CP Rail to buy DM&E for at least $1.48 billion
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Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd   said it planned to buy the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad  Corp for at least $1.48 billion to expand its network and  increase its access to U.S. Midwest markets.
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Japanese auto parts maker Asahi Tec Corp.  (5606.T) said on Friday its board will decide on the  acquisition of U.S. rival Metaldyne Corp. later in the day, in  a deal worth about $1.3 billion.
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LONDON  - Kidde PLC, the British fire and safety company, said Thursday it had agreed to a 1.4-billion-pound (&#36;2.8-billion-US) takeover by United Technologies Corp.
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Global Tower Partners, a U.S. wireless tower operator, is to be bought by a consortium of infrastructure funds managed by members of Australia's Macquarie Group in a deal valued at $1.4 billion.
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French geological services group CGG has said that it would buy US-based rival Veritas DGC for 3.1 billion dollars (2.4 billion euros) to create a world leader in the booming oil and gas services sector.
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Dubai Ports International is buying the foreign port operations of US railroad company CSX Corp. for $1.15 billion in cash, the companies announced Thursday.
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Intuit plans to buy the Digital Insight Corporation for $1.35 billion, a move that will expand it into online banking software and services.
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PQ Corp., the specialty chemicals business, said on Friday it was being sold to private equity buyout firm Carlyle Group  for $1.5 billion.
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Eastman Kodak EK.N on Monday said it  agreed to buy printing technology firm Creo Inc. CRE.TO for  about $980 million to bolster its strategy to push more  aggressively into the commercial printing business.
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French oilfield services group Compagnie  Generale de Geophysique is to buy Texas-based Veritas DGC Inc.  in a $3.1 billion deal to merge their seismic businesses, the  companies said on Tuesday.
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The real estate arm of diversified  conglomerate General Electric Co.  agreed on Wednesday to  buy a $2.2 billion portfolio of U.S. industrial, residential  and commercial properties, but said it would sell some retail  properties to another investor.
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General Electric Co. (GE.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Monday said it would buy a fire detection systems business from SPX Corp.
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Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd  has agreed to buy the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad Corp (DM&E) for at least $1.5 billion in cash to boost its network and provide the deep pockets to fund a project to gain access to the coal-rich Powder River Basin.
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The Exelon Corporation, the owner of utilities in northern Illinois and eastern Pennsylvania, said yesterday that it would buy the Public Service Enterprise Group of New Jersey in a deal valued
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General Electric Co. GE.N on Monday  said it would buy a fire detection systems business from SPX  Corp. SPW.N for nearly $1.4 billion in cash in a move to  bolster its building and security systems unit.
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The insurance giant will buy Travelers Life & Annuity, and most of Citigroup's foreign insurance units, for $11.5 billion.
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Colorado Springs-based Westmoreland Coal Co. (AMEX: WLB) will buy LG&amp;E Energy&#39;s 50 percent stake in a North Carolina power project for $125 million.