Cox Enterprises to Buy Cox Public Stake
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Cox Enterprises Inc. on Tuesday said  it will purchase Cox Communications Inc.'s COX.N minority  public stake for $8.3 billion, in a move to privatize the  publicly traded cable company and insulate it from the short  term demands of Wall Street.
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U.S. conglomerate General Electric Co.  has agreed to buy British maker of oilfield services equipment Sondex Plc  for 288.7 million pounds ($583.1 million) in cash, the two companies said on Monday.
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An investment group is expected to announce Monday that it has struck a deal to buy British water utility AWG PLC  for about $4.12 billion (2.2 billion pounds, a source familiar with the situation told Reuters on Sunday.
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Cox Communications Inc., the No. 4  U.S. cable television provider, said late on Tuesday  it formed  a committee of independent directors to consider a $7.9 billion  offer from its controlling family to take the company private.
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Rural telephone provider Citizens   Communications Co. CZN.N said on Monday it agreed to buy   Commonwealth Telephone Enterprises Inc. CTCO.O for $1.16   billion to expand its business in rural Pennsylvania.
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A private equity firm buys its medical-imaging division.
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Exelon, which owns utility companies in Illinois and Pennsylvania, has said that it will buy Public Service Enterprise Group of New Jersey in a deal valued at about $12.8 billion that would create the largest power company in the United States.
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Johnson &amp; Johnson announced last night that will buy medical-device maker Guidant for $23.9 billion in cash and stock. The deal, approved by both boards but subject to regulator approval, is one of the largest
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Cox Enterprises Inc. on Tuesday said it will purchase Cox Communications Inc.'s  minority public stake for &#36;8.3 billion, in a move to privatize the publicly traded cable company and insulate it from the short term demands of Wall Street.
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Orthopedic device maker Biomet Inc.  said on Monday it has agreed to be acquired by a private equity consortium for about $10.9 billion.
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ReAble Therapeutics, the orthopedic-device maker controlled by the private equity company Blackstone Group, agreed to purchase DJO for $1.6 billion.
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LONDONâWPP Group PLC, the London-based advertising giant, said yesterday it was buying US-based Grey Global Group Inc. in a $1.52 billion (US) cash and stock deal.
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Orthopedic device maker Biomet Inc.   said on Monday it has agreed to be acquired by a  private equity consortium for about $10.9 billion.
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Battery maker Rayovac Corp. ROV.N on  Tuesday said it would buy United Industries Corp., a maker of  lawn and garden products, for about $476 million in cash and  stock in a bid to diversify its product mix.
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A unit of the industrial, financial and media conglomerate General Electric Co. said Wednesday it will buy the water treatment company Ionics Inc.
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Banc of America Securities lowered its rating on Cox Communications (nyse: COX - news - people ) to &quot;neutral&quot; from &quot;buy,&quot; citing the announcement of a deal between the cable and broadband communications company and its closely held parent company, Cox
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INDIANAPOLIS - New Jersey-based health care products giant Johnson &amp; Johnson is buying Guidant Corp., one of the world&#39;s top makers of cardiac devices, for about $25.4 billion in cash and stock.