S&amp;N to buy 37.5 per cent of UB
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MUMBAI: Scottish &amp; Newcastle Plc (S&amp;N), Britain&#39;s biggest brewer, has agreed to buy 37.5 per cent of India&#39;s beer giant United Breweries (UB) Ltd for Rs 466 crore, the two companies announced on Sunday.
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The cash advancer's stock opens 37% above its initial price.
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American engineering group United Technologies (UTC) yesterday moved a step closer to buying fire extinguisher maker Kidde. Kidde confirmed it was planning to open its books to UTC after receiving a revised 165p-a-share offer from the group.
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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- UK bank Barclays said Wednesday it has agreed to buy credit-card issuer Juniper Financial from Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce for $293 million in cash.
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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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London equities progressed by midday Wednesday, pushed by strong gains in the mining sector following a Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) note on metals prices. Retailers like J Sainsbury remained in focus one day after Tesco issued a somber results statement that sent its stock down nearly 5 per cent.
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By Julia Kollewe in London and Renee Bonorchis in Johannesburg. Barclays, the bank that pulled out of South Africa in 1986 after protests during the apartheid era, said yesterday it was in talks to buy a majority
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Surge follows details of government's plan to convert Â£24bn of loans into bonds
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UBS said Tuesday that it would buy Charles Schwab&#39;s market making, research and institutional trading unit for $265 million in cash.
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Backpedaling from a recent expansion, Charles Schwab Corp. is selling an institutional investment and research division to Swiss banking giant UBS AG for $265 million, another step in the struggling stock brokerage&#39;s push to regain its Main Street appeal.
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BHP Billiton, the world&#39;s biggest miner, will buy back as much as A$1.5 billion ($1.6 billion) of its Australian stock as part of a plan to return profit from soaring commodity prices to investors.
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Business & money: Â· Credit crunch creates Â£210bn backlog of buyouts Â· US sub-prime crisis claims more jobs and firms
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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.
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Commerzbank , which has been persistently cited as a possible takeover target, jumped 2.2 percent to 37.8 euros, its highest in nearly seven years on market talk Citigroup  was likely to bid about 45 euros a share for the bank.
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Bank of England expected to push rates up to 5.75%.
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MELBOURNE: BHP Billiton Ltd/Plc, the world&#39;s largest diversified miner, said yesterday it would buy back up to A$1.5bil of its Australia-listed shares at a discount to the market price.
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SYDNEY A fund managed by Macquarie Bank, Australia&#39;s largest investment bank, said Thursday that it had agreed to buy NTL&#39;s transmission towers in Britain for Â£1.27 billion, or $2.47 billion.