Iberdrola says U.S. buy to help EPS, but shares dip
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Iberdrola shares lost about 2 percent on  Tuesday after the Spanish power group said it would buy U.S.  Energy East Corp. for $4.5 billion and that the acquisition  would add to earnings from year one.
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European stock markets eased back in early trading as dealers digested some disappointing earnings news on both sides of the Atlantic.
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European shares were little changed near  29-month highs on Tuesday but the world's biggest paper maker  Stora Enso fell after saying its fourth quarter will be tough.
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The private equity business hit bumps. A deal was struck for a possible Dow Jones sale, and the Supreme Court struck down a longstanding rule on product pricing.
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NEW YORK/LONDON  - Higher interest rates in Europe and growing uncertainty over the cost of borrowing in the United States could slow down parts of the global mergers and acquisitions boom, experts say.
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U.S. stocks fell on Tuesday as a drop  in oil prices pulled down shares of energy companies and  health-care giant Johnson & Johnson JNJ.N slipped following a  report that it is in negotiations to take over Guidant Corp.  GDT.N.
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Japan's Nikkei average slipped 1.11 percent on Wednesday to its lowest finish in nearly two weeks, hurt by a tumble in U.S. stocks and a stronger yen by offering to buy a further 25 percent stake in the ailing chip maker for $1.25 billion.
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Iberdrola plans to buy the regional utility owner Energy East Corporation for $4.5 billion in cash.
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European stocks were slightly lower by mid-day in holiday-hit trading on Monday, with crude oil rises weighing on shares, though Sanofi-Aventis gained on the result of trials of an anti-obesity drug.
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Higher interest rates in Europe  and growing uncertainty over the cost of borrowing in the  United States could slow down parts of the global mergers and  acquisitions boom, experts say.
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MADRID/LONDON  - Spain's Iberdrola  has agreed to buy Scottish Power  for 11.6 billion pounds ($22.5 billion) in cash and shares to create Europe's third-biggest utility and a world leader in renewable energy.
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Americans have been stepping up their international purchases of stocks and bonds as the dollar&#39;s decline has accelerated and foreign investors have slowed their buying of securities in the United States.
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U.S. stocks slid on Thursday after a   report said factory activity contracted in the U.S.   Mid-Atlantic region in September for the first time in over   three years, prompting worries about a slowdown in the U.S.   economy and corporate profits.
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Business & money: Share price plunges after disappointing profits raising fears over America's economic slowdown
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Spanish power firm Iberdrola is expanding into the US by buying Energy East Corp for $4.5bn.
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US stock-index futures were little changed. Dow Jones Industrial Average shares including General Electric Co. slipped in Europe. Citigroup Inc.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Shares of Elan Corp. and Biogen Idec rose in after-hours trading Tuesday after Tysabri, a drug used for the treatment of multiple sclerosis, was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration.