Ratner 'to bid Â£350m for Signet'
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Gerald Ratner is set to table an improved bid of Â£350m for the UK operations of jewllery company Signet.
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- Harry Dobson, the Scottish mining millionaire who owns a 6.5 percent stake in Manchester United (UK:MNU) , told Scotland&#39;s Herald newspaper that he has been approached about selling his stake by brokers who may have been acting on
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Business & money: Â· Scant detail 'designed to antagonise', says analystÂ· Debt suspected to have soared to Â£300m
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Brookfield Asset Management made a cash offer worth 4.2 billion Australian dollars ($3.55 billion) for Multiplex, a troubled developer and contractor.
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Media & professional: Staff get help from US billionaire Ron Burkle to fend off Rupert Murdoch's $5bn (Â£2.5bn) takeover bid.
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The chancellor is to announce plans to make way for a private sector buyout of Northern Rock.
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If the proposed merger of the regulatory operations of NASD and the New York Stock Exchange is completed, every NASD members will receive a $35,000 payment.
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The successful bidder for the lucrative East Coast main line rail franchise will be forced to pay up to five times more to the Treasury for the privilege of running the route, The Independent understands.
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A bidding consortium led by the Royal Bank of Scotland is expected to give some insight as to whether it will go ahead with a rival offer.
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Deutsche Boerse AG, Europe&#39;s largest stock exchange by market value, made a 1.35 billion-pound ($2.6 billion) takeover offer for London Stock Exchange Plc, its second attempt in five years to buy the UK company.
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A corporate dealmaker and former Tory Party treasurer is reportedly planning a Â£5bn takeover bid for struggling supermarket chain Sainsbury&#39;s.
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Time Warner Inc.'s New Line Cinema  unit is expected to announce on Wednesday a $350 million  film-financing deal with the Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc,  The Wall Street Journal reported.
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ONE of the UK&#39;s biggest industrial companies is set for Mexican ownership after agreeing to a Â£2.3bn takeover offer. Directors of Egham-based RMC - the world&#39;s largest ready-mixed concrete producer - have
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Luqman Arnold, chief executive of Abbey National, is likely to walk away with Â£5.2m if the bank is sold to Banco Santander Central Hispano.
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Lazard, the 156-year-old investment bank, aims to raise up to $850m (Â£440m) in an initial public offering, it revealed last night.
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MUMBAI: Media moghul and billionaire chairman of News Corp Rupert Murdoch has, according to agency reports, offered to buy a penthouse in New York&#39;s upscale Manhattan area for cool $44 million.
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Liverpool are reported to have made on offer of Â£3.5m bid for Real Madrid striker Fernando Morientes, according to the BBC. However, the Anfield club are likely to have to increase their offer to around Â£5m