Halladale sets out stall with 7.5m market deal
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HALLADALE, the Scottish property developer and investor, has maintained its recent flow of activity by selling the leasehold on a landmark building in Carlisle for around 7.5 million.
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Nasdaq  launched its 2.7 billion  pound ($5.3 billion) hostile bid for the London Stock Exchange   on Tuesday, appealing directly to investors after being  spurned by Europe's biggest stock market.
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The Dutch retail giant Ahold said Tuesday it had finalised the sale of its US division US Foodservice to private equity funds Clayton, Dubilier, Rice and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts for 7.1 billion dollars (5.2 billion euros).
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Silk Cut cigarette maker Gallaher receives a takeover approach, which values the company at Â£7.5bn.
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UK brewer Scottish & Newcastle agrees to be bought by Heineken and Carlsberg for Â£7.8bn.
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Nasdaq launched its 2.7 billion pound ($5.3 billion) hostile bid for the London Stock Exchange on Tuesday, needing just over a fifth of LSE shareholders to accept for it to take control of the bourse.
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Alcoa  on Friday said it has agreed to sell its packaging and consumer businesses to New Zealand's Rank Group Limited for $2.7 billion in cash.
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Business & money: Deal forced to be scrapped as the fallout from the sub-prime markets continues to spread
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The London Stock Exchange  may  now seek alliances with other bourses, such as Tokyo, after the  failure of Nasdaq Stock Market's  2.7-billion-pound  ($5.3 billion) hostile bid.
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The bull market is on the verge of accomplishing what four of the past seven could not Â surviving to at least the start of Year 5.
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Stockland, Australia&#39;s fourth-biggest property trust, offered to buy General Property Trust for A$7.5 billion ($5.7 billion) in stock in an attempt to foil a rival bid by Lend Lease Corp.
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Ahold, the Dutch super-market group, took another step along its &quot;road to recovery&quot; on Thursday after the sale of two retail subsidiaries for $660m to a private US equity group.
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Some of Australia&#39;s biggest property interests have placed their shares under a trading halt amid speculation of further major consolidation in the sector.
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Leading shares ended the session firmer, having flirted with fresh six-year highs, as BAE Systems experienced a surge of seven percent.
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Banks led European equities lower on Friday, but bid activity helped keep the market afloat after Nasdaq made an offer for Stockholm bourse operator OMX.
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The Nasdaq reveals a Â£2.7bn  hostile takeover bid for the London Stock Exchange.
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Deutsche Boerse AG, Europe&#39;s largest stock exchange by market value, made a 1.35 billion-pound ($2.6 billion) takeover offer for London Stock Exchange Plc, its second attempt in five years to buy the UK company.