California insurance commissioner OKs Anthem-WellPoint merger
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LOS ANGELES California&#39;s insurance regulator has dropped his objections to a 16-point-four (b) billion dollar deal to create the nation&#39;s largest health insurance company.
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LONDON/NEW YORK  - Cantor Fitzgerald LP plans to merge its eSpeed Inc.  affiliate and BGC Partners unit in a $1.3 billion transaction, combining a bond brokerage that processes trades electronically with one that does business over the phone.
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Federal regulators approved the $41 billion purchase of AT&amp;T Wireless by Cingular Wireless, a crucial step in a merger that will create the nation&#39;s largest cellphone company.
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WellPoint Inc., the second-biggest provider of health insurance in the United States, said Larry C. Glasscock will retire as chief executive and be replaced by Angela F. Braly, an executive vice president since 2005.
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The $41 billion merger between Cingular Wireless LLC and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. won approval from the Federal Communications Commission Friday, according to federal sources close to the agency.  -The Washington Post
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Though California regulators have signed off on the merger between WellPoint Health Networks Inc. and Anthem Inc., states that had approved the deal months ago may raise new concerns based on the settlement terms here.
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Anthem Inc. (ATH.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and WellPoint Health Networks Inc. (WLP.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Tuesday sealed their $16.5 billion merger, creating the biggest health
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Sprint and Nextel announced today that their boards of directors have unanimously approved a &#39;definitive agreement&#39; for a merger of equals creating the third-largest US mobile phone carrier.
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California&#39;s insurance commissioner on Tuesday ended his opposition to Anthem Inc.&#39;s (ATH.N: Quote, Profile, Research) proposed $16.
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The &#36;41 billion merger between Cingular Wireless LLC and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. won approval from the Federal Communications Commission yesterday, according to federal sources close to the agency, paving the way for major changes in the lucrative wireless-phone market.
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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's universal health coverage plan came one step closer to law Sunday.  At the Republican state party convention the governor's proposals twice survived potentially fatal attacks by the conservative wing, the San Jose Mercury News reported.
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California's insurance commissioner approved a $16.4 billion merger creating the nation's largest health insurance company yesterday, after saying he had wrung hundreds of millions of dollars out of the companies involved that would be used to improve healthcare in the state.
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WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi said he dropped his opposition Tuesday to the merger of Wellpoint Health Networks and Anthem, adding the two health insurance giants met his criteria in order to complete the deal.
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Anthem&#39;s yearlong effort to buy WellPoint Health Networks is now focused on Georgia, where the insurance commissioner says he wants cash concessions like those given in California.
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Anthem Inc. ATH.N and WellPoint  Health Networks Inc. WLP.N on Tuesday sealed their $16.5  billion merger, creating the biggest health insurance company  in the United States with 28 million members.
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Boards of directors at Telecom Italia SpA and its mobile unit Telecom Italia Mobile SpA on Sunday approved the companies' merger, they said in a statement.
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Cingular Wireless today announced it has completed its previously announced merger with AT&amp;T Wireless, creating the nation&#39;s biggest wireless carrier with the