide $1.5 billion in loans to help rescue a money-losing fund run by its asset management unit, according to a person familiar with the situation.
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Bear Stearns Cos. Inc.  on Friday said it would provide up to $3.2 billion in financing for a struggling hedge fund it manages, but sources said a second fund is still working out a restructuring plan with creditors.
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Tishman Speyer Properties and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.  are close to a deal to acquire real estate investment trust Archstone-Smith Trust , according to the online edition of The Wall Street Journal.
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Charterhouse Capital Partners LLP, a London-based buyout firm, agreed to buy UK vacation and insurance company Saga Ltd. for 1.35 billion pounds ($2.
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Spain's BBVA has agreed to buy U.S. bank Compass Bancshares Inc. for $9.6 billion in cash and shares, realizing a long-held goal to gain a solid footing in the United States.
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Joseph C. Lewis, who became a billionaire trading currencies, has taken a 7 percent stake in Bear Stearns Cos Inc , snapping up about $860 million worth of the investment bank's stock over the past two months.
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Bear Stearns shares rose 7.7 percent yesterday on speculation that investors including Warren E. Buffett may buy all or part of the company.
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LONDON  - Reuters, the British news and data provider, said it had agreed to buy US financial information firm Moneyline Telerate for 175 million dollars.
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Global banking giant HSBC said Monday it had agreed to buy a majority stake in South Korea&#39;s Korea Exchange Bank from US private equity fund Lone Star for about 6.3 billion dollars (4.6 billion euros) in cash.
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Bear Stearns Cos Inc's  management shake-up could make the investment bank a takeover target, but the specter of more write-downs and possible legal entanglements from the subprime credit crisis might keep suitors on the sidelines, analysts said on Tuesday.
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NEW YORK, June 22 -- Bear Stearns confirmed Friday it will bail out one of its troubled hedge funds with $3.2 billion in secured loans, but the Wall Street firm sought to convince the broader market that its troubles were "relatively contained."
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NEW YORK -- Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. has reached a tentative agreement to buy Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co., the Journal reported on its Web site late Monday.
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Exelon Corp., owner of the largest power companies in Illinois and Pennsylvania, agreed to buy New Jersey&#39;s Public Service Enterprise Group Inc.
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Bear Stearns said Friday that it would provide a loan of up to $3.2 billion to a hedge fund operated by its asset-management business, in an effort to placate lenders and investors.
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Bear Stearns, the securities firm that had a big part in triggering the collapse of the subprime market, yesterday reported the first quarterly losses in eight decades in business after write-downs for mortgage holdings and declines in trading and investment banking.