Fairfax H1 says no takeover approaches
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Australian newspaper publisher John Fairfax Holdings Ltd.  said its first-half net profit fell 2.7 percent amid tough conditions in some markets and as it made acquisitions to deter potential predators.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard has denied he had made a deal to hand over power to his ambitious Treasurer Peter Costello ahead of elections next year.
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Retailer Woolworths rejects a takeover offer from private equity group Apax, saying it is too low.
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Software giant denies abusing its market position and says it has no intention of unbundling IE and Windows.
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South Korea's SK Telecom denied reports that it is preparing a takeover bid for Sprint Nextel.
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US equity fund Newbridge Capital Ltd., which is selling Korea First Bank, yesterday postponed its anouncement of a preferred bidder, indicating that it is having difficulty setting the sale price with HSBC Holdings Plc and Standard Chartered Plc.
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Mayor Adrian M. Fenty said today that no deal has been struck to use public funds to build a professional soccer stadium in Southeast Washington. He also said his talks with D.C. United about a partnership do not represent a drastic departure from his stance against public financing of the Nationals...
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ABN AMRO  stuck to its neutral stance on Sunday on competing takeover bids for the Dutch bank, saying it could not support a break-up under the financially superior RBS-led  consortium's bid.
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Vodafone Group PLC on Monday denied a newspaper report it is considering making a $160 billion bid for its U.S. partner in the wireless phone business, Verizon Communications Inc.
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Verizon Communications has no imminent plans to bid for Sprint, people familiar with the situation said Tuesday, lifting a potential obstacle to Sprint&#39;s bid for Nextel Communications.
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MELBOURNE (Dow Jones)--Australian diversified nickel producer WMC Resources Ltd. (WMC) on Wednesday said it hasn&#39;t received any new takeover proposals.
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England-based Vodafone Group Plc yesterday denied a report that it was backing partner company Verizon in a bid to block the possible merger between Sprint and Nextel, which analysts expected to be announced today.
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update Verizon Communications has no imminent plans to bid for Sprint, people familiar with the situation said Tuesday, toppling a potential obstacle to Sprint&#39;s $37.8 billion bid for Nextel Communications.
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OPPOSITION Leader Mark Latham had told his first big lie of the election campaign by saying Labor had no plans to introduce a national payroll tax, Prime Minister John Howard said today.
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Vodafone Group on Monday denied a newspaper report it is considering making a $160 billion bid for its U.S. partner in the wireless phone business, Verizon Communications.
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Australia&#39;s competition watchdog has no plan to stop a bid by a consortium including gas retailer Alinta Ltd for Western Australia&#39;s biggest natural gas transmission pipeline.
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Business & money: Bradford & Bingley says it is not planning a bid for any part of the stricken bank