UPDATE 1-Potlatch to sell $457.5 mln in assets to Ainsworth
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Forest products company Potlatch Corp. (PCH.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Wednesday it agreed to sell certain plants and assets to Canada-based Ainsworth Lumber Co.
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LONDON/NEW YORK  - InterContinental Hotels Group  Plc IHG.L said on Friday it was selling 13 hotels to  Hospitality Properties Trust HPT.N for $450 million, as part  of its strategy to sell hotels it owns and focus on franchising  and managing instead.
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Retailer Woolworths raised its bid Thursday for Australian Leisure &amp; Hospitality Group (ALH) by 15 percent to Aust. $1.11 billion ($795 million), topping an offer by private equity firm Newbridge Capital.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Charles Schwab Corp. is paying David Pottruck, ousted as chief executive officer in July, a lump-sum payment of $6.
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The American millionaire yesterday splashed another Â£17million to buy a further six million shares to add to the Â£45m purchase he made late on Friday.
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SYDNEY/LONDON  - Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto Ltd/Plc has agreed to buy Canada's Alcan Inc. for $38.1 billion to create the world's biggest aluminum producer, the two firms said on Thursday.
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Abu Dhabi National Energy Co   will buy Canada&#39;s Primewest Energy Trust (PWI_u.TO)  for C$5 billion in cash, Primewest said on Monday, as the  state-controlled firm makes good on plans to turn its new  Canadian unit into a major oil producer.
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NEW YORK - Anadarko Petroleum Corp. has agreed to sell some US onshore properties for $850 million in cash and interests in two Wyoming fields as part of a plan to raise $2.
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CALGARY - EnCana Corp. is selling its North Sea operations for $2.1 billion US in cash to another Canadian company, Nexen Inc. The UK subsidiary of EnCana has a stake in three oilfields, plus interests in
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Failed US energy giant Enron has been given permission to sell its most prized remaining asset - its natural gas pipeline arm CrossCountry Energy.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Alcoa, Diversified Utility &amp; Energy Trusts and Alinta have agreed to buy Epic Energy&#39;s Dampier to Bunbury natural gas pipeline in Western Australia for $1.
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AGL has agreed to sell its majority shareholding to Vector at $3.00 per share - a deal worth $877.4 million in total. Bloomberg noted that NGC would provide Vector with North Island gas pipelines, adding to
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Legg Mason Inc. LM.N, one of the  fastest-growing U.S. asset management companies, on Wednesday  said it plans a public offering of 4 million shares, a sale  that could raise almost $300 million.
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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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Rio Tinto Ltd./Plc. has agreed to buy Canadian aluminum company Alcan Inc. for $38.1 billion, in a move that creates the world's biggest aluminum company.
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Business & money: Â· Drinks group signs Â£460m deal with Ketel OneÂ· Dutch vodka expected to cut into top seller's market
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Anadarko Petroleum Corp. has agreed to  sell oil properties in the Gulf of Mexico to Apache Corp. for  $537 million and a royalty interest to Morgan Stanley Capital  Group Inc. for $775 million as part of a plan to slash debt and  buy back stock, Anadarko said on Friday.