PSEG stock soars amid report of merger talks
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the Newark-based parent of energy giant PSE&amp;G - soared Friday on a report that Chicago-based Exelon was in advanced discussions to buy the company in a $12 billion stock deal.
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Media & professional: Â· Report shows corporation surpassed savings targets  Â· Group income goes up 5% on top of licence fee rise
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Wilson Bowden shares surge to a record high after the UK builder says that a number of companies are interested in buying it.
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Speculation of a British bid for Societe  Generale, in the face of French opposition to a foreign  takeover, pushed shares in SocGen up sharply on Wednesday  nearly two weeks after it was plunged into a rogue trading  scandal.
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The price of shares in BSkyB surged here on Wednesday after the British satellite broadcaster revealed impressive fourth-quarter subscriber growth, dealers said.
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Mergers &amp; acquisitions activity drove European stock markets to their highest level in more than six years on Tuesday morning.
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The Standard & Poor's 500 index  hit a lifetime high in late-session trading on Friday as stocks rose on news that General Electric Co  increased a stock-buyback plan and a report showed consumer sentiment rose in early July.
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Shares of SuperGen Inc. SUPG.O  jumped more than 24 percent in trading before the market opened  on Wednesday after MGI Pharma Inc. MOGN.O said it would take  a $40 million stake in the company as part of a cancer drug  license deal.
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Oracle&#39;s (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ) $10.3 billion blockbuster acquisition of PeopleSoft (nasdaq: PSFT - news - people ) is already yesterday&#39;s news.
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Retailer Woolworths sees its shares rise more than 20% after private equity group Apax says it is considering a takeover bid.
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Shares of medical device maker Guidant Corp. jumped on Tuesday after a report saying the company was in advanced talks to be acquired by health products maker Johnson & Johnson  for more than &#36;24 billion.
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NEW YORK : US share prices surged on Wednesday as bargain hunting and news of a peace deal in the Iraqi city of Najaf overcame all-time high oil prices and weak demand for the Google share float.
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European stocks were higher on Monday as fresh merger talk emerged, boosting the likes of EDP (NYSE:EDP), the Portuguese power generator and Ahold, the Dutch retailer.
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tocks rose yesterday amid heavy trading on the first day of the fourth quarter as PeopleSoft and chip-related stocks sent the Nasdaq to its highest level in more than two months.
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Shares of medical device maker Guidant  Corp. GDT.N jumped on Tuesday after a report saying the  company was in advanced talks to be acquired by health products  maker Johnson & Johnson JNJ.N for more than $24 billion.
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Shares in global news and information  provider Reuters Group Plc rose to their highest level since  April after a report Thursday that the firm may sell its U.S.  electronic trading subsidiary, dealers said.
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Shares in BiogenIdec (BIIB:Nasdaq - news - research) and Elan (ELN:NYSE - news - research)rose early Monday after the companies released what they described as &quot;compelling&quot; phase III test results for their multiple sclerosis drug Antegren.