Goldcorp to buy Glamis for about $8.6 billion
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Canada's Goldcorp Inc. G.TO said on   Thursday it will acquire U.S.-based Glamis Gold Ltd. for about   US$8.6 billion in stock, a deal that will push it firmly into   the ranks of senior producers.
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Regional US telecommunications group Alltel announced it had agreed to buy Western Wireless Corp. for about six billion dollars in cash and stock.
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Vulcan Materials Co. , a maker of highway construction materials, said on Monday it agreed to buy Florida Rock Industries Inc.  in a cash and stock deal worth around $4.6 billion.
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Wachovia said on Thursday that it would buy A.G. Edwards for $6.8 billion in cash and stock, forming the second-largest retail stock brokerage firm in the United States after Merrill Lynch.
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CALGARY (CP) - A subsidiary of South African miner Gold Fields Ltd. has bought 14.4 per cent of the shares of Comaplex Minerals Corp.
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TORONTO (CP) - Glamis Gold of Reno, Nev., is planning a takeover bid for Goldcorp Inc. of Toronto - but only if Goldcorp drops its $2.4-billion-Cdn offer for another Canadian firm, made in early December.
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British pharmaceutical group GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has said that it had agreed to buy antibody therapy developer Domantis for 230 million pounds (339 million euros, 451 million dollars) in cash.
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Harmony Gold Mining Co., the biggest miner of South African gold, made a hostile offer to buy Gold Fields Ltd. for 52.9 billion rand ($8.
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Iamgold, a Canadian mining company, said that it would buy Cambior, a rival, for about 1.33 billion Canadian dollars ($1.2 billion) in stock, to create a gold mining operation with more than one million ounces of annual production. The deal will push Iamgold to the top of the midtier gold producers and comes six months after the miner bought Gallery Gold of Australia. ÂWe believe it sets the stage for us to join the senior ranks as we move forward in this company,Â IamgoldÂs chief executive, Joe Conway, left, said.
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Bear Stearns Cos. BSC.N on Tuesday  said its asset management arm agreed to buy Cigna Corp.'s  CI.N TimesSquare Capital Management Inc. bond business, which  oversees $6 billion of assets for pension plans and other  institutional investors.
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RENO-- Vancouver-based Goldcorp and Toronto gold-producer Wheaton River Minerals have scheduled a telephone conference Monday morning to announced that Goldcorp will buy Wheaton River for $2.09 billion in stock.
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Miner Harmony Gold can cut costs at takeover target Gold Fields Ltd. by up to $178.4 million and restrict job losses at its head office, senior management and service level, the firm said Thursday.
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Private equity group Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.  said on Monday that it will acquire discount retailer Dollar General Corp.  for $22 a share in cash, or about $6.9 billion.
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G.E. said it agreed to sell its advanced materials business for about $3.8 billion and use the income to expand its industrial division.
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Dec. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Gold Fields Limited (NYSE:GFI) announces that it has purchased, through its indirect wholly-owned subsidiary Orogen Holdings (BVI) Limited, 5,200,000 common shares of Comaplex Minerals Corp .
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Australian property group Investa agrees to be bought by US investment giant Morgan Stanley for $3.9bn.
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- South African mining group Harmony (UK:HRM) said it would &quot;shortly post&quot; a proposed $8.1 billion, stock-based takeover of South African miner Gold Fields (GFI) .