BBVA builds U.S. muscle with $9.6 bln Compass buy
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BBVA has agreed to buy U.S. bank Compass Bancshares Inc. for $9.6 billion, the Spanish bank said on Friday, realizing a long-held ambition to gain a firm footing in the United States.
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Wachovia Corp. aims to increase its profile in the Northeast and Southwest by expanding its wealth-management division. The bank, based in Charlotte, said yesterday that it is buying Tanager Financial Services Inc.
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MOSCOW  - Russia's little-known BaikalFinansGroup bought the core production unit of oil giant Yukos at auction for &#36;9.3 billion US on Sunday, gaining control of one of Russia's most prized oil assets.
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Nasdaq and Borse Dubai, aiming to muscle out potential rival bidders, boosted an offer for OMX to $4.9 billion on Wednesday and pushed close to a majority stake in the Nordic exchange group.
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Spain&#39;s second-largest bank BBVA on Tuesday agreed to buy Texas-based financial services group Laredo National Bancshares for $850 million, driving further toward a long-standing goal to build up a US presence.
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BBVA bank, the second-biggest Spanish bank, said it has reached an agreement to buy Texas-based US bank Compass Bancshares for 9.6 billion US dollars (7.4 billion euros).
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Belgium&#39;s Interbrew won approval from shareholders on Friday to buy Brazil&#39;s AmBev in a deal valued at about 8 billion euros ($9.
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Bank of America Corp.  said on  Monday it completed its $3.3 billion purchase of the U.S. Trust  business from Charles Schwab Corp. , and is defying  analyst concern that it would have trouble retaining many of  U.S. Trust&#39;s ultra-wealthy clients.
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Compass Group, the world's biggest caterer, has said that net profit rose 46 percent to 285 million pounds (422 million euros, 555 million dollars) in 2005-2006, helped by disposals, and announced plans to sell its Selecta vending business.
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After weeks of anticipation, packed  road shows and massive demand, Fortress Investment Group LLC on  Thursday raised $634 million with an initial public offering,  the first such move by a diversified private equity and hedge  fund in the United States.
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U.S. bank Wachovia Corp.  on  Thursday said it would buy A.G. Edwards Inc.  for about  $6.8 billion in cash and stock to create the second-largest  retail brokerage in the United States.
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Dow Jones +36 punti base, Nasdaq +8,5, SP +4
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BlackRock Inc., the largest publicly traded US mutual-fund company, agreed to buy the investment unit of Quellos Group LLC for as much as $1.7 billion, more than doubling its hedge-fund assets.
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A consortium led by private-equity firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Texas Pacific Group is nearing a deal worth close to $45 billion for a Texas energy giant in what would be the largest leveraged buyout ever, according to a source with knowledge of the negotiations.
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Vornado raised its bid to $56 a share in cash and stock, or $41 billion, topping a bid of $54 a share from the private equity giant Blackstone Group.
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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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Australian property group Investa agrees to be bought by US investment giant Morgan Stanley for $3.9bn.