CME urges CBOT members to vote in favor of merger
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Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings  Inc.  on Friday urged shareholders and members of the  Chicago Board of Trade to vote in favor of CME&#39;s offer to take  over CBOT, the No. 2 U.S. futures exchange.
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One of Canada's largest pension funds  said on Tuesday it will vote in favor of the proposed merger of  Canada's Molson Inc. MOLa.TO  and Adolph Coors Co. RKY.N of  the United States, making it the first major shareholder to  publicly back the deal between the two brewers.
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Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc.  on Thursday sweetened its bid for CBOT Holdings Inc.  with a $9.14-per-share special dividend for CBOT shareholders.
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Raytheon Co. (NYSE: RTN) said on Tuesday that its board will ask investors to vote on a proposal that would eliminate its classified board structure.
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MONTREAL (CP) - Molson Inc. executives will not get to vote their options as shares in the coming vote on the proposed merger with Adolph Coors Co.
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The boards of directors of SBC Communications Inc.  and AT&T Corp.  were to meet on Sunday to vote on a more than &#36;15 billion stock deal in which SBC will buy AT&T, according to sources familiar with the situation.
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TORONTO - Goldcorp is allowing its shareholders to vote on a proposed merger with Wheaton River Minerals. Goldcorp&#39;s board of directors decided to schedule a shareholder vote on the merger after a hostile takeover bid emerged from Glamis Gold.
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Influential advisory firm Institutional  Shareholder Services has recommended that shareholders vote  against billionaire Carl Icahn&#39;s sweetened $3 billion buyout  offer for Lear Corp.
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Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc.  said on Friday it increased its takeover offer for CBOT Holdings Inc. , winning the support of Caledonia Investments Pty. Ltd., CBOT's biggest shareholder.
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IntercontinentalExchange Inc.   may have helped its bid for CBOT Holdings  by reaching  an agreement aimed at resolving a dispute between CBOT and the  Chicago Board Options Exchange, The Wall Street Journal  reported on its Web site on Wednesday.
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Shareholders of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc  and CBOT Holdings Inc  voted on Monday to merge the two largest U.S. futures exchanges under one roof.
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Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc.  said on Friday it agreed to increase its merger offer for CBOT Holdings Inc.  ahead of a shareholder vote on Monday.
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Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings  Inc.  plans to sweeten its bid for CBOT Holdings Inc.   by adding a special dividend for CBOT shareholders, the  Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
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- CBOT Holdings Inc.  said on Thursday that it is not a party to a settlement agreement between Louisiana Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System (LAMPERS) and CME Holdings Inc. .
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U.S. Federal Trade Commission Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras is consulting with the agency&#39;s ethics officer to see if she should recuse herself from a review of&#160;Google&#39;s planned acquisition of online ad network DoubleClick.On Wednesday, two technology lobbying organizations called on Majoras to recuse herself, citing her husband&#39;s involvement in the matter. John Majoras is a partner with Jones Day, the law firm that is advising DoubleClick on antitrust issues relating to the US$3.1 billion buyout. Jones Day representatives, including John Majoras, did not immediately return calls seeking comment.Chairman Majoras &quot;has previously recused herself in similar matters for similar reasons where there was a lesser conflict of interest,&quot; representatives of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) wrote in a complaint submitted to the U.S. regulator late Wednesday. &quot;It is clear that she must recuse herself now.&quot;The chairman is now reviewing the matter with the FTC&#39;s chief ethics officer, Christian White, but an FTC spokeswoman on Wednesday downplayed the possible conflict of interest. John Majoras&#39; law firm has not appeared before the FTC in this matter, according to FTC spokeswoman Claudia Farrell. &quot;We learned only yesterday that Jones Day is representing DoubleClick before the European Commission, not the Federal Trade Commission,&quot; she said.Even so, the Jones Day connection may have influenced FTC staffers or the chairman herself, said Jeff Chester, executive director with the CDD. &quot;There&#39;s no question that there&#39;s a stealth set of influences here that could have shaped the staff opinion,&quot; he said. &quot;We do not know what impact it might have on the chairman.&quot;Jones Day is advising DoubleClick on &quot;international and U.S. antitrust and competition law aspects of its planned $3.1 billion acquisition by Google,&quot; the law firm says in a note on its Web site.The deal has come under scrutiny from regulators in the U.S. and Europe who are examining whether it will give Google too much control over the Internet advertising market and too much data on the online behavior of its users.&#160;
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The Securities and Exchange Commission is expected to vote Tuesday to bar mutual fund companies from steering their stock and bond business to brokerage firms that promote the fund companies' products.
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Shareholders at Alcatel CGEP.PA and   Lucent Technologies Inc. LU.N on Thursday separately voted in   favor of a merger under which the French telecoms equipment   firm buys its U.S. rival in a $10.9 billion deal.