Harrah's reportedly accepts $16.7b buyout bid
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Harrah's Entertainment Inc. , the world's largest casino company, has agreed to a $16.7 billion buyout offer from two private equity groups, two people with knowledge of the negotiations said.
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Australia's national carrier Qantas Airways was expected to announce it has accepted an improved takeover offer worth around 8.7 billion US dollars from a private equity consortium, reports said.
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Harrah's Entertainment Inc. HET.N  and Caesars Entertainment Inc. CZR.N on Monday said they have  agreed to sell four casinos for $1.24 billion to privately held  Colony Capital in a deal aimed to cut anti-trust concerns for  Harrah's planned $5 billion takeover of Caesars.
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Harrah's Entertainment Inc. , the world's biggest casino operator, on Monday said it had received a $15 billion buyout offer from private equity firms Apollo Management and Texas Pacific Group. , sending shares of the whole gaming sector up sharply.
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BlackRock Inc., the largest publicly traded US mutual-fund company, agreed to buy the investment unit of Quellos Group LLC for as much as $1.7 billion, more than doubling its hedge-fund assets.
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With Penn National reportedly considering a bid for Harrah's, it seems likely Harrah's will in fact get sold.
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Harrah's Entertainment Inc. ,  the world's biggest casino operator, on Monday said it has  received a $15 billion buyout offer from private equity firms  Apollo Management and Texas Pacific Group. .
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Bank of New York Co.  said on Monday it will buy Mellon Financial Corp.  for $16.5 billion, combining two storied names in American finance to create a powerhouse in custody services for institutional investors and one of the biggest asset managers.
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Home improvement retailer Home Depot  Inc said on Monday that under a tender offer that expired on  August 31, it agreed to buy 289.331 million shares of its  common stock for a total value of $10.7 billion.
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Station Casinos Inc.  has accepted a revised buyout offer valued at about $5.5 billion from a group that includes the company's founding family and real-estate firm Colony Capital LLC, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Unusual options activity pegged to the shares of Harrah's Entertainment Inc.  ahead of the announcement of a buyout offer for the gambling operator is raising eyebrows among some market options players.
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French-Spanish tobacco company Altadis has accepted a takeover bid from Britain&#39;s Imperial Tobacco valuing the company at 16.2 billion euros (22.4 billion dollars), Imperial Tobacco announced here Wednesday.
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Harrah's Entertainment Inc., the world's biggest casino operator, on Monday said it received a $15 billion buyout offer from private equity firms Apollo Management and Texas Pacific Group..
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Harrah's Entertainment Inc. ,  the world's largest casino operator, on Monday said it would  acquire Barbary Coast Hotel and Casino from Boyd Gaming Corp.   in exchange for 24 acres of land on the Las Vegas  Strip.
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The board of Harrah's Entertainment  Inc.  is considering two bids, each offering around $16  billion for the casino company, according to a report on the  Wall Street Journal's Web site on Friday.
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US phone company SBC  Communications agrees to buy its former parent AT&T for about $16bn (Â£8.5bn).
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Technology products retailer CDW agreed to a private equity buyout worth 7.3 billion dollars in the latest in a wave of takeovers.