Lewis buys 7% Bear Stearns stake
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Billionaire UK investor Joseph Lewis spends $860m buying a 7% stake in struggling US bank Bear Stearns.
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NEW YORK, November 16  - Hollinger Inc (HL1R.BER) has proposed to buy the shares owned by minority shareholders at a price of C$7.
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Bear Stearns Cos. Inc.  on Friday said it would provide up to $3.2 billion in financing for a struggling hedge fund it manages, raising concern about other funds that invested in bonds linked to subprime mortgages.
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Bank of America Corp.  on  Friday said it awarded Chief Executive Kenneth Lewis $11.07  million of restricted stock as part of his compensation for  2006, when the No. 2 U.S. bank's profit rose 28 percent to a  record.
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BBVA  took a fresh step toward its long-held ambition to grow in the United States on Friday when it said it had agreed to buy U.S. bank Compass Bancshares Inc  for $9.6 billion.
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Bear Stearns Cos. Inc.  on Friday said it would provide up to $3.2 billion in financing for a struggling hedge fund it manages, and said a second fund that took greater risk is still working out a restructuring plan with creditors.
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NEW YORK/SHANGHAI  - Bear Stearns Cos, the U.S. investment bank battered by slumping mortgage markets, and China's CITIC Securities Co have agreed to swap stakes in each other and form a broad alliance, the firms said on Monday.
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Reclusive billionaire Joseph C. Lewis, who made his fortune trading currencies, has taken a 7 percent stake in Bear Stearns Cos Inc , snapping up the investment bank's sagging stock to become one of its largest shareholders in less than a month.
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Morgan Stanley's  real estate unit agreed to buy Australia's Investa Properties Ltd.  for A$4.7 billion ($3.9 billion) on Thursday, the nation's third-largest property trust takeover.
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Shareholders of the company approved a $19.5 billion buyout on Tuesday, more than 10 months after the deal was proposed.
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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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Billionaire investor Carl Icahn and a group of investors are opposing yet another corporate takeover. The investors, led by Icahn, have accumulated a 7 percent stake in Mylan Laboratories Inc.
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Investment bank Goldman Sachs  has  made a bid approach of about 700 million pounds ($1.4 billion)  for reinsurance broker Benfield , the Daily Telegraph  said on Friday.
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Bear Stearns Cos. (BSC.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Tuesday said its asset management arm agreed to buy Cigna Corp.&#39;s (CI.N: Quote, Profile, Research) TimesSquare Capital Management Inc.
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Spain's BBVA has agreed to buy U.S. bank Compass Bancshares Inc. for $9.6 billion in cash and shares, realizing a long-held goal to gain a solid footing in the United States.
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Boeing Co  said on Monday it would buy up to $7 billion of its own stock, one of the plane-maker's largest repurchase plans on record, but kept its cash dividend unchanged.
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New York&#39;s JP Morgan Chase is buying a majority stake in Highbridge Capital Management, a hedge fund, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.