Bancrofts reject lawyers' WSJ safeguard plan: report
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The Bancroft family that controls Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co.  has rejected its own lawyers' draft of a plan to protect the paper's independence as too timid, according to the New York Times.
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Twenty-nine investment firms, including some of Wall Street's biggest names, have been fined a total $9.2 million by securities regulators who said they were late in reporting disciplinary history and other data about their brokers. The investment arms of Merrill Lynch &amp; Co. and Wachovia Corp. were barred from registering new brokers for five business days.
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The New York Times Co. has rejected a proposal by a group of Boston businessmen to buy The Boston Globe.
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Business & money: Shares fall on firmly denied report that investment arm was exposed to failure of German bank.
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Shares of international media giant News Corp. (Nasdaq: NWSWI) fell nearly 4% yesterday following the company&#39;s announcement that it adopted a &quot;shareholder rights plan
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Two business groups urged the U.S.  Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday not to reinstate a  Web tool aimed at helping investors identify companies with  investments in countries the United States designates as  "sponsors of terrorism."
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General Electric Co.  and Pearson Plc  may challenge News Corp.'s  $5 billion bid for Dow Jones & Co. , with a plan that could let Dow Jones's controlling family to keep an interest in the company, the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal reported on their Web sites on Sunday.
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Unionized Wall Street Journal reporters didn't show up for work yesterday morning to protest Rupert Murdoch's bid for the Journal's parent company, as well as Dow Jones &amp; Co.'s proposals for a new labor contract.
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Media & professional: The board of WSJ-owner Dow Jones votes to sell firm to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, pending approval of the Bancrofts.
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The Supreme Court dealt Enron investors a defeat Tuesday, rejecting their lawsuit alleging securities fraud by Wall Street investment banks that did business with the Texas energy company.
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An in-house Merrill Lynch &amp; Co. lawyer didn&#39;t support the brokerage&#39;s harried $7 million investment in Enron Corp.-owned barges at the end of 1999 and would have blocked it had she known of an alleged verbal
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Proxy advisory firm Glass Lewis said on Friday it recommended that shareholders of Caremark Rx Inc.  reject the planned $24 billion takeover by drug-store chain CVS Corp.
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GenCorp (GY.N: Quote, Profile, Research) is expected to reject a $17 per share offer from US investment fund Steel Partners II, according to a report by CNBC.
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Investor's Business Daily - Washington wouldn't let China buy a U.S. firm that made on-board processors for cruise missiles.
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Dow Jones &amp; Co.'s controlling Bancroft family reversed course and said it plans to meet with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. to discuss his $5 billion bid for the publisher of The Wall Street Journal.
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General Electric Co. and Pearson Plc may challenge News Corp.'s $5 billion bid for Dow Jones & Co., with a plan that could let Dow Jones's controlling Bancroft family keep an interest in the company, the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal reported on their Web sites on...
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BOSTON/NEW YORK  - Members of the Bancroft family, which controls Dow Jones & Co. Inc. , met in Boston on Monday to consider a $5 billion offer by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp   for the publisher of The Wall Street Journal.