Dow Chemical up on buyout report from tabloid
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Shares of Dow Chemical Co.  on  Monday soared 8 percent a day after a report in the U.K.-based  tabloid Sunday Express newspaper said the company could be a  target of a leveraged buyout.
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Stocks were poised to open higher on Monday, boosted by deal news including a report that BHP Billiton has revived plans for a $40 billion takeover of aluminum producer Alcoa Inc. .
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Stocks rose on Tuesday, with the Dow industrials leading the gains, amid speculation that aluminum maker Alcoa Inc.  may be the subject of international takeover bids.
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NEW YORK - Tribune Co. , the US newspaper publisher being taken private, rose in New York Stock Exchange trading on optimism billionaire financier Sam Zell will get regulatory approval to complete the $8.2 billion buyout.
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Wall Street stocks rose on Monday after a spate of deal-making and a capital injection at Merrill Lynch helped spur a pre-Christmas rally on Wall Street.
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I think a deal between News Corp. and Dow Jones would bode well for Wall Street Journal readers.
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By Alejandro Bodipo-Memba, Detroit Free Press  Feb. 26--Speculation over the possible sale of Dow Chemical Co. to a group of private equity investors for as much as $54 billion sent the company's stock up 6% close to noon Monday.
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Stocks rose on Monday as stronger-than-expected profits in the pharmaceutical sector and news of a takeover in the oil services industry fueled a rebound from Friday's sell-off.
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NEW YORK -- Shares of Dow Jones &amp; Co. rose after the Wall Street Journal reported Pearson PLC may make an offer for the company to counter Rupert Murdoch's $5 billion bid.
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Shares of newspaper publisher  Pulitzer Inc. PTZ.N jumped as much as 18 percent on Monday  after it said it hired Goldman Sachs as a financial adviser to  explore strategic alternatives, including a possible sale.
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The company, which closed a $5.6 billion deal to buy Dow Jones & Company in December, said quarterly profit increased to $832 million, or 27 cents a share.
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U.S. stocks traded higher on  Wednesday, with shares of drugmaker Merck & Co. MRK.N helping  to boost the Dow after its 2005 forecast offered relief to some  investors on Wall Street.
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Dow Chemical Co.&#39;s third-quarter earnings soared 86 percent to beat Wall Street forecasts, thanks largely to its ability to boost prices at a faster rate than the surging costs it paid for energy and other feedstock material.
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Dow Jones & Co Inc shareholders voted  to approve a $5.6 billion buyout by News Corp on Thursday,  giving Rupert Murdoch control of one of the world's most  influential newspapers, the Wall Street Journal.
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Stocks rose on Thursday after a Wall Street Journal report that Bank of America  is in talks to buy mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp  sent financial stocks higher.
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Shares of Dow Jones were up today after the family that controls the company announced it would consider selling the company.
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Media & professional: Rupert Murdoch has succeeded with his Â£2.5bn bid for Dow Jones, the Business magazine reports on its website.