SNS to buy AXA Dutch operations for $2.35 bln
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Dutch financial group SNS Reaal   said on Monday it will acquire the Dutch insurance  operations of France&#39;s AXA  for 1.75 billion euros  ($2.35 billion), which will be partly funded by an equity  issue.
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Nasdaq, the largest electronic stock market in America, agreed Friday to buy OMX, the operator of seven Nordic and Baltic exchanges, for $3.7 billion.
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Dutch financial group SNS Reaal  is to buy the Dutch insurance operations of France's AXA  for 1.75 billion euros ($2.35 billion) to double its domestic market share and save costs.
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European insurance giant Axa has withdrawn its Aust. $3.4 billion ($2.48 billion) offer for the 48.3 percent of Axa Asia Pacific Holdings it doesn&#39;t own after independent directors
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Nasdaq Stock Market  has agreed to buy Nordic bourse owner OMX  for $3.7 billion, they said on Friday, as Nasdaq seeks to expand abroad following a series of rival stock market mergers.
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Carlsberg and Heineken on Friday finally agreed a cash bid of 7.8 billion pounds ($15.3 billion) to buy and break up Scottish and Newcastle (S&N) to boost the Danish brewer's position in Russia and the Dutch group's presence in western Europe.
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Nokia Siemens Networks  (NSN)  said on Wednesday it had agreed to buy Britain's Apertio Ltd  for about 140 million euros ($205 million) and expects to close  the deal in the first quarter of 2008.
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LONDON -- The Royal Dutch/Shell Group said Wednesday that it would sell as much as $12 billion in assets, spend $45 billion on new projects and consider some acquisitions as it tries to bolster oil and gas production.
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Dutch chemical group Akzo Nobel NV   said on Monday it is selling its  pharmaceutical unit Organon BioSciences to Schering-Plough   for 11 billion euros ($14.5 billion).
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The Netherlands, Europe&#39;s third-largest gas producer, agreed to pay 2.78 billion euros ($3.55 billion) to buy the natural gas pipeline stakes of Royal/Dutch Shell Group and Exxon Mobil Corp.
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LONDON : Royal Dutch/Shell and Esso Nederlands, a division of ExxonMobil, announced the sale of transport activities in gas joint venture Gasunie to the Dutch government for 2.78 billion euros (3.
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BAE Systems North America Inc. will buy DigitalNet Holdings Inc., for about $600 million, including DigitalNetâs $93.25 million debt, the two companies announced Saturday.
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Energy giant Shell is to sell its stake in the pipeline unit of Dutch gas firm Gasunie to the Dutch government. Both Shell and ExxonMobil are selling their stakes, with the Dutch government paying 2.78bn euros ($3.
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PARIS (Dow Jones)--French insurance company AXA SA (AXA) said Monday the collapse of plans to buy out minority shareholders in its Australian business, AXA Asia Pacific
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Independent power producer Dynegy Inc.   DYN.N said on Friday it agreed to pay over $2 billion in   stock and cash for the merchant power plant portfolio of   private equity fund LS Power Group, which will have a 40   percent stake in the combined company.
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BAE Systems will agree to sell its 20 percent stake in Airbus to the Franco-German aerospace firm EADS for 1.9 billion pounds (2.8 billion euros, 3.6 billion dollars).
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Britain&#39;s Imperial Tobacco   agreed to buy Franco-Spanish rival Altadis  on  Wednesday in a 16.2 billion euros ($22.4 billion) deal that  includes debt.