No vote needed for ABN&#39;s LaSalle sale: adviser
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ABN AMRO&#39;s sale of U.S. subsidiary  LaSalle does not need shareholders&#39; approval, a law professor  advising the Dutch Supreme Court said on Tuesday, raising the  chances of Barclays taking over the Dutch bank.
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Bank of America Corp  on Friday  said it has won approval from the U.S. Federal Reserve for its  $21 billion acquisition of LaSalle Bank Corp from Dutch bank  ABN AMRO Holding NV .
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The Reserve Bank of Australia&#39;s board meets today and will probably keep interest rates unchanged ahead of an election next month as retail sales and house prices fall.
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Airline Partners Australia (APA), a  consortium bidding for Australia's Qantas Airways ,  said on Friday it would not increase its $8.7 billion buyout  offer for the airline.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Finance Minister Ralph Goodale refused to comment Thursday on rumours that the federal government is on the verge of a multibillion-dollar sale of its stake in Petro-Canada.
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Airline Partners Australia (APA), a consortium bidding for Australia's Qantas Airways , said on Friday it would not increase its $8.7 billion buyout offer for the airline.
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The Australian competition regulator  said on Tuesday it would not block the $3.1 billion acquisition  by Google Inc of DoubleClick Inc, a U.S. Web advertising  supplier.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Friday dropped his objections to a national carbon emissions trading scheme but said he would not be rushed into setting targets that could damage the economy.
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SYDNEY (Dow Jones)--Australian energy company Alinta Ltd. (ALN.AU) said Monday that Australia&#39;s competition regulator won&#39;t oppose its joint bid for the Dampier to Bunbury gas pipeline in Western Australia state.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- ABN Amro's sale of its U.S. arm LaSalle to Bank of America was lawful, the Dutch Supreme Court ruled Friday _ overturning a lower court's move blocking the sale and making the $21 billion sale virtually certain to succeed.
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The Dutch government&#39;s legal representative to the supreme court issued an opinion Tuesday potentially favorable to a bid by British bank Barclays for ABN Amro, a Dutch banking giant also courted by the Royal Bank of Scotland.
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Bank of America Corp  on Friday won approval from the U.S. Federal Reserve for its $21 billion acquisition of LaSalle Bank Corp from Dutch bank ABN AMRO Holding NV .
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A possible alliance between Air France-KLM and the Italian national carrier Alitalia would not lead to cutbacks in jobs, the chief executive of Air France-KLM, Jean-Cyril Spinetta, has said.
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Analysts see little need to spin off the retailer's commercial supply business.
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The ABN Amro bid battle takes a new twist after a top lawyer says the Dutch bank can sell its US unit without a shareholder vote.
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Dutch bank ABN Amro, at the centre of the biggest takeover in the banking industry, on Sunday confirmed its neutral stance on the rival bids of Barclays and the three-bank consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland.
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THE decision by the US Federal Reserve to raise interest rates for the third month in a row would have little effect on the Reserve Bank of Australia&#39;s deliberations on monetary policy, economists said yesterday.