Kerkorian to Offer $1.4 Billion for 16% of Tesoro, an Oil Refiner
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Kirk Kerkorian, a 90-year-old billionaire, plans a $1.4 billion tender offer to acquire a 16 percent stake in Tesoro, a United States refiner whose profit jumped tenfold in the last four years.
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Texas Instruments Inc., the  largest maker of chips for cellular phones, on Thursday said it  plans to buy back $1 billion in stock and boost its quarterly  dividend by more than 17 percent, becoming the latest  technology company to return extra cash to investors.
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Tetra Tech, Inc. (NASDAQ:TTEK) announced today that the U.S. Army  Research and Development Command Acquisition Center has awarded a $62  million Program Management, Integration Support contract for the U.S.
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The Delphi Corporation said today that a group of private equity firms had agreed to invest up to $3.4 billion in the auto parts company once it emerges from bankruptcy protection.
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KBR , a former unit of  Halliburton Co. , Dyncorp International Inc.  and  Fluor Corp.  were awarded parts of a U.S. Army contract  with a combined potential value of up to $150 billion to  provide services to the military in the Middle East.
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Halliburton, the oil field services provider, said yesterday that it would complete its separation from KBR Inc. by offering current stockholders the remaining 81 percent stake in KBR, its former subsidiary.
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Investor Kirk Kerkorian on Thursday   said he could raise his stake in General Motors Corp GM.N to   about 12 percent and urged the automaker's board to take a   "strong" role in reviewing a potential alliance with   Renault-Nissan.
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U.S. equity fund Lone Star  is selling part of its two-thirds stake in Korea Exchange Bank (KEB)  in a block trade to raise up to $1.08 billion, sources familiar with the deal said on Thursday.
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By JULIA ANDERSON  A Vancouver-based energy company has generated newspaper headlines in Ohio this week with its proposed coal and biowaste fuel plant valued at $4 billion.
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Chaparral Steel has accepted a $4.22 billion takeover offer from Gerdau Ameristeel in the latest consolidation move in the steel industry.
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First Reserve Corp., the largest private buyout firm specializing in energy-industry investments, agreed to buy an oil and gas equipment business of Ingersoll-Rand Co.
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SYDNEY (Dow Jones)--Australian engineering company Worley Group Ltd. (WOR.AU) has placed shares with institutional investors at A$4.
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Deal to purchase the streaming-media tools developer is valued at nearly $160 million in cash and stock.
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Dubai Ports World, which owns P&O, expects to make more than $4bn as it lists 17% of the firm's shares.
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HOUSTON, Texas - The turnaround specialist hired to get Enron out of bankruptcy is asking for $25 million for almost reaching the end of the tunnel.
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Bruce Wasserstein that runs Lazard is said to try to get the approval for the IPO by Tuesday and get as much as $3.4 billion for it.
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US energy group Tesoro Corporation said it agreed to buy an oil refinery, an energy terminal and 250 gasoline stations in California from Anglo-Dutch Royal Dutch Shell for 1.6 billion dollars.