Babcock revises $2.2 bln NorthWestern bid
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Australia&#39;s Babcock & Brown  Infrastructure Ltd.  made a revised takeover offer for  U.S. utility NorthWestern Energy Corp.  after a  regulator blocked its initial US$2.2 billion bid on concerns  the deal was not in the interests of customers.
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MINNEAPOLIS - Pilots for Northwest Airlines Corp. said Thursday that negotiators have agreed to $265 million in concessions. As part of the tentative agreement, Northwest managers agreed to $35 million in concessions of their own.
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The Barrick Gold Corporation has conceded defeat in its attempt to take over NovaGold Resources, saying that only about 14.8 percent of NovaGold shares had been deposited in its $1.7 billion hostile bid. Barrick, the worldÂs biggest gold producer, raised its cash offer once, to $16 a share, and extended it six times. But NovaGold fought back, spurning the bid as being too low.
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The Commerce DepartmentÂs revised estimates for the third quarter show gross national product expanding at a 2.2 percent annual rate.
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Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings raised its bid for CBOT Holdings, parent of the Chicago Board of Trade, for the second time in five weeks, adding a $485 million dividend to its earlier $10.19 billion proposal.
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Investment bank Goldman Sachs  has  made a bid approach of about 700 million pounds ($1.4 billion)  for reinsurance broker Benfield , the Daily Telegraph  said on Friday.
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Business & money: Royal Bank of Scotland tells shareholders to expect a revised bid for ABN Amro.
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Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc  moved  back into pole position in the race for Croatian drugmaker  Pliva  on Monday after unveiling a revised $2.5 billion  takeover offer that trumped a bid from Actavis .
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Linx Printing Technologies says it is backing a 86 million pound takeover offer by US firm Danaher after a rival, lower, bidder withdrew.
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Chemicals maker to repurchase $2B of its shares.
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Salvaging a deal that appeared dead earlier this week, the regional bank PNC Financial Services Group Inc. struck an agreement to pay about $642 million in cash and stock for Riggs Bank, an old-line Washington institution that ran into legal trouble over suspicious financial transactions.
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Bausch & Lomb Inc.  on Tuesday requested that rival Advanced Medical Optics Inc.  revise its unsolicited $4.23 billion bid to buy the eye care company, which plans to instead accept Warburg Pincus' $3.67 billion offer.
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The board of Northern Rock, leading an in-house bid to rescue the bank, revises its proposal.
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A Canadian steel maker, Ipsco, said it was buying the NS Group, a maker of steel pipes and tubes used in oil fields, for about $1.46 billion. The deal will be used to broaden IpscoÂs sales to the energy industry, the chief executive, David Sutherland, said. ÂThis is a transaction thatÂs all about growth, and if anything, what we will see over the next three years is a growth in the output of all of their facilities, as well as the continuing demand on our own,Â Mr. Sutherland said in a conference call. Ipsco agreed to pay $66 a share for the NS Group, which was a 43 percent premium to its closing price on Friday. After the transaction is complete, the new company is expected to have combined annual revenue of more than $4 billion. Ipsco, which is based in Regina, Saskatchewan, and has executive offices in Leslie, Ill., operates three steel mills and six pipe mills in the United States and Canada. The NS Group is based in Newport, Ky.
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MINNEAPOLIS -- The hurt that the Minnesota Golden Gophers put on Northwestern was not limited to the scoreboard Saturday night at the Metrodome.
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Investment bank Goldman Sachs  has made a bid approach of about 700 million pounds ($1.4 billion) for reinsurance broker Benfield , the Daily Telegraph said on Friday.
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The board of Northern Rock has submitted a revised offer to buy out the troubled British bank, upping the amount of money it is prepared to pump in, it said Friday.